Composting with Red Wrigglers Worms or European Night-crawlers, is the most effective way to obtain the most fertile nutrient naturally available for ages on earth for a truly fertile and highly productive garden soil.
I was always a believer in composting for a successful gardening regardless of its size. Especially if you are an organic gardening minded person and you want to take advantage of the health benefits that the fruits and vegetables you are eating are grown in an all natural organic garden.
In my past articles about composting I was writing mostly about composting with leaves, grass clippings and other vegetation available in abundance around the home. And I was also writing about the little invisible creatures that exist naturally and are making the composting possible.
The little microbes and the good bacteria that are feeding on decomposing mater, along with the oxygen in the air that create the right environment for the process of decomposing to take place.
But now is the time to write about a very essential part that the red wrigglers earthworms are playing in the composting of a lot of materials and food scraps that can be turned into a very rich and consistent organic fertilizer available of abundance, if done properly.
The Red Wrigglers are considered the most effective of all the rest of the worms for composting, because they are known to eat 24 hours a day, they eat most any vegetable scraps from the kitchen, that otherwise would be thrown into the garbage can. Each red worm can eat its body weight of food every day.
The Red Wrigglers reproduce fast, and in the right environment and a proper feeding they can double in number every 2 month.
In some future articles I will try to go in more details about Red wrigglers and other beneficial earth worms for the process of composting. How to prepare a worm bin for a red worm farm, that can be kept in your kitchen under the sink, or a utility room.
All this in an inexpensive and very affordable way with the Do It Yourself in mind, that can be accomplished rather easily by anyone interested in going green and composting for an organic gardening.
Just imagine feeding the red worms with the garbage that you would otherwise dispose of, and the little worms will transform it in "black gold" for you!
That "black gold" is called worm castings. It is a known fact that worm castings are one of natures finest plant nutrients: it is 7 times richer in phosphates, 5 times richer in nitrogen and 11 times richer in potash than the average lawn soil.
Besides the food scraps from the kitchen, these red worms will eat old shredded newspaper, any computer shredded paper, card-boards, egg cartons, egg shells, grass clippings, rotten leaves, coffee filters, coffee grinds, fruits and vegetable peelings, and more.
Now remember this; adding Red Wrigglers or European Night-crawlers to your garden, lawn, or compost pile is one of the smartest and most effective, environmentally friendly action you will ever take.
Each worm produces its own weight in castings per day. The way they multiply it is not going to be long before you will have an abundance of the finest prime natural organic fertilizer you can get for your garden, your lawn, your ornamental plants, your herb garden or your house plants.
In future articles I will explain how you can use the castings, and how to make the highly nutrient 'castings tea', to be applied and fed to your plants. There is going to be a lot of good information.
Just make sure you come back often, and see how you can use these ideas for your gardening projects.
Until next time,
Happy Gardening (and composting of course), with Red Wrigglers.
Mike Borlovan
I was always a believer in composting for a successful gardening regardless of its size. Especially if you are an organic gardening minded person and you want to take advantage of the health benefits that the fruits and vegetables you are eating are grown in an all natural organic garden.
In my past articles about composting I was writing mostly about composting with leaves, grass clippings and other vegetation available in abundance around the home. And I was also writing about the little invisible creatures that exist naturally and are making the composting possible.
The little microbes and the good bacteria that are feeding on decomposing mater, along with the oxygen in the air that create the right environment for the process of decomposing to take place.
But now is the time to write about a very essential part that the red wrigglers earthworms are playing in the composting of a lot of materials and food scraps that can be turned into a very rich and consistent organic fertilizer available of abundance, if done properly.
The Red Wrigglers are considered the most effective of all the rest of the worms for composting, because they are known to eat 24 hours a day, they eat most any vegetable scraps from the kitchen, that otherwise would be thrown into the garbage can. Each red worm can eat its body weight of food every day.
The Red Wrigglers reproduce fast, and in the right environment and a proper feeding they can double in number every 2 month.
In some future articles I will try to go in more details about Red wrigglers and other beneficial earth worms for the process of composting. How to prepare a worm bin for a red worm farm, that can be kept in your kitchen under the sink, or a utility room.
All this in an inexpensive and very affordable way with the Do It Yourself in mind, that can be accomplished rather easily by anyone interested in going green and composting for an organic gardening.
Just imagine feeding the red worms with the garbage that you would otherwise dispose of, and the little worms will transform it in "black gold" for you!
That "black gold" is called worm castings. It is a known fact that worm castings are one of natures finest plant nutrients: it is 7 times richer in phosphates, 5 times richer in nitrogen and 11 times richer in potash than the average lawn soil.
Besides the food scraps from the kitchen, these red worms will eat old shredded newspaper, any computer shredded paper, card-boards, egg cartons, egg shells, grass clippings, rotten leaves, coffee filters, coffee grinds, fruits and vegetable peelings, and more.
Now remember this; adding Red Wrigglers or European Night-crawlers to your garden, lawn, or compost pile is one of the smartest and most effective, environmentally friendly action you will ever take.
Each worm produces its own weight in castings per day. The way they multiply it is not going to be long before you will have an abundance of the finest prime natural organic fertilizer you can get for your garden, your lawn, your ornamental plants, your herb garden or your house plants.
In future articles I will explain how you can use the castings, and how to make the highly nutrient 'castings tea', to be applied and fed to your plants. There is going to be a lot of good information.
Just make sure you come back often, and see how you can use these ideas for your gardening projects.
Until next time,
Happy Gardening (and composting of course), with Red Wrigglers.
Mike Borlovan
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