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Good choice. I used it on all of my seedlings this year - peppers and tomatoes. Will use it again next year on seedlings.

It's a super great choice...I use fresh EWC from my worm farm to make worm tea and my lawn, garden and peppers absolutely love it....

@sp33d: Space issues mostly. With the garden bed I made and the existing Yellow Morugas in containers, there isn't really a space to make it. But yeah, it's a great choice

They already said it, but I think it's a good move too. Hope they love it

Just took a look at a 10-gallon aerating compost tea bin on an organic website that seems quite space efficient, and takes municipal water (they recommend running the aerator for at least 30 minutes to get the chlorine out). The price is a bit high up front ($500 plus shipping), but it makes 10 gallons of worm compost tea per shot every 24 hours, so I imagine I could easily make up the price in no time by making my own...

There's no way I would ever spend money on someone's else's tea brewing creation when you can easily make your own... If you wanna make more then 5 gallons at a time I would get a 20-30 gallon plastic tote and make one yourself... $500?? That's cray cray

Well, as anyone who's known me for a long time can attest, I'm very mechanically disinclined, so unless it's blindingly simple to create, if there's a way to screw up making something, I'll do so Since I do have several unused 5-gallon buckets from Home depot lying around, I may give a home solution a good college try...

That's an awfully fancy aerator, sure you don't want an effective diy solution using commercial quality pumps?

Well, like I mentioned a moment ago, Sliz, I'm not terribly mechanically inclined, so I generally avoid DIY stuff as a rule, since I have a habit of screwing such things up

I got ya.. Well hey I will make you a 25 gallon Brewer for $300 shipped??? pm me if interested lol...

Thanks, sp33d, I'll let you know One question I do have... Can you reuse the dry worm castings, or do you have to toss them after every brew?

I toss my used EWC in my garden after one brew... Basically your just amending the soil... I have so much EWC from my worm farm I have never thought about reusing them for multiple brews..

Duly noted, thanks! That was the main question I had. Several sites I've seen though sell the dry worm castings for a very good price, like Amazon has several that essentially sell it for $1-2 a pound shipped which I think is a pretty good deal.

Oh, and another question... what's the shelf-life of your worm tea. I'd hate to make 25 gallons' worth of it and then have it go bad before I can use it all

No problem.. Or you can invest in a worm factory for around $100 and have endless supply of EWC for free using your food scraps that the red wigglers turn into castings.. One of the best gardening and earth conscience things I have ever done..

Or I could send you instructions on making your own worm factory.. If you have a 15-20 gallon tote laying around all you would need to do is drill some holes and buy some red wiggler worms from uncle Jims.. Boom.. Worm factory done..

Well, that's kinda the thing.. I don't produce that much in the way of food scraps (I generally do prepared meals), so I think I'll end up purchasing the bags and going that route...

"what's the shelf-life of your worm tea?" I purchased a concentrate that I had to keep refrigerated. It lasted about a month before I put the liquid into the compost pile.

Good to know, thanks catherine

Freshly brewed tea needs to be used within 24 hours in my experience... I have never used concentrate only fresh brewed so I can't speak on that..