Taking Care of Worms

January 24, 2012 by destrymasterson

Some worms are better than other worms, eisenia fetida and lumbricus rebellus are going to be the two most effective worms money can buy. These two specific types of worms are insanely ridiculous at creating organic matter, meaning they are the best fertilizers in existence.

Both the eisenia and lumbricus are going to turn out about eight times the microorganisms that they consume. There are three nutrients that every single plant universally needs: phosphorous, nitrogen, and potassium.

These worms will produce 11 times the nitrogen that they consume, 8 times the phosphorous and 7 times the potassium. That is an incredible amount by anyone's standards.

Caring for worms is very easy, all you need is a bunch of garbage that you can't use. Old hair, cardboard boxes, egg shells, vegetable peelings, and tea bags are all going to be gobbled up by these creepy-crawlies lickety-split.

These slender body bilateral invertebrates are going to eat just about any garbage. However there is some that will not be good for them.

Many people will have the urge to feed their worms manure; the thought is worms are gross, manures gross, probably since worms are gross they like all gross things. The fact of the matter is worms do not enjoy manure, mainly just a lot of other gross stuff.

Manure will make your worms sick and could possibly kill them. Other foods to avoid feeding your worms would be anything with high acidity especially pineapple.

There is a specific nutrient called bromelian in pineapple that these squirmy worms are severely allergic to, and if they come in contact with it they will eat it cause they don't know better, then they will die. So make it a special point to put your high acidic compost in a different bucket that doesn't contain any worms.

Now that "bucket" was mentioned, it is good for you to know that is where you should keep your worms, in a bucket. You do not want to have tons of worms in your garden; that would be just gross.

Besides if you did want to get rid of your acidic compost it would be convenient to be able to use it as fertilizer, and if your worms were in the garden then they would be chased off by some of that more acidic garbage. So keep your worms in a nice cozy bucket, they will love that.

Some good bugs to have crawling through your garden, would be lady bugs, bumble-bees, butterflies (not caterpillars), spiders, and praying mantises. These bugs are going to be the predatory bugs that keep the plant eating bugs out of the garden.

So use worms to fertilize the garden, and also to cut back on your compost.