Worm Farm Flashcards
End product of vermicompost is richer in (4)
Magnesium
Calcium
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
To prevent pathogen from contaminating food vermicompost
Age it
How long to age vermicompost
30-60 days
Don’t apply vermicompost to plant soil less than _ days before harvesting plants
30
Never spray compost extracts _
Directly on leafy green veggies
Only spray compost extracts on
Non-edible parts
30-60 day rule applies to _ as well (vermicompost)
Spraying
Don’t spray on edible parts of plants _ days before harvesting
60
Don’t spray vermicompost on plants non-edible parts _ days before harvesting
30
Use _ compost with micro greens ()
Most aged (60 days or more)
Vermicompost percentage of potting soil
5-10%
You can use _ vermicompost with seedlings
Fresh
Why use fresh vermicompost with seedlings
Because by time harvest takes place, vermicompost will be ages (60-90) days
For direct soil application (amendment) mix in _ percentage vermicompost along with compost from compost pile
10-20%
For foliage sprays, use vermicompost aged _ days
30
For spray, 1 cup 30 day old vermicompost per _ of water
Gallon
To avoid spray clogging spray bottle
Triple strain mixture using paint strainer
Place for vermicompost needs to be (2)
Warm dry 60-80f
Indoors preferably
Start bin with
Food scraps and drainage holes
On top of food scraps add
Worms
Regularly add _ to vermicompost bin
More food scraps
If you add bins on top worms will
Migrate up through holes on top bin
When worms migrate up to top bin drainage holes
They leave finished compost on bin below
Over feeding worms can
Kill them
Each week add _ food to bin
Half the weight of sun of worms
