We're so proud to collaborate with Terra Flora to bring you one litre bags of their premium Vermicompost.
Vermicompost and fertilizer will ship with your tubers in April or be ready at the farm on our pickup days (April 10, 11, 17 and 18). We do combine shipping for multiple orders. Please pay for shipping for your first order (shipping charge is $23) and then use coupon code COMBINE at checkout for subsequent orders. Please make sure you're using the same name, email and shipping address to use this feature.
We add a handful of these worm castings with our dahlia tubers into the hole at planting. We also mix it into our seed starting mix and add a tablespoon or two to the planting hole when we plant our seedlings.
Vermicompost (earthworm castings) is the rich digested soil that worms leave behind. It's rich in nutrients, microorganisms and beneficial microbes (as many as 10,000 different kinds!), and adding it to your soil aids plant growth, helps fight off disease and nourishes your plants. We add a handful of these premium worm castings to the soil with our tubers and seedlings at planting time and have observed larger blooms, healthier root structures and increased tuber yields.
These castings take 18 months to produce from start to finish. They start out life as wood chips and leaves combined with clean animal manures and green waste from the Terra Flora market garden. Once red wiggler worms work their magic and Terra Flora's bespoke blend of ingredients scientifically proven to increase photosynthesis, plant yield and vitality are added to the mix, we're left with a premium vermicompost blend to add to our gardens and enrich our soil.
To use at planting: blend at a ratio of 10-20% with a potting mix or add 15ml/1 tbsp per small plant or 255ml/1cup for larger plants at transplant, ensuring vermicompost is in contact with plant roots.
For compost tea: use 1L/4 cups in 19L/5gal of water and apply over 140 m3/1500 sq ft.
For compost tea: use 1L/4 cups in 19L/5gal of water and apply over 140 m3/1500 sq ft.
For more information about worm castings, check out this fascinating trial by Mind and Soil where they used vermicompost (Terra Flora and others) to test if it increased plant growth (spoiler: it does! And the Terra Flora vermicompost performed the best!) https://youtu.be/HvY_rHVQxno?si=6Clx-r7Ocdtx5fep