How to Create an Abundance of Earthworms in Your Garden

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Thanks forbthis lovely information.😅

Mulch, mulch, mulch.

The way I keep earth worm population high is with planting diverse cover crops in the fall cereal rye hairy vetch cow peas crimson clover mustard etc then in the spring I chop it down remove the cover crop mulch and cover the beds with clear plastic killing the cover crop and letting the below ground bio mass decay adding a feast for the earth worms as the worms feast on the decaying roots they are tilling the soil once the cover crop is dead I make hole for my starters and seeds add homemade 2 year aged compost cover with the cover crop mulch. If you want to turn dirt into soil all you need is aged fungal compost diverse cover crops the aged compost is your biology and roots to feed the biology keep a living root in the ground as long as you can to feed and keep your biology alive and thriving

Sprinkling mustard cake powder in winters help them grow fast

Sprinkling chickpea/cereals powder इन summers also help them grow fast

Otherwise they need organic media to thrive on

I crush kitchen waste in mixy and feed eartwroms. They grow so fast.

You can attract alot of worms by simply splitting fresh pice of red oak and laying it flat on the ground. I am editing a video of why that works today as a just so happens.

Bury a qhole banana in your garden qith just a bit of the peeling gone and check it a few days later..... you will find a ton of worms eating it all balled up

I buried 40 catfish yesterday about a foor deep in trenches in my garden. I plant to have all my garden rows completely done this way by winter. Come spring I should have plenty of worms and fertility

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I'm going to give you some feedback. 1. Don't read to us. If you do, make it sound like you aren't. 2. The intro should not take up half the video. We know why to want worms. We would not click a video of how to do something, if we didn't already know we wanted to do it.
Sorry but that was hard to deal with and I can tell you want to educate people.
But all I got was, use lots of compost. You could have written an 120 word community post and saved yourself time editing.

They love wer oak leaves blacked oak leaves buried just a couple inches

Add any ammount of coffee grounds on top of where you have your worms and in no time they'll be up there gobling it up. they just go crazy over the stuff, more than any else !!! George from Southern Spain.

Keeping my soil moisture up during the hottest weeks of summer seems to work wonderfully! Im

Avocado is my worms number one food. The avocado is gone in one day and the skin is filled with worms every time.

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Pigs are the large version of nature’s plow!

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Hi Huw, Nice to visit your channel again. Your videos are always fact-filled and interesting. I've been a home Vermiculturalist since 2009.
I have a Can-O-Worms and Red Wigglers. The rich Castings and Leachate go into my garden and improved the soil. The Earthworms seem to love it. I also lay down cardboard from cereal boxes, etc. and cover it was fresh grass clippings. It keeps down the weeds and the worms 🪱 stay cool underneath in the Central Florida heat. And I keep a compost bin with only grass clippings and shredded cardboard that I turn each time we cut grass. After a few months I stop adding and allow it to break down. The 🪱 Worms 🪱 join the party and I know it's time to spread the Gold around. Happy Gardening 👩‍🌾👍🪱

Hi Huw, Nice to visit your channel again. Your videos are always fact-filled and interesting. I've been a home Vermiculturalist since 2009.
I have a Can-O-Worms and Red Wigglers. The rich Castings and Leachate go into my garden and improved the soil. The Earthworms seem to love it. I also lay down cardboard from cereal boxes, etc. and cover it was fresh grass clippings. It keeps down the weeds and the worms 🪱 stay cool underneath in the Central Florida heat. And I keep a compost bin with only grass clippings and shredded cardboard that I turn each time we cut grass. After a few months I stop adding and allow it to break down. The 🪱 Worms 🪱 join the party and I know it's time to spread the Gold around. Happy Gardening 👩‍🌾👍🪱

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They love rabbit poop.

Earth Worm are an invasive species and have been harming forest in the north east of America .

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!

First you say too many earth worms in soils is not healthy,,Then you say too many is healthy for the soil..😳🙄🤨...

great video

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...

I have a question and I hope I will get an answer.
My question is, I have two Dalek compost bins and the worms are migrating to the lid? Why?

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

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.

I simply put em in a container in ph adjusted peat and feed them dry worm chow

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!

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?

The Smithsonian Institute has 429,000 different species of worms in there inventory.

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.

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?

Not one worm in your garden? How in the hel% stock footage in the beginning

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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.

Thanks a lot for sharing! Love the link to usda research! 😍😍

Wow awesome!
Nice informative
I love it

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....

Sprinkle cocaine round your garden the worms get addicted and never leave

ummmmm im a black male from the hood learning how to grow now ... its alll about the soil mannnnnnnnnn

Greetings, I make my own juice and throw away the pulp. Would worms eat it if I mix with the soil?