Using Biocast as a foliar on your plants is one of our favourite, and most common, ways to use it. If you struggle with pest and disease issues, plant nutrition challenges, lack of vigour in your plants or generally think your plants could run better, then read on!...
Inoculating seedlings with Biocast Soaking the roots of your new plant in Biocast just before planting or repotting is a great way to help your plant sail through transplant shock. What is seedling, or root inoculation? Inoculation simply means that your seedling or...
Biological seed inoculation If you are putting out seed, and want it to germinate into a robust and healthy seedling in a cost-effective way, then a biological seed inoculation with a living product such as Biocast is a great option. This post gives some background on...
Happy (calendar) spring! Perfect time to talk about flowers – and how to boost flowering with Biocast! Ever since we wrote the article on using Biocast as a foliar and I (Kirsty) did a bit of a dive into the natural plant growth hormones it contains; I’ve...
When you’re planting a bunch of new trees there’s nothing more disheartening than coming back a few months later to find most of them dead. Or perhaps you’ve had the experience of planting a fruit tree that you’re excited about, only to have it under-produce then...
Photo credit: Aus Eco Solutions Kerrie Guppy has been an enthusiastic proponent of Biocast for years. Kirsty had a chat with her about how she and her team use it for tree planting. Kerrie and her husband Kristian own Aus Eco Solutions, offering “environmentally...
At the coming of her retirement, we would like to honour the incredible career of Dr Christine Jones by sharing some of the things we have learned from her over the past decade or so. For those not familiar with her, her CV describes her: “Dr Christine Jones is an...
At the moment (early 2024), we are celebrating 10 years of commercial worm farming! Lee often gets asked how he got started. Here’s our story: In the beginning Waaaaay back in the day, Lee was a carpenter. He apprenticed with his dad Col, just as Col had before...
Jason Simmons of The Overseer Saddlery at Armidale, NSW, is one of our Biocast stockists. He runs cattle on his 500 acre property, and has been using Biocast since 2017. He predominantly uses it as a seed dressing, and once a year as a foliar spray. Jason has as very...
There are heaps of different terms out there to describe the liquids produced as a result of some sort of worm composting process – largely because there are so many different ways vermiculture can be done! They can be broken into four categories....
Get more with multi-species planting As we look around our island at the moment, we see it becoming brown, and our neighbours are struggling to have feed for their animals. Yes, lack of rain is starting to bite; but we’re also in the time of awkwardness that happens...
Say you’re wanting to improve your soil (well, you get these emails so you probably are!). And you know you need to change things up, because you can see that what’s been happening on your land has been leading to some undesirable symptoms. Maybe compacted soils that...
