What will you use your castings for?

Starting seedlings. But I must admit. I have been having so much fun playing around with the worms that my square foot gardening boxes have not been touched yet this year.

I can relate to that, it's easy to be fascinated to the point of being non-productive. :)

When I get too carried away with thinking of how to get the perfect castings I try to remind myself that the castings are a means to an end. The real objective is to reduce my waste output and to provide my own compost product for the veg garden.

As such, there is some evidence that vermicompost (not totally processed) is better then pure castings as the unprocessed food remaining increases the amount of nutrient available to the plants.

That said though, I am very pleased with my castings though they are still a bit damp and slightly sticky so I would love to find a better way to dry them out a little so they could be sifted easier.

A few hours sitting on corrigated cardboard maybe.