Vermicompost Leachate: Liquid Earthworm Poop Improves Organic Tomato Growth

Friday, November 21, 2014 - 14:40 in Biology & Nature

Want to improve tomato crop yields without using more fertilizer? Try  verimcompost leachate. That is a soil ameliorant, which is basically a fertilizer but made of an organic liquid produced by earthworm poop. If you are really organic, you can even make tea from it.  A research project recently studied the effects of vermicompost leachate on tomato seedlings subjected to various temperatures and levels of water stress.  read more

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