Florida’s Orlando Vermitechnology receives many calls asking how exactly our black worm castings are made and how they feed home vegetable gardens, lawns, flowers, and crops. We are proud to offer quality products at affordable prices!
The worms in our facility are in an environment very similar to their natural environment.
Our worms consume the feedstock over and over again, until the microbes have broken down all of the organic matter with low salt index.
There are natural microbes such as yeast, phototropic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, actinomycetes & mycorrhizal fungi present in the worms gut.
The soil microbes very rapidly reproduce because their average life span is two hours. When the microbes die, they release the nutrients and decomposed organic matter that the worms feed on. Worms don’t have no teeth, they cannot consume the organic matter until the microbes break it down. The microbes both internally and externally are converting in the inorganic minerals to the organic form.
The sum of the energy and exudates from the dying microbes is used to feed other members of the soil microbial food web. They all end up going through the worm’s gut and being coated with organic calcium from their calciferous gland. This happens over and over again. Each time it passes though the worm, another layer of nutrients, humic acid, and live microbes is contained within the calcium coating. It is the different number of layers that gives the sustained release effect of the pure Black Castings™.
There is also nitrogen-fixing bacteria that convert nitrogen (N2) from the air into a form the plant can use. The microbes enhance soil structure, which improves infiltration and degradation of pollutants. A sterile environment caused by chemicals compacts causing run off.
Each cast is covered with various thickness of calcium that enables the pure Black Castings™ to be effective over a long period of time. As the moisture dissolves the calcium, it is an immediate food source for the plants.
Once the calcium has been dissolved, the nutrients, micronutrients, and microbes will be released into the root zone, creating a healthy soil food web. You will not see any layering effects with pure Black Castings.
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