Storage Of Worm Compost Juice
We empty and tidy our worm farm about every 3 – 4 months. We use the soil from the bottom trays in our vegetable garden which turns into a thick, dark and nutrient rich humus from all the scrap vegetable matter we added over the previous months. It is best and most easily added when we are busily planting out seeds or seedlings as we just shovel a small amount into the hole as we plant, straight where the vegetables are going to need it.
Worm Farm. Bottled worm juice fertiliser can be stored for months.
At the same time when we clean out out worm farm we tend to end up with a lot of worm juice collected in the bottom which is a watery tea colored mixture containing all the nutrients that have come out of the vegetable matter as the worms eat their way through it. This is great as a plant fertiliser. Although it is very strong and best diluted about 1:10 with water or until a light tea colour before applying to the growing vegetables.
We also store the worm juice fertiliser as we don’t need it all immediately and it keeps for a few months in bottles. We can then fertilise our vegetables every week or two easily. Many people regularly tap the worm juice from the bottom of the farm (there is a tap) and use it as they go, but we put a big effort in every 3 to 4 months and then pretty much leave the worm farm to do it’s own thing the rest of the time.
The humus component from the worm farm is great for adding microbes to the soil in the vegie patch, making sure that our soil is full of microspcopic life (as well as larger bugs and animals like worms). Humus also adds nutrients and the microbes create air holes (ensuring un-compacted soil) which all help to keep our vegetable patch soil healthy and nutrient rich to ensure we can grow as many vegetables as possible.
Worm farms are fantastic for providing organic fertiliser and avoiding the use of nasty chemicals. Also using all our vegetable scraps and stopping them going into landfill where they would just be a waste product and not used as the resource that they are.
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Try adding some sugar and aerating the worm tea for excellent compost and to encourage healthy microorganisms.
An aquarium pump works quite well. This is what I do, mostly when there is an infection about (or when someone else has an infection near by).
Thanks for the tip. I haven’t tried anything like this but understand that all the microorganisms would well and truely love (and multiply) with a bit of oxygen and sugar.
Bush Chick.