Earthworm Castings
The waste produced by worms, earthworm castings contain nutrients in a form readily absorbed by plants.
Marigolds Thrive With Earthworm Castings
by Charlie Nardozzi
Earthworms are known to be key components of healthy garden soils.
Foxfarm offers a first-rate potting soil based on earthworm castings and bat guano. Pro-mix is an indoor and outdoor potting soil made from Canadian peat moss.
To promote healthy populations of soil microorganisms, dig in compost or organic fertilizer such as alfalfa pellets sold as rabbit feed, cottonseed meal, earthworm castings or animal manure.
Earthworm castings are considered the most beneficial of all soil amendments. Here's how to set up a tri-level worm composter called the "Can O' Worms." While it's only one of many ways to "vermicompost," the basic principles apply universally.
Rising Mist Organics - Rising Mist specializes in organic products, including books, organic fertilizers, earthworm castings, red wiggler composting worms, and organic compost.
Tom is the 26-year-old founder of TerraCycle, an eco-minded company in Trenton, New Jersey that turns waste into new products. Their most prominent item is a liquid organic plant food made from earthworm castings. In other words, worm poop.
 See also: Light, Level, Fiber, Vermicomposting, Worm castings
  
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