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Compost Tea Applications Available

DITCH THE CHEMICALS.

SAY GOOD BYE TO SYNTHETIC FETILIZERS.

SAY HELLO TO CLEAN AIR AND VIBRANT SOIL.

Applications starting at $80

3 applications for $225

Compost tea applications available for residential urban properties, is a service I have been wanting to offer for a long time.

compost tea applications available

Compost tea applications have been part of our gardens for about ten years. Mainly for our own garden, but often for a friend or two throughout the season. In the past few years I have seen more and more interest from others in the benefits of the tea.

In November of 2020, we moved to a larger location. Now I have the ability to expand the tea brewing system. The final testing stages of the distribution system are complete. The tricky part with compost tea (compared to chemical fertilizers), is that the tea is a living ecosystem of microbiology. Transporting it down the highway, and then pumping the little lifeforms through a hose, takes extra consideration. Too much turbulence or lack of oxygen, will greatly decrease the effectiveness of the tea in the soil.

Keeping the bugs out of the system and in the tea, so to speak…

Compost tea applications available

If you are interested in having an application this year check out the compost tea application page on the website. Or, contact me directly via email to set up a time to discuss your properties needs. If you want to learn more about compost tea and composting for small spaces in general, check out the compost pages on the website.

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Bokashi Worm Food

Bokashi Vermicomposting – Feeding Bokashi to the Worms

surprised worm

Using Bokashi worm food.

Using Bokashi worm food. In northern climates, a lot of the active composting occurs in the summer months, with only the die-hards continuing to add to the piles through the winter. As a result, many cities and municipalities are now offering year round community composting programs, much like the curbside garbage and recycling collection. Which is an amazing step forward, in my opinion.

With curbside compost collection not an option however, and limited space. Vermicomposting has been our method of choice for composting much of the house hold organic waste. One shortfall of composting with worms is that worms don’t “eat” everything.

small worm bin for Bokashi

The intention here is to send the food scraps the worms won’t eat on their own through the Bokashi process, and then feed the finished Bokashi to 1 dedicated worm bin. 1 worm bin will be for this experiment because the pH (acidity) is different in Bokashi than in vermicomposting. The Bokashi vermicomposting worms may be a little more sour than the others. Sorry for the pun… Also, as a safety precaution to protect the rest of the clew. There was a tragedy in 2011/2012 where I combined an ailing bin to a good bin and…well we don’t want to repeat that, let’s just say. These worms are like “Pioneer Worms”.

“Renovating” the worm home at my kids Montessori school over the Christmas holiday, left me with a small worm bin. One tidbit I picked up in my research was to start small. Therefore, this is perfect to start changing the pH of the clew, and to start small. . I will move them into a larger bin as they need the room.

Visit www.eatmyshrubs.com/bokashi-vermicomposting to see how to incorporate these two very different forms of small space composting into one. The result will be the most nutrient dense soil food I can possibly create. The challenge will be to control the moisture and pH.