Quick queston, on worm........

I put worms in the soil of my outdoor plants, they seem to like it. My worms are little red worms that are only 2-3 inches, I'd be scared to put a 1 ft worm in my soil.

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I put worms in the soil of my outdoor plants, they seem to like it. My worms are little red worms that are only 2-3 inches, I'd be scared to put a 1 ft worm in my soil.

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putting night crawlers in your soil will help airate the soil and fertilize it. the worms eat the dirt and brake down all of the unused nutients and digest it.

Don't dry them, put them in the soil alive, they are very beneficial.Soma uses them sometimes in his gardens.Also i saw you talking of worm casings I was wondering if you ment worm castings, because castings are different it's mostly worm poop(great fertilizer) not dried ground worms...peace

Would you be adding your ferts while the worms are in there? Do you know how they would react to that? Dead rotting worms in the planter doesn't sound appealing. I know from composting that any foods that are high in salt will kill worms so how would react to other chemicals?

mogie said:

Would you be adding your ferts while the worms are in there? Do you know how they would react to that? Dead rotting worms in the planter doesn't sound appealing. I know from composting that any foods that are high in salt will kill worms so how would react to other chemicals?

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Soma uses them in his gardens sometimes, but he only uses only organic, and I don't think Soma would add anything to his garden that was harmful to worms....What i'm saying is you should becareful what things you add to the soil if you want to use live worms otherwise you are right rotting worms doesn't sound like a good thing...LOL....

mogie said:

Would you be adding your ferts while the worms are in there? Do you know how they would react to that? Dead rotting worms in the planter doesn't sound appealing. I know from composting that any foods that are high in salt will kill worms so how would react to other chemicals?

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Yes I meant castings.....but also the dried up worms...so you guys are all on the same page ....I can catch nite crawlers....they can be up to 1 -11/2 foot long....so I can put them right in the soil they won't bother the roots......Mogie I guess the worm poop is a the rage...so I may try to stop all nutes and just use worms....during the spring, summer and fall. I just don't want to kill any plants I don't have ANY that I could spare to loose,...... I hope all I have read, is true that you can put these worms in your pots....but why not if they were outdoors they would have worms in the soil.....so I guess I shall try it with one....which one....you guys pick....Roadtrip, Trainwreck, Hollands Hope, Blueberry, or Northern Lights?????

I was just wondering, if anyone has anymore ideas on the worm idea please let me know.....or at least let me know what your ideas are....we can maybe brainstorm together b4 I do damage to my plants.... but I want them to have natural worm castings, and to get the soil airiated.....

id guess that keeping the worms alive would be ur best bet, theyll aerate the soil more when theyre alive n moving, and the soil will get the natural furt too

Thanks guys for all your help...I will definetly trying this with one of the babies....can't hurt them after this week.... I think I can rationalize this experiment......SO anyone else have first hand experience with this??

now i want to go fishing.

Do you need me to send you some nite crawlers.....to fund this fishing trip?.....I'll bring the worms you bring the 'erb!

I was thinking about this earlier today.. as I was making a compost out of a 5gal bucket actually. I had some left over worms from my last fishing trip, so I decided hell, why not.

I plan on putting 1 worm in with 1 of my plants in a 1gal pot tomorrow. I am curious to see how this affects the plant.

Depends on your pot size to. A foot and a half long worm is pretty fricken big man. Try putting the smallest ones you can find first. remember if they die the decomposing body will take away nutes.

I think the most benefit you could get is to just harvest the worm castings and mix it in with your soil. Here is more info than any pot head needs to know about worms and worm shit:

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=6

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=8

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=9

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=4

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=5

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=7

We raise worms for castings and live bait. If you are going to put them in a container, you will need to add a significant amount of organic waste for compost because most varieties of worms eat their own weight in organic matter daily. They also need to be kept cool if they are African or Canadian nightcrawlers or the smaller Red Wrigglers. So your lights might do them damage because of the heat and the worms need to burrow deeper than your container may allow.

Good luck.