How to Attract More Earthworms To Your Garden (& Why They Matter)

These castings are colonized by bacteria, fungi, and other organisms in your soil to mobilize nutrients for your plants for EPIC harvests.

Let's practice a bit of vermiculture and encourage more earthworms in your soil. To do this, you have to provide the perfect environment for them - rich in organic matter, protected from sun and wind, and evenly moist.

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[Nikijo]

Collect and save worms after a rainfall, just walk out to the curb and look in the street gutter. You will notice after heavy rain that they will be filled with lots of live earth worms! Walk around your block and collect them all into a container and then bring them home to your the garden! If you don't they will just die a sad death in the gutter. Help your garden while saving wormy lives!

[SB-iorw]

When I built my garden beds last year, I couldn't figure out why the plants didn't produce as well as my old bed. Now I know, I had no earth worms and no compost so I was planting in a dead soil. This past fall I added rabbit poop/ leaves to all the beds and the transformation is unbelievable.

[samartinez]

Can't dig up earth in my backyard without digging up worms, I'm blessed.

[ASiteSee]

Before my parents moved out of state, they had a vegetable garden in their backyard. Along with a mulch pile. While I was growing up, my dad and I would dig in the mulch for worms to go fishing off our dock. The pile was almost always loaded. Sometimes we'd even come across night crawlers. We'd dig up the worms, put them in a cup, and cover them with dirt. It was a lot of fun, and I caught a lot of sun fish and crappies. 🐟

[bewithU]

Yes. Vermicompost. Been doing that for 7 years now to reduce kitchen waste, cardboards, papers, cotton clothings.

[karolina]

I have so many earthworms in my garden... in the beginning it freaked me out so much that I didn't want to do any gardening work (I love plants and always dreamed of having my own garden but ironically I hate bugs). Thankfully I got used to them.

[tommytigert]

Living in Florida with mostly bunk sand we don't come across loads of worms naturally, so I started a 75 gallon compost bin and bought 10 or 15 buckets of big reds they've been living and reproducing in there and I've been able to harvest out about a dozen into my potted plants in just the last three months or so.

[williamdwyer]

found your site today im just a back yard gardener who grew up in country.i was told not to rototill, because of natural macrobes in the soil.id would just use lawn mower over planting beds just before snow would fall and did compost piles.for worms I dug hole couple feet round in garden added worms, then half compost half dirt back in hole[no smell].in the spring just turn once with shovel a couple weeks before ready to plant again.was told to and worked great is plant some flowers for beneficial insects.found that red flowers two plus feet tall actract humming birds, butter flys, and dragonfly's. bee's made nest near garden.old timers taught me to set garden up like its own echo system.it take couple years to get balanced looking forward to watching more of your video's.

[alanoffer]

I started watching videos about the start of the virus in January and realised that any fresh food I could produce was going to be important . I got a heads start, but I noticed not many worms so this is a great idea

[davidrn]

I use a 5 gal plastic (food grade) bucket with holes on the bottom and sides buried to 1" from the top. I fill it with all my kitchen scraps, and then place the lid on it. I even use it during the winter, just not outside, I have an unheated greenhouse, and have a 12' x 2' bed inside that has a compost bucket in the middle.

[dutyforce]

My mum taught me the value of worms & composting when I was young.
Since then I always make sure to make a big a space as possible to make a compost. I currently have 2 very large L shaped areas that are used in succession. Everything except meat scraps & citrus goes in there.
Worm heaven!

[hardwiredtoselfdestruction]

Thank You for this video!
Reminds me of this old lady years ago (Mrs. Rose R.I.P.). She was a gardener and I use to ask her questions on how to..i remember I asked her how do you grow so much stuff to give away? She answered, "You got to feed the worms baby". I never forgot that, now im actually getting into it. Thanks again!

[airodarkwind]

Because of aquatic hobby, I learned to touch crickets and superworms. Because of gardening, I learned to touch earthworm. Now, there's no more monster that could scare me.

[TheMistressMisery]

I just found your channel, and am, coincidentally, starting my first garden. So been binge watching your content to help me better grow, thank you for this <3

[sibylc]

I would love to see a more in-depth video on the Urban Worm Bag. I’ve been thinking about getting into worm farming and this system seems so much simpler than some of the others I’ve seen.

[patriotteacher]

You missed a huge issue: the soil needs fungi, nematodes, bacteria, etc. All of those are located in the gut of worms so they distribute and create a healthy soil biome.

[claranol]

I swear every time I have a gardening question you make a video on it the next day 😂 this is seriously the most helpful channel ever!

[silkee]

My new son in law is looking to discover why his big giant family garden with tons of fancy raised beds doesn't look like my backyard garden with 100% rescued and/or recycled planters. Sometimes you get so much knowledge that you begin to forget why I know so much.😁
After a good night sleep, I decided to humble myself and share the secret for me and many others. This video is a perfect starting point for his future gardening success, which I now feel slightly accountable for... if that makes sense.

Thx for everything you do and share with the world.

[icouldjustscream]

I feel so guilty when I accidently chop a worm : < & I will try to rescue drying/dying worms from the pavement after the rain : >

[ansellovestogroworganicall]

Urban Worm bag I highly recommend - I own three and they are the best and the support from Steve the Owner is phenomenal - Had a zipper problem with one bag, he shipped new bag that day - keep old bag and gave to friend - can’t say enough good about Steve.