Can you store worm castings

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Worms Can Change Your Life! Password Reset. Worm Castings need to be kept cool and moist for the microorganisms to stay alive. You can store them in a bucket with a loose fitting lid, in a cool dry place and they will stay alive for up to months.

You should not dry them out or let them get overheated. Your email address will not be published. So, how do you exactly make worm compost tea? This is important since the good microorganisms in the worm tea solution needs air. Recent Posts. Rabbit Hutch Worm Farms. February 7, at AM. July 4, at PM. August 10, at PM. September 5, at AM. September 8, at AM. I heard that if worm compost is left it will dry to the consistency of concrete.

I have my worm trays in the garage and when I needed to harvest compost and save it for a while I put it into a plastic bin with wet newspaper on top of it and sprayed with water each day to keep it viable. I was able to use it after that. I also have a small bin in the garage with a bag of planting soil that each week I add coffee grinds and ground eggshells and use that when planting in the Spring as well.

Maybe worm compost would dry like concrete if it started out as thick soupy mud, but if it starts out loose and aerated- it dries that way too. Unfortunately, I found that out the hard way by leaving a bowl of prepped compost out in the sun.

Your plastic bin method sounds like a nice way to hold and access as much as you need any time. I like that! Thanks for sharing! Great idea, Satindoll. I plan on copying it. Your bin of castings will surely have eggs and baby worms in it, thus the beginning of a new, maybe productive one with the addition of newspaper, coffee grinds, etc.

I have a worm bin but have never harvested the castings as I have pondered that removing the strugglers and using the compost, how do I not risk losing baby worms and indeed eggs?

Thanks, Carly. If you add the worm casting to your garden or raised beds with babies and or eggs you will be adding the best thing to your garden beds, babies and eggs. The babies and eggs will grow and continue the cycle and what could be better than a garden full of worms making castings right in your garden and the worm bin will make more babies. Vermiculture about worms will help farmers get nutrition to increase the quality of soil for producing goods on their farm.

This is the perfect time of year to put attention to increasing the quality of garden soil. When I saw this blog, I have no idea what worm compost was. Luckily as I read on this, I knew it somehow. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about it!