Hands Down #1 BEST Fertilizer for Your Garden
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Don't use a water-soluble fertilizer and expect season-long NPK for your Florida vegetable garden. My preferred and highly suggested slow-release organic fertilizer is worm castings or vermicompost but this method applies to all granular soil amendments. Vermicompost is a wonderful organic npk fertilizer that also has a ton of micronutrients. This gardening 101 tutorial will show you how to quickly and easily give your vegetable plants a boost during the growing season by top dressing your plants for lasting results in your Florida garden.
0:00 Worm Castings as Fertilizer
2:12 How Often to Add Fertilizer
3:23 How to Add Worm Castings to Soil
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Short videos are the only way to go. Good job. You might talk a little about a worm tea drink and the instant kick it gives a plant.
Thank you, loved this video. Very helpful information about worm castings.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the videos I love them. I really really Love real growers recharge, and your videos have helped me to create my own version.
hurrah! so glad its been helpful.
Such great information! Thank you for sharing and creating.
Happy to be of service!
Good info ! I enjoy your FL videos... thanks for all you do 👍🏻
Glad you like them!
Me and the kiddos are getting ready to do the same thing. Thanks for the help.
you bet!
Hello, I'm in Florida as well. I'll be watching and taking notes. My husband was a strong believer in worm castings. He'd order large bags for me to use in the garden. Thanks for sharing.
Love that! It does wonders for the garden.
Even though I have been worm farming for maybe a decade I still love to watch any vids on vermicomposting. Like others I first started with totes and that was ok for a couple of yrs then I graduated to the worm factory 360 for inside my home since I just have a rather small bit of property [postage stamp] style. Even so I have a small tomato patch in which I grow giant tomatoes plus a few others. When I add casting around any plant as a top dressing I will take a forked hand tool and mix it in with the soil then water it in. Castings should considered a slow release nutrient/fert. as it will release some of its magic each time you water. You also might be amazed for what casting can do when spread around rose plant . I did this one year adding 3-4 cups and worked it in and the rose exploded in size and flowering that my neighbors noticed and commented on it. I also did an experiment one summer on 2 plants that were exactly the same and given the same soil except one of them also got worm casting. 2 month late one plant was not only larger and healthier looking but also of note were that the leaves on the WC plant were much larger more like elephant ears. Red Wigglers love fruit and of late I have been putting my eaten apple cores in my worm tray and after a couple of days worms were all over the cores. I dont make a lot of worm casting but enough that each spring I will give my brother and sister a 5 gal bucket of worm castings which they both look forward to for adding to their plants. Last summer also started doing the worm tower with buckets in a raised bed found that the 5 gal one did well but the 2 gal ones not so much.
Thank you for sharing 🙏
My pleasure
I grow in compost and add worm casting!
Love this video. Very informative, yet short and to the point. Most useful video about worm castings I have seen so far. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
When you said my fresh soil won’t be as good and I’ll have to wait years?! I will show you that is not the case if you spend huge $ to make super soils. But I agree with you regardless. Even a 7 year super soil is > a fresh one. Great video
I stumbled across your video and love your concise delivery of content. I am now a subscriber :) I would like your input regarding veg scraps, freezing them first before adding them to the worm bin. I save the scraps and freeze them till I have an ample quantity.
Thank you for subscribing, and welcome to the channel! As for freezing the food scraps that is a great way to cool down your worm bin in the heat of the summer, I'm sure your worms appreciate it!
Watching from Trinidad and Tobago.
nice!
The worm castings are fine for some of the miico nutrients and the nitrogen, but you still need to add phosphate and potassium so I am using worm castings for my indoor seedlings and also a compost ingredient. When I transplant outdoors I need compost, some worm castings but also fertilizer, especially the phosphate because I want the plants to flower.
Thank you for sharing. One Thousand Views and only 56 comments
Aunty, great content! In my yard, worm castings are the only thing I use. Because it's free! Plenty of worms in the soil. The worms Eat all the yard debris, and my kitchen scraps.
Its good stuff!
Your channel needs so many more views!! Thanks so much for all the information and you've got another subscriber :)
I live in Winter Haven, about an hour south of Orlando and I believe in the same 'growing zone' or w/e the term is as you guys in St. Petersburg- and I want to start a vegetable garden in my grandmothers backyard. She has a very large backyard that butts up against a woods, so there is always tons of organic material around that I'm sure we could use for compost or something.
How would you recommend starting a garden for relatively cheap, on top of grass? Especially if we were to start in say, January of 2020?
Thanks so much again!!!
Sheet mulching! It’s 100% free besides time of course. It’s the technique I used to cover the grass for my front yard garden. I’ll try to get a video up about that before January but you can also google info on it as well.
I'd love to know how your garden is going!
For the beginning worm farmer the most important thing is to not let your farm become anaerobic which will become foul smelling and your worms will leave and/or die. Thats what can happen with containers. In large containers or containers outside where worms can leave and come back such as worm towers thats not a problem.
Hi, I just found your channel and fairly new to raised bed gardening. When you top dress the worm casing do you water the casing area? I have soaker hoses that I turn on after sunset. Thanks for the videos
it will naturally work itself down into the soil but if you want to give it an initial watering it wouldn't hurt anything : )
Do you use worm casting for fruit trees?
How do you add it to water? I’m use to liquid fertilizer.
Thank you for the video. I was looking for answers about if my plants can just live in worm castings alone without any other organic fertilizers like manure, kelp, fish, bone or blood meals, etc.
So, is it possible to grow foods with worm castings alone?
I think so. If you are starting with a balanced pH, the castings have so much to offer!
Nice garden. 😊 I had a quick question how long does it take your tomatoes to bear fruit?
I have planted some slices a about two months ago. It has grown as far as the plant itself but no fruit 😕
Depends on the variety. Determinate and larger slicing tomatoes take longer to production. Slicers are more difficult this time of year than cherry type plants.
"Nice garden"? Am I missing something? It's probably the worst bunch of scraggly, mal-nourished and woeful bunch of plants I have ever seen.
Have you thought about doing worm farming so you can get castings and compost from that? Would you recommend that as a good option or not?
I do worm castings (haven't set it up at my new house yet but plan to do so this winter). Its not as easy as elsewhere in the country because they don't like the heat but it is absolutely doable. Ill be doing a video on it when I do set it up.
Do you know about Biochar? I have used worm casting tea to charge some. Amazing results in very poor soil.
I do. I love it : )
For containers, how often should you top dress with worm castings? Thanks!
I will usually do so once each time I replant. If they need a pick me up in between Ill do worm casting tea or fish emulsion.
Do you suggest “no dig”? If so, what should I be topping off my garden bed with? Worm castings? Compost?
Worm castings brewed into a tea can be applied directly to the leaves as a topical fertilizer for plants, and compost added onto soil is always a good idea as it is a slow release fertilizing method for your soil health
how often during a growing season do you add worm castings ?
Not often, maybe once a season or every other season.
How often do you add wormcasting to your plants? I've been adding a bit of wormcasting every week. The amount would depends on the size of the plant, but roughly 1-2 spoons or a handful of wormcasting. Am I overdoing it? But I have good result so far.
You could cut back to as often as once a month, or every other week if your plants are used to it and performing well.
I want to see how your tomato crop looked after putting that 'fertilizer....
Can I put worm casting on bottom of plant?
like touching the stem? yes it wont burn plants but the goal is to get it to the roots so out to the drip line of the plant is what we are after.
Do you ever use worm water made from the castings? If so, what are the pros and cons?
Yep, started a batch today for all my seedlings. No cons that I am aware aside from taking the time to make it rather than just buying ia different fertilizer. Pros are huge! Not only does it fertilize the plant but it also helps the plant fight fungal and disease. And it feeds the soil ecosystem.
I've been told by our local worm farm, castings basically "die" in about 24hrs,if used as a top dressing. Everything becomes inert once dried out.
You can add them to a bucket and brew a worm tea. This can be applied directly to the leaves to help fight powdery mildew and other diseases as well. I apply worm castings at the base of a plant when moving a potted plant to help the roots thrive in the new environment. When transplanting next time, try sprinkling a handful at the bottom of the whole dug before putting in your new plant. That way, when at the bottom layer of the soil and covered by the plant it is less likely to dry out
Couple of questions if you may be so kind as to lend your extensive knowledge. Going to grow tomatoes and vegetables in some 50 litre smart pots (fabric ones) I guess soil conditioning would be somewhat the same. I'm using an organic potting mix (Daltons) This includes NuFert - A BioGro certified slow release fertiliser produced by infusing nutrients into Zeolite granules. Plant roots then extract these nutrients, resulting in a more efficient uptake and stronger long term growth (there is no leaching into the soil of the NPK). . I'm thinking of mixing 2 litres of the worm castings with 48 litres of potting mix, is that okay? PLUS When I water, can I continually use a weak solution of 'Worm casting tea'? I calculate it as 2 cups to 5 gallons so that's a volume ratio of 2.5% worm casting solution. Is it okay to just constantly feed my plants this, day in day out? Many thanks. Dave
I'm not familiar with the fertilizer you mention so I'm not sure how they would interact with each other. You might want to check with the manufacturer on that one. As for constant feeding its not necessary. At most a weak solution once a week would be more than sufficient. Most plants don't even need water daily let alone fertilizer.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Agreed there’s plenty of fert.
@@MobileAura some philosophy... If you're gonna baby certain plants, is it worth the effort?
Thanks for sharing, looks like your plant need other nutrients also. Leaves are yellow
I hear the sun is bad for casting and it's a good idea to cover your top dressing with leaf compost. What say you? I have about 12 worm bins I use for castings.
mulch can go a long way to improving soil health and castings. but ive found sowing seed and top dressing in castings to still be a very beneficial process regardless of mulching.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Do you add epsom salts or is it just worm castings and nothing at all? I want to stay organic as far as I can, but some videos say Epsom Salts are still needed.
@@oldporkchops I very rarely use salts, occasionally for peppers. Castings are pretty well rounded is all that I use the vast majority of the time.
@@TheUrbanHarvest Got it. Thanks for sharing. I checked out Holganix 800. Is it a replacement to worm castings or does it complement worm castings? If it's a replacement, does it work better than worm castings?
@@oldporkchops Kind of sort of both. It depends on what your obtaining from the castings. If your just looking to build the soil ecosystem then castings and bio800 would function the same and can be used interchangeably. If you are looking for nutrients from the castings your would need to do the holganix fertilizer blend (chicken poo based). The bio800 has no nutrients in it.
Just found you unsubscribed thanks for the information also just watch the worm casting in the bathtub video
nice, glad it was helpful