By: Austin

Austin — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:22:31 +0000

Hello Mr. Bently, This is Austin from Denton, Tx, the RN. I sent you A meal with pictures, but I thought this was a good place to expand on your vermin filtration program. I finish the bioreactor, but didn’t get back to you. Working on the second one now. I hope to have some data for you in the fall or spring.
I have search everywhere on this side of the hemisphere for research on vermicompost extract. I can find tons of video on vermiwash, but not the way I want to do it. I did find a very interesting video in India on what I called true vermiwash. I just want to take my vermicompost and place it in water in a microbag, massage the microbes out like Dr. Elaine Ingham do with compost extract. She is mostly doing research on the compost tea and some on compost extract. See below the videos describing the various methods I just mentioned.
https://youtu.be/keg0Ia4y4_Y Vermiwash

https://youtu.be/vFlxV2DXEyM true vermiwash

https://youtu.be/jErga1eP718 Elaine Ingham Soil Food Web Compost and Compost Tea ( scroll to 37:41 to see how her helper makes compost extract.)

Now , lets get something clear, I DON’T LIKE MAKING AND TURNING COMPOST PILES. IT’S NOT IN MY NATURE. BUT I LOVE VERMICOMPOSTING.

I simply take my food waste(vegetables and fruits, grains, etc…) out to the vermibucket and filled them and the worms and microbes do the rest. That’s why I like the bioreactor. I fill it up and the organism do the rest. It’s like going to the bank and watching your money turned to gold, I mean Awesome nutrients!!!

I recently completed research on how longs it takes for worms and microbes to convert food waste into vermicompost in a garden vermibucket that’s inside the ground of square foot garden beds in late May, June and early july in Texas. Nothing fancy, I just had to get the data out there because My friends where asking me.
This video is listed below too.
https://youtu.be/pX76kN660ag
HOW FAST DO THE WORMS AND MICROBES BREAKDOWN FOOD IN A GARDEN VERMICOMPOST BUCKET

I have about 18 vermibucket throughout the garden. The vermibuckets are lowes 2.5 gallon paint buckets with drill holes in the sidewalls and bottom and covered with a 10” valve cover top. I can pull the bucket up with the hand rail to use in the garden bed for planting in various holes without going back to the bucket each time to get some material.

Do you have any research completed on using vermicompost extract on plants?

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By: Austin