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10-31-2003, 12:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: St. Amant LA
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Earthworm castings
Does anyone know where I can buy a tote(ton) or more of castings around Louisiana
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11-02-2003, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Idaho
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I would look in y. pages under worm suppliers/ fish bait suppliers/ or something similiar.
And if in LA I would contact the crawdad growers/farmers/processors to see what kind of "by-products" they produce for potential uses.
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11-17-2003, 04:37 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: moline, IL
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Type in vermiculture on a search engine.
Im sure there are worm growers in that area.
Castings are great fertilizer. Up to 11 times npk. That is natural.
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11-17-2003, 05:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by zimm4
Castings are great fertilizer. Up to 11 times npk. That is natural.
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11 times??? times what?
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11-17-2003, 07:09 PM
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Im sorry. Worm castings are up to 11 times the npk of regular soil.
Also they are a good slow realease fertilizer. Will not burn plants.
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11-17-2003, 08:17 PM
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The NPK of "regular soil"..... I see.....interesting.
think I'll try this new one 
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11-24-2003, 10:45 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario,Canada
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on the subject of worms...
Heres a pic the castings that collected on my machine form one green this fall.
THe interesting thing about the worms is that the 'bad' areas of the greens have lots of castings while the good areas have very few. And the bad areas are gradually get better, therefore less castings. THe best green has almost no castings at all.
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