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Amazing Results – Tomatoes Grown With and Without VermisTerra Tea

Misilla from Learn to Grow shares amazing results from her experiment growing tomatoes with and without VermisTerra earthworm casting tea over 4-5 weeks. She started with smaller plants, gave them tea, and they caught up with the bigger plants and outgrew them. Misilla waters them with VermisTerra tea once a week. Both sets received the same potting mix. The leaves of the ones that received tea were taller and bushier.

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Urban Farmer and Agronomist Discuss VermisTerra Its Effects

Jamil Burns, urban farmer and owner of Raised Roots interviews agronomist and nut tree expert, Peter Viss. They discuss VermisTerra products and their relationship with compost, disease, BT, bioremediation, mycorrhizae, spider mites, white flies, flavor in fruit, and fumigation.

Filmed at the Farm Expo, Tulare California, Feb 2019.

 

0:25 How can VermisTerra help with verticillium wilt?

3:45 What’s the difference between using BT vs VermisTerra?

6:30 What’s the difference between using VermisTerra tea vs a single species for bioremediation?

9:58 Will VermisTerra tea compete with organisms in the soil food web?

12:10 Will VermisTerra tea effect mycorrhizae?

14:08 Is adding compost the right solution to increasing organic matter?

17:20 Why must some farms keep adding 6” of compost to avoid pests or disease?

18:34 Can you explain how VermisTerra tea and castings affect insects like spider mites and white flies?

20:30 Will VermisTerra tea and castings give me larger fruit? Or more flavorful fruit?

25:00 Can worm castings be used in animal feed?

25:47 Tell us about background and when you found out biology is the answer?

30:15 Can this reduce the need to fumigate strawberries?

Learn more about Raised Roots www.facebook.com/RaisedRootsCA

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Agronomist Discusses Benefits of VermisTerra Aged Earthworm Castings and Tea

This year VermisTerra attended the World AG Expo in Tulare and passed out samples and information about our aged castings, worm tea and hydrospiral tubes. If you love VermisTerra and wonder about the science behind how it works, this is the video that explains it. If you are just learning about VermisTerra, learn more about what we’re doing differently.

Agronomist and Nut Tree Expert, Peter Viss shares his knowledge about VermisTerra aged earthworm castings, tea and how what sets them apart.

 

Filmed over three days at the 2019 Tulare World AG Expo.

See Table of Contents to Jump to a question below!

Send questions for Peter to info@vermisterra.com

Day 1

1:38 How did you learn about VermisTerra? More about bacteria in the worm gut

6:55 A Framework for understand the benefits he’s observed with growers

19:42 Does VermisTerra help with plant disease?

26:00 What’s the difference between VermisTerra castings and tea? What’s the recommended usage?

35:44 How have VermisTerra castings and tea helped farmers you know?

 

Day 2

42:00 Is VermisTerra friendly for the environment?

47:00 Can you use VermisTerra with other fertilizers?

49:00 Does VermisTerra contain humic acid and calcium?

52:00 If VermisTerra is so great, why haven’t more people heard of it?

 

Day 3

56:00 What’s the return on investment (ROI)? Give us examples of its value

1:00:00 How long should I continue using VermisTerra?

1:05:00 Can you explain compost vs. earthworm castings?

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HydroSpiral is the premier root watering system on the market

‘According to the EPA, “An American family of four can use 400 gallons ​of water per day, and about 30 percent of that is devoted to outdoor uses. More than half of that outdoor water is used for watering lawns and gardens. Nationwide, landscape irrigation is estimated to account for almost one-third of all ​residential ​water use, totaling more than 7 billion gallons per day.”

A typical suburban home on a 1⁄4 acre lot uses between 2500 gallons and 2700 gallons of water per watering cycle. That’s a 40 percent system efficiency rate, which means only about 1000 gallons of that water goes to actually maintaining the landscape. The rest is wasted in overspray onto hardscapes and evaporation.

As a licensed irrigator, I accept the challenge of aiming for 100 percent efficiency, so I set out to create ‘Holistic Water Management Systems’, that renew the land, reduce runoff, and help recharge the aquifers. When given the opportunity to incorporate this model in a 30 acre food forest using alternative water sources, I knew this was my chance to design a state of the art, high efficiency, water management system that would help revivify and regenerate the surrounding landscape. Upon researching the most cutting edge tools on the market, I was elated to learn about the University of Arizona’s study in increasing tree growth by 48 percent.

There are several other products on the market similar to the HydroSpiral. After extensive research and lab analysis, I found that in the end it was HydroSpiral’s unique design that makes it the superior product on the market. No other brand features the spiral design that keeps it free and clear of sand and sediment without having to purchase a “sand sleeve” at additional cost. This unique design, coupled with the fact that the HydroSpiral is made from post consumer recycled materials, and costs about a1⁄3 of its competitors products, the choice was clear.

My opinion, as a professional irrigator is that the HydroSpiral is the premier root watering system on the market. They install easy and fast and are versatile with regard to active or passive systems.

Any irrigator looking to create a more Earth sustainable business model should have access to this technology. Homeowners looking to create a few beautiful, fast growing statement trees should have this in their tool kit. Farmers, permaculturists, landscape architects, or hobbyist seeking to maximize growth and yeild while helping to heal the land, should include this tool. The more we turn away from excessive and wasteful practices, and toward regenerative, holistic methods of cultivation, the closer we get to permanent solutions to many of our global problems.

I unequivocally recommend the HydroSpiral to anyone looking to plant a tree. The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, the second best time is today.’

 

Brenton “Brently” Donnell

Holistic Water Manager Licensed Irrigator
LI 23853

InnovativeIrrigationTech.Com

Irrigator-In-Charge SymbiosisTX.com

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Finally produced grapes! Tripled my pepper production and size

I planted two champagne grapes a few years ago and they never produced for me. I watered regularly, amended the soil with compost, and watched in dismay as they grew leaves then died off for the winter. Well, came across some worm castings tea and soil amendment by Vermisterra and started adding it earlier this year and was surprised and excited to finally get them to flower and produce some very sweet and delicious grapes!

They were delicious and had a high sugar content unlike the water logged grapes at the supermarket. My tortoises enjoy eating the leaves so these provide joy for the whole family. Can’t wait until next years yield. 

I tripled my pepper production and size this year. These are amazing! We have Serrano, jalapeño, cayenne and banana peppers. Another example of how prolific your garden can get if the plants are fed well, starting with adding some worm castings by Vermisterra along with some of their castings tea.

– Evan, Palm Springs CA – Instagram @Mokumebotanicalgarden

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Paraplegic Has Best Cucumbers Ever, Petunias All in Bloom

I am a paraplegic and use a wheelchair and love to garden. I’ve been using VermisTerra earthworm castings in my garden since this Spring.

My petunias are full of blooms. I used castings and tea on these petunias and Calikim’s heat tolerant greens. Just can’t believe how well they’re all doing. The petunias, tomatoes and cucumbers were all started from seed and in castings and been fertilized with the worm tea. The beefsteak tomato plant that I am sitting next to I counted 29 tomatoes without even looking hard. There were smaller ones on that plant that I never counted. If tomatoes produce like cucumbers have been I will have plenty of juice stored away for winter.

I have a friend that I have convinced to try their premium castings. He too is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair and loves to garden. We share pictures each day of our garden progress. He is amazed at how well mine are doing with your castings and tea.

I have the best cucumbers I have ever grown and my tomatoes really have some potential. The watermelon and canteloupe are off to great start. I’m really liking VermisTerra castings and tea.

-David, Havana IL

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Saved From The Brink of Death

Flower lover and 3rd grade teacher Chris Lunney shares how VermisTerra tea saved her precious clematis flowers from “the brink of death” and helped her successfully germinate irish bells. She loves worm tea because it makes her garden flourish and in turn that makes her feel happy. She shares how nature and gardening is spiritual, grounding and restorative for her.

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Indoor Plants Perked Right Up

“Last year I met these awesome people (points to VermisTerra bottle) at a trade show and got some samples. Let me tell you, this is a really amazing product. I took it home and used it on my houseplants. I had some houseplants that were not doing so well, I used this tea and they perked right up, and did really well.

Also the cool thing is, you can use this in your home because it’s not too stinky. Some products are too stinky to use on indoor houseplants. This is a great product, it worked well, and it’s easy to utilize indoor or outdoor. I would 100% recommend this product.”

-Brittany, Owner of Drain Away Drain Tray

 

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From the Worst to the Best Production

I’ve been running a date ranch for decades. I’ve seen results with VermisTerra tea and recommended it to a farm that I consult. Their date palms on a certain field were watered heavily but still had dried leaves from the salt in the water and soil. Normally date palms produce 14-16 bunches of fruit. These averaged only 4 bunches per tree. That’s poor production.

After almost a year of using worm tea, the trees are producing 15 to 16 bunches per tree. The center new growth is all green. The manager there said, “We’ve never had this much production on this field. It’s gone from the worst producing field to having the best production.”

– Lando (Date Farm Owner and Consultant) Yuma, AZ 

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Everything Looks Better

One thing I noticed on the hibiscus is, where you’d have a little yellowing on the leaves, after the worm tea, was gone. It’s a big hibiscus and it just greened up and took off.

My stuff this year looks better than it did last year across the board. Everything looks better.  -Bob Shea, Coachella Valley CA