[jerrymeola]

Gardeners have been using worms to improve their soil for thousands of years.
Worm Tea is the composted product of worms, concentrated and fed with additional rock minerals, to give all the best features of gardening with worms, microbes, growth hormones, natural fertilizer and over 70 micro nutrients in a commercial package. Extensive research has been done at Ohio State University
http://www.wormdigest.org/content/view/311/2/

I recently did a garden show at Mount Dora Florida and met Bernie Moro with her husband Carl and daughter,Renee, the owners of OurVitalEarth. http://www.ourvitalearth.com They were selling their worm products and while we were talking Renee, who is not an orchid grower showed me the Vanda she bought the year before at the show. She watered it with Worm Tea only once a month. She just did not know Vanda need more water. The flowers were gorgeous and had been in bloom for three months. I was shocked.


Bernie told me they recycle the water over 40 times back over the worms while they are composting, which concentrates the tea and results in a shelf life of nine months rather than a few days. The process was developed in A
I bought a commercial quantity and after using it for only once last month, I am impressed. I do not like to recommend something that I have not tested longer, but the first results were amazing. My Vanda roots looked better after 10 days without water then one watered every day. The velum is not dried smooth, but still has that puffy look of freshly watered. I have soaked all my orchid species so far and this week I intend to start spraying the leaves with Worm Tea to control fungus and insects. We will see how it goes.