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After making compost tea from worm castings. is the compost

12 years ago

still useable afterwards? I've just made 1 batch but placed the compost in cheesecloth so it held it together. I placed it in a 5 gallon bucket with a bubbler under it for 30 hours.

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plumiebear
12 years ago
Yes, but you could also throw it back into an active worm bin and let the worms process it again.

Andrew
mike50
12 years ago
Andrew:
At some point doesn't the compost lose it's nutritive value for the worms? Thanks
plumiebear
12 years ago
Mike, much of the nutritional value comes from the microorganisms growing on the organic material. The tea making process washes away many of those microbes, but not all. If you throw that material back into an active worm bin, I'm sure the microbes will quickly grow and the worms will be attracted to ingest the particles again.

Andrew

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