Caliuana Worm Castings

1. Vegetables & Annual Color: Line bottom of plant holes & seed furrows with 1 inch of Castings. Set seeds or plants in place & cover with soil. Add 1 cup Caliuana Castings per plant to backfill mix. Top-dress during grow season at 1/4 cup per plant or 1/2 cup per linear foot once every 2 months.
2. Perennials: Add 1/4 cup Caliuana Castings into the soil above the root zone taking care not to damage shallow roots. Apply in Spring, Summer & early Fall per plant to backfill mix.
3. Potted Plants and seeds (New): Apply 1 part Caliuana Castings to 8 parts soil mix or 10% of soil.
4. Potted Plants (Established): Add 1″ of  Caliuana Castings to top of your soil. Mix in gently, taking care not to damage shallow roots – water – repeat every 2 months.
5. Lawns (New): Apply 1.5 cu ft per 100 sq. ft. Work lightly into soil. Mix in grass seed & water well.
6. Lawns (Established): Top dress 1.5 cu. ft. per 100 sq. ft.
7. Roses: Work 1 cup per plant into soil above the root zone taking care not to damage shallow roots. Apply in Spring, early Summer & early Fall. Shrub Beds: Top dress with 1/2 cubic feet per 100 sq. ft., Spring & Fall. Citrus: Top dress within the drip line at 1/2 cu ft. per 35 sq. ft. Apply in early Spring & late Fall. Deciduous Fruit Trees: Top dress within drip at rate of 1/2 cu ft. per 35 sq. ft., early Spring, Mid-Summer and late Fall. Specimen Trees: Top dress within the drip line at 1/2 cu ft. per 35 sq. ft.. Apply in Spring, Summer and Fall.
8. Pots: Add 1/2 inch of Castings to topsoil. Mix gently without damaging shallow roots. Repeat every 2 months. Note: Gently water in BioChar when top-dressing so material adheres to soil.

Please consider alternating Boogie applications with cheaper and more basic and simple worm tea recipes. Our favorite way is to make a dedicated “vermi-tea” from Caliuana Castings, along with some quality compost (ideally a wood-chip rich compost blend), and perhaps a little kelp and / or rock dust as catalyst ingredients. Try sweetening such a tea with a little sugar or molasses (i.e. Sucanat or Boogie Brix is highly recommended) and brew for 24 to 48 hours. Bingo, maximum bang for your vermi-buck!

“Workhorse Tea” Formula (per 5 gallons of full strength brew):
A) 1 cup Caliuana worm castings
B) 1 cup of wood-chip rich compost
(For pure vermi-tea, substitute above with 2 cups of castings only).
C) 1/4 cup Sucanat or molasses or 2 Tbsp Boogie Brix
D) Optional additives: 2 Tbsp Kelp Extract or 1/4 cup kelp meal and 2 Tbsp of any rock dusts (Azonite, Cascade etc).
E) Black Soldier Fly Larvae Frass /Insect Frass: 1 cup Boogie Black (added at hour 18+).

*Note: Brew the workhorse tea for a little longer than regular Boogie Brew 2-part tea (36 to 48 hrs)
*Add the frass (from 1/3 cup to 1.5 cups or so) after 18 hours of brewing. You also want to wait for compost tea to mature BEFORE adding frass as the delicate younger microbes in tea can otherwise get overwhelmed by the strong dominator species (pathogen-busters) in the frass.