Worms that increase soil fertility?
Answers: All worms will increase soil fertility.
Dr. Curtis Smith the New Mexico State University Extension horticultural expert say to compost with redworms because they will stay surrounded by the compost, but night crawlers will will.
Red worms and brandling worms prefer the compost or manure environment. Passing through the gut of the earthworm, recycled natural wastes are excreted as castings, or worm fertilizer, an organic things rich in nutrients that looks approaching fine-textured soil.
"... Earthworm castings in the home garden commonly contain five to 11 times more nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium as the surrounding soil. Secretions in the intestinal tracts of earthworms, along near soil passing through the earthworms, engineer nutrients more concentrated and available for plant uptake, including micronutrients."*
Worms should be handled near plastic gloves, because the acids and oils on human skin could eventually render them sterile, and that would not be well brought-up for breeding worms.
This site is about worms and worm composting near information and resources in the use of worms for natural waste conversion and soil enrichment:
http://www.wormdigest.org/content/view/4...
DUNG BEETLES are worth their weightiness in, okay... dung. Animal waste is their predilection and they will kindly break it down for you and plant it within the soil.
Good luck! Hope this helps.
That would be the Earthworm. They aerate the soil and give notice their droppings throughout the soil making it richer and more fertile. They are natures living fertilizers and great for the garden.
All worms will aerate the soil..however, if you want to buy some I would recommend "red wigglers" for thier breeding properties are alot quicker than most other worms,and they put out alot more eggs than the other, also increasing the abandon...They are alot smaller than regular earthworms but they 10 fold the amount of reproduction..you can order them online from the relation below..but make sure to apply them at dark, so as to keep the birds away and present them a chance to bury into your soil..This intertwine gives you an likelihood of what choice of worms you may want beyond my suggestion, but I personally prefer red wigglers..and they stay close to the top of the soil inside 1 foot..therefore aerating closer to your grass/plants roots..
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