Fertilise Your Soil The Natural Way With Burrowing Earthworms

By adding Garden Worms you can enrich and restore soil as nature intended!

Soil restoration with worms has long been used in Holland, a country known for its good husbandry. More recently, the successful Edam project that transformed a Cornish quarry into a centre of horticultural excellence introduced garden worms to help their soil.

How do worms work? Worms live below ground but come to the surface to eat at night. The process of moving up and down, up and down, aerates the soil, helps drainage, pulls fallen leaves down to the lower levels, breaks up clay soil and binds sandy soil. Worms also produce "worm cast" a highly nutritious compost containing growth-promoting substances - sometime known as "black gold". This compost plays an essential role in feeding and maintaining the soil. In fact worms take the hard work out of gardening!

Unfortunately worms are now less abundant in our soil. Overuse of weed killers and insect ides, intensive farming and the arrival of the predatory flatworm have all taken their toil. But you can add worms to your soil.

Instructions for adding worms to your soil:

Mark the areas where you plan to add the earthworms to your garden. In open soil the holes should be no more than 2 metres apart. Under trees the correct distance is half way between the trunk and the edge of the branches.

1. Dig a hole about 23cm (9") deep and 15cm (6") wide. The earthworms are best added to the soil early in the morning or at least before mid day to give them a chance to settle down

2. Place a handful of bedding into the hole

3. Add a handful of worms (approximately 50 worms) to the hole

4. Cover this with another handful of bedding and then mix in the original soil

5. If you have bedding left over place it on top of the spot where you have added the worms.

6. Add water but do not waterlog. Continue this process until all the earthworms have been added to the soil

You have now introduced the earthworms to their new home and it is a good idea to leave them undisturbed for a couple of weeks.

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