Earthworms are the workers of the soil and are sometimes called nature’s plow. Their job is very important for the quality of soil and also decomposition. Many of you will think the more earthworms there are the healthier the soil however this isn’t always the case. But as organic vegetable gardeners we encourage an abundance of earthworms in our garden to help maintain healthy soil to grow better vegetables in.
Sources:
http://extension.psu.edu/plants/crops/soil-management/soil-quality/earthworms
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_053291.pdf
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/soils/health/biology/?cid=nrcs142p2_053863
With thanks to Josh Sommers’ worm video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshsommers/4321872472/in/photolist-7TMQXb-7492zC-cczYn-atm4Vn-fgJBGm-7qN7wH-7zUJ7C-5WPd5-kDgX6w-4wiVeU-7bBw1d-ajt5bC-cqauJL-qggXaM-7wpQix-e1WDjp-ccJb8A-e5FTfC-m9e71g-9waQNm-DoMoy-deZ46q-5Zdj44-dEVETE-4U6DSX-338jH5-7LVcFf-evgG78-ANq5-3JEwuV-2iXp4v-cuSeaJ-gJof7A-6755rJ-ee6vvQ-aeRRGf-eewYkU-asQfwp-7wJppk-5Cxrhp-7NiztU-9WDThv-bDNxSK-8TkZ7S-bZnq6L-8Mv41c-8Cc6uF-7wm5Rc-65HB1e-2THMfz
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Sprinkle cocaine round your garden the worms get addicted and never leave
i have an abundance of earthworms….but mine are psychic…….whenever i dig to get one(usually to move to a pot with all the proper nutrition it needs to thrive) they hide……but when i;m digging to plant something new, i have to be super careful because they pop up everywhere…..and i dont wanna kill them….it's almost like they know why i'm digging….
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Years ago I started with 36 worms in October and by the end of May I was giving worms to my friends. I fed my worms scraps but most important a mixture of 3 parts flax seed, 1 part each of sesame and sunflower seeds all were raw and organic, ground in a coffee grinder. I top fed the worms by sprinkling over the surface of the bedding about an eighth of an inch deep, I then sprayed water on the dry seed powder. This mixture is a super food as it is high in omega 3 and 6 as well as a large list of chemical constituents of vitamins and minerals and various enzymes and nutrients. I went from 36 worms to several pounds between 4 to 6 ibs in less than a year. My bedding was loaded with capsules and small worms continuously.
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Not one worm in your garden? How in the hel% stock footage in the beginning
Great info! Thanks.
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Thanks for this i am a beginner but thank for these channels and you wanting to share your knowledge. Question what things can be use to incorporate this in i door growing?
Thank you for this video. It's all well and good when you want to increase earthworm population, but how about when you have no earthworms at all to begin with? I am developing a roof garden, naturally on concrete. I got in a load of field soil but it really is totally inert matter – basically just dust and small stones. I did add coconut coir and commercial topsoil to it as well as a little matured compost that I had in a tumbler bin. I do have a worm bin but they are red wrigglers (eisenia fetida) not earthworms so I very much doubt they would survive in this type of "bedding" since the patch I'm trying to liven up gets a full blast of morning sun. I am in Malta so I can assure you even the morning sun is scorchingly hot in summer. I doubt they would survive the high temperature as well as the structure of my current soil. Any suggestions as to what I could do? Thanks in advance.
The Smithsonian Institute has 429,000 different species of worms in there inventory.
My brother went camping and have a whole extra cup of night crawlers in thr fridge i want to release them and set them free in my garden. But im afraid they will die. And i dont want them to be trapped in a cup. Does anyone know what to do?
Tea bags are a great resource for baby earthworms. I put them around my garden and check on them months later. Open them up and love to see all of the babies!
can earthworms live in leaf mold alone ?
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I simply put em in a container in ph adjusted peat and feed them dry worm chow
I have a 15 gallon tote of red wigglers that I feed coffee grounds, spoiled bananas and rabbit poop. I keep the bin to harvest the castings. I get about 60 lbs of castings per year. I use some and sell some. In the fall I collect all the leaves in my yard with a yard sweeper and over the winter I run them through a cement mixer with a few stones to pulverize them and add this to my flower beds and gardens.The leaves retain moisture and add nutrients to the soil and draw earthworms.
Very well mate I cultivated eisenia hortensia who have evolved to a high degree due to long dynamic food regime and introduced minerals that are a grit source with each feeding compost and raw produce particular the pumpkin s and eggs plus insect fras plus caseins for super worms
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My question is, I have two Dalek compost bins and the worms are migrating to the lid? Why?
I use to kill all the worms I found in my soil , I stumbled across fly growin , into compost & then I thought , maybe these worms are good also . Researched & the rest is history…
great video
https://youtu.be/eETZ5iPkgEU
Compost worms need to be constantly fed to keep their numbers up but if you could get Megascolides australis you might not need as many: They grow to around a metre long and two centimetres thick, though specimens as long as three metres have been recorded. It has been said that they are so large they can be heard crawling. Imagine opening up a can of those worms!
Earth Worm are an invasive species and have been harming forest in the north east of America .
They love rabbit poop.
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