 Why I Like Worm castings? Why did I start Vermicomposting? In 2002, my family and I moved from a city life to a town life, from a zone 3 to zone 5. As in tempature wise. We were not interested in gardening, or anything associated with it. After watching my Father in law being a gardener addict, I became curious. My Father in law started to give me gardening books along with his delicious vegetables and fruits. Well that sold me. Great climate, good food, and good potential soil to work with. Our soil has sand and clay all it needs is humus. I researched on fertilizers chemical and natural and came to the conclusion natural would be my choice. I have noticed over the years as well as others, our vegetables don’t have the flavour they use to have. Sure they look good but no taste. I have used fish fertilizer, Seaweed extract, and compost. These work well But I wanted the best source of nutrients, and vitamins. So I studied on Worm pooh or Worm castings. To my surprise Worm castings has more in value all the way around. I started with one large bin and now I have several. Vermicomposting is a great way to recycle and the worm castings smell like earth, not foul. Seeing is believing and if you check out our herb garden you could see why we like Worm castings. | Outdoor Composting Surprise! For the last three Summers like many other gardeners I wanted compost for our garden.As Fall approached last year I added to the compost pile one last time. Then it was time to harvest the worm bin in the house, as I went through the castings I noticed some of the food was not totally broke down, I took the unfinished materials to the compost pile and forgot about it. The following Summer I caught the flu for four weeks, I never did much during this time as to be expected. Finally I started to feel better and thought of the devastation of our garden due to lack of care. To my surprise the garden didn’t suffer much casualties. As I turned the compost pile to my amazement I saw lots of squirmy worms, and cocoons, well this made my day. Now I’m prepping the now worm pile for the winter. There’s no joy in having the flu but In this case I’m not complaining. Robert  |
