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How to Use VermisTerra Worm Tea and Castings

Misilla from Learn to Grow shows us how she feeds her garden with earthworm tea and castings.
She goes over how to make the tea and feed using a watering can. She also shares how to side dresses her plants and trees with worm castings. This educational video also goes into the many benefits of earthworm castings while touring her beautiful garden in Washington.

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Skeptic has double harvest, no horn worms

“I’ve been growing tomatoes my whole life: heirlooms, cherries and beef steaks. I’m a skeptic, but I used worm tea and got the best tomatoes I’ve ever had. I got probably double the usual harvest or more. I also would get horn worms every year but didn’t have any this year!

Our hibiscus usually has white flies and after using the worm tea every three weeks I have incredible flowers and not a white fly at all. Lastly, my Christmas cactus which I’ve been babying for 2 years wasn’t doing anything. After giving it VermisTerra tea, now every leaf has two new leaves on it.”

-Joe Sitko, Bermuda Dunes CA 

 

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Huge Rhubarb, astonishing tomato and strawberries

Check out this video featuring harvesting big rhubarb from Misilla’s channel: Learn To Grow.  She said a lot of her viewers are shocked at how huge her rhubarb gets!

“For the past three years, I’ve been using only worm castings and Vermisterra nutrient tea to amend our soil and feed our plants. Our plants have become healthier, more lush and bigger since! There are beneficial microbes and fungi in the worm castings which help break down organic matter that feeds the soil and plants. The humus from the worm castings retain nutrients, microbes and moisture while plant hormones and enzymes assist in plant growth and overall health making plants less susceptible to pests and diseases. We’ve also seen astonishing results with our tomato and strawberry plants!”

-Misilla De Llana, Learn to Grow

 

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California Gardening Reviews VermisTerra Products

This month Youtube v-log channel California Gardening reviewed VermisTerra products and applied both castings and tea. Stay connected to see the garden updates and progress reports. We’ve sponsored his video review and provided products for testing.

Here is a video guide of how the California garden looks in the month of May – California Gardening Garden Tour – May 2019 His VermisTerra review starts at 21 minutes. After his May 2019 Garden tour, he shows the difference between standard and premium castings, how to apply it to a raised bed, how to mix VermisTerra tea and feed to your garden. Soon he will make videos on making a soilless container mix with coco coir and castings. We can’t wait to compare his garden from this year to next year.

Here’s an excerpt from his blog:

Product review

We will review a wonderful products from VermiSterra, a family owned company based in Thermal, CA.

VermisTerra Product Contents
VermisTerra Product Contents

We will look at VermisTerra vermicompost and VermisTerra worm tea and how to use these products in your home garden for maximum yield.

VermisTerra Soil Amendment
VermisTerra Soil Amendment
VermisTerra Worm Tea
VermisTerra Worm Tea

They are great organic soil amendments and are neutral pH, so won’t burn the plants and are safe for application on seedlings. Their products are OMRI certified and we are eager to share the progress of our plants in the coming months.

 

Read his blog here:

California Gardening Garden Tour – May 2019 Organic Gardening Tips & Advice

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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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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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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