Composting with Red Wiggler Worms:

This article describes to you why posting is g to both soil and pls. You learn about the wier worm and about how you can it to have a 100% natural and beautiful garden.

Red Wier Worms (Eisenia foetida) are the most mon type of posting worm. As they feed, wiers swallow gt quities of organic mrial, digest it, extract its f value and expel the residue as worm cings, which are very rich in nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. life of a wier worm in general is hard. ir bodies are about 70% protein; rich f for many pators. ir major enemies are insect eating birds, like robins, and mammals like moles. If you watch a robin hunting, it pas, cocks it d and then hops. robin's ears can actually r the wier moving under ground. But the wier worm, although sightless and ear-less can feel the vibrans of the bird on the surface. It's the deadly game of survival.

Red wier worms can process large amou of organic matter and, under ideal dins, can eat one and half times its body weight every day. y also reproduce rapidly, and are very to of varians in growing dins.

Worms will breed most often for one of three sons:

o re is an abundance of f available.
o ir survival is thtened by environmal dins.
o y find themselves in an a which is saturd with suitable ms.

Why posting?

worm excretes a soil-nutri mrial called worm cings. This is why wise farmers have historically wed to have lthy worm populans living in their fields. Worms are at the bottom level of the f chain but are critical to lthy soil. Recycling the organic we of a hohold into post allows us to return badly needed organic matter to the soil. In this way, we particip in nature's cycle, and cut down on garbage going into burgeoning landfills. Worm posting is a method for recycling f we into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil diner. gt advage of worm posting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year round posting. It also provides apartm dwels with a means of posting.

In a nutshell, worm post is made in a tainer filled with moistened bedding and worms. Add your f we for a period of time, and the worms and micro-organisms will evually vert the ire te into rich post.

post can be mixed with potting soil and d for hopls and pa tainers. It is an excell mulch (spd in a layer on top of the soil) for potted pls. If it is screened, it can be added for potting mixes for seedlings, and finely sprinkled on a lawn as a diner. It can be d directly in the garden, either dug into the soil or d as a mulch.

Where can you also worm cings?

o flower gardens
o veggie gardens
o rose bushes
o orchids
o trees and lawns
o herb gardens
o anywhere you w lthier pls & soil

Made through a brewing process which runs distilled wr through Red Wier worm cings, the nutrius eleme and microorganisms of the cings are captu in a crd liquid form, named worm tea. By using worm tea on your pls and gardens, you put lthy microorganisms back into the soil where they thrive and multiply, cting a much lthier growing environm for your pls.

Hope you had a g time ding this. Remember to always c\keep your garden lthy and 100% free of chemicals, using worm tea.