So, what is it and how do I use this stuff ?
Our CWM 100, commonly known as worm castings or eartworm castings is the worm manure, babies and eggs.
When we harvest our worms and screen them for shipping, we seperate them from the bedding using a screen. This leaves the eggs and "babies" behind in the bedding. This is what we bag up and sell, the worm manure and babies and eggs are what our CWM 100 is composed of.
The biggest benefit, first of all , is that, unlike chicken, cow and many other amendents, our CWM 100 is not "hot". You can plant directly in to it. It is ideal for starting your seeds, bulbs, slips, etc. and there is no foul smell.
Relying on our 20+ years of container gardening:
If you are "container" gardening for vegetables the best method we have found is to fill your container, be it a bucket, pot or box with 3/4 full of base materials, as most only need 8"- 10" of soil to grow. If you are growing root crops you will need looser, and more base to allow the fruits to expand. Use 2/3 of "cheap" fill using hay, leaves, straw, shavings basically any organic matter that you have easy, preferably free, access to. Then fill the remaining container with your compost. The beauty of this system is that when you wish to replant you only need to add fresh CWM 100 to top off the container.
If you are ground gardening, we suggest that you create a furrow in the row or a hole to plant in. Fill that to ground level and then plant directly into that.
If you wish to make a fertilizing "Tea" you can make it youself by putting 2 handfuls of composted worm manure into a mesh type of bag, onion bags work well and soak it in a 5 gallon bucket filled with water for 24 hours. You must use this mixture within 48-72 hours to be certain to get all the nutrients it will provide. At this point it is full of live organisims that are the "magic" in this mix. They will begin to die off after this time.