Build or buy the worms a box or bin, feed them food scraps and they’ll reward you by sticking around and producing a rich compost that not only adds nutrients to the soil, but also improves its structure. Instead, keep your worm farm working with red worms, also called red wigglers or tiger worms. These big night crawlers won’t hang around. Right away he learned the most important lesson in vermicomposting: Don’t use the big worms already wiggling around in the soil. “But then I took a session in master gardener training and the instructor talked about how good worm castings are and how easy it is to make.” “I started with regular compost,” said Steele, who teaches Extension-sponsored classes on worm composting or vermicomposting.
Just ask true believer Larry Steele, an Oregon State University Extension Service master gardener who commends the rich nutrition of red-worm manure, also known as castings. – Impressed by compost’s contribution to the soil, gardeners conferred on it the nickname “black gold.” Even more beneficial worm castings could take the title “black diamonds.”
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