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Late Summer Garden Duties

7/30/2015

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Gardening to-do list

The flowers are in full bloom, the vegetables are producing, and the grass is growing. While you're enjoying the beauty and harvest of your gardening efforts, here's a quick list of  late summer chores:
  • Keep your container plants fed and watered.  Use a slow release fertilizer like worm castings and add extra potassium for blooms.
  • Remove faded flowers to encourage more flowering.
  • Watch out for pests like aphids.  Look for and pick off destructive caterpillars and grubs.
  • Collect seeds from healthy plants for replanting.
  • Trim and cut back shrubs and hedges.
  • It's time to plant spring-flowering bulbs.
  • Plant cold-hardy annuals now and remember to protect during the winter.
  • Mow, mow , mow.  Increase the cutter height during dry spells. Water new sod throughout the summer.   Unless it's very dry (not around here!), established lawns don't require watering.
  • Harvest your vegetables as they become ripe to encourage more production.

Above all, keep cool.  Fall's just around the corner.

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Apply VermaPlex®  during the growing season to maximize growth.  Testing shows that "micro-dosing" at each watering brings the best results.  And .5 to 1 ounce per gallon of water.

Don't forget a side dressing of worm castings!
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Purest Worm Castings For Sale

7/14/2015

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Organic Worm Castings For Sale
Raised bed garden's progress using worm castings as fertilizer.

Why Pure Black Castings™?

There are a lot of worm castings on the market.  Some are "certified organic" some are grown organically but aren't certified.  Some are more worm castings than vermicompost, some are more vermicompost than worm castings. 

Know your worm castings

When choosing a worm castings product as your fertilizer, it's important to know where a particular product falls in the above classifications.  The cost should reflect the quality of the worm castings you are purchasing and using in your gardening or farming.

Vermicompost

If the worm castings are mostly vermicompost, the price should reflect the smaller concentration of castings contained in it. Vermicompost is an excellent amendment to your garden soil, but it will require more fertilizer applications at planting time and/or be replenished quickly.  

Think of vermicompost more as a soil enhancement, adding tilth to your planting medium rather than as a fertilizer, although it does contain microbes and has fertilizer value.  Vermicompost should be relatively inexpensive and probably should be bought locally, since the shipping costs can be prohibitive (especially if it's wet).  

Worm castings with residual vermicompost material

A lot of the worm castings fertilizer you find for sale have a high concentration of worm castings but with a substantial amount of organic material (vermicompost) remaining in the product.  This higher concentration of worm castings makes for better fertilizer than the vermicompost above, but  a premium should not be charged for this fertilizer since it isn't "pure" and requires higher application rates.

Again, the shipping of un-concentrated worm castings that also contains large amounts of vermicompost is not cost effective. Before purchasing an unknown source of worm castings, it's probably wise to get a small amount or sample before getting large amounts only to find it isn't  straight castings.  Click here for a test to do for judging whether a worm castings product contains vermicompost.

Pure Worm Castings

Fertilizers that are pure castings are the most concentrated.  The process to reach this level of purity is longer and more expensive than with simply vermicompsting organic material to a certain point and bagging it up.   The application rates are lower for pure worm castings and the price should reflect this concentration. 

Certified Organic and grown organically

Whether the pure worm castings being sold are certified organic or not is another consideration.  Some castings are grown organically but lack the "certification".  They may or may not conform with the standards set.  You should not pay a premium for castings that do not have organic certification.

The certification process for fertilizers is difficult to achieve and maintain.  This certification provides a user the assurance  they are applying a truly "organic" product free of harmful  toxins and poisons and that it conforms to standards set by organic certification boards.

Pure Black Castings™

The gold standard for worm castings, Pure Black Castings™ are 99.9% pure castings with minimum moisture.  Certified organic and OMRI listed, this highly concentrated fertilizer is safe for you and the environment.

Find more information about these highly concentrated worm castings here or shop for worm castings at our store.
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