Worms and Healthy Plant Growth

A Beautiful & Healthy Lawn

Think about improving the soil in your lawn with worm castings and organic compost with a touch of top soil thrown in. Over time the soil will build up enough humus to not need any help growing your lawn and in the mean time it won't be putting harmful chemicals in our drinking water.

The SECRET to Top Quality Soil.

Although they consume the organic matter, the true soil nourishment comes from the micro-organisms to be found inside the worms, busily eating away. Strange but true, the worm casts have eight times as many organisms as their food does. These micro-organisms encourage healthy plant growth; the castings do not have any injurious disease pathogens, which have been reliably destroyed in the worms gut.

Worms Can Recycle Your Garbage

North Carolina's estimated 420,000 tons of food waste are buried or burned each year at considerable financial and environmental cost. Instead of discarding your food scraps, you can recycle them with the help of worms. Vermicomposting (worm composting) turns many types of kitchen waste into a nutritious soil for plants. When worm compost is added to soil, it boosts the nutrients available to plants and enhances soil structure and drainage.

Using worms to decompose food waste offers several advantages:

• It reduces household garbage disposal costs;
• It produces less odor and attracts fewer pests than putting food wastes into a garbage container;
• It saves the water and electricity that kitchen sink garbage disposal units consume;
• It produces a free, high-quality soil amendment (compost);
• It requires little space, labor, or maintenance;
• It spawns free worms for fishing.