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Growing Potted Plants with Red Wiggler worms Eisenia Foetida

Updated on May 14, 2017
Red Wigglers for potted plants
Red Wigglers for potted plants | Source

Growing potted plants using healthy soil will create nothing but good garden produce. Whether you’ll be growing fruits, vegetables, herbs, or even flowers, planting these in soil that is well-nourished, will develop well through time; more so when you pot them using red wigglers castings. Compost from worms are food waste that are broken down during a quick timeframe. These organic scraps, in their finer and richer form, will also return back to the earth with more nutrients in tow. Apart from its other beneficial uses, it also helps support all the other microbes that also depend on the soil for their survival.

Red Worms Castings

The physical look of worm castings actually resemble that of the soil from the ground. It’s crumbly to the touch, and is also dark-brown in shade (although it’s also been referred to as black topsoil).

The benefits to using red wiggler worms castings

Red wiggler worms are certainly important organisms that can truly help build beneficial soil. Besides turning organic wastes into rich soil, red worms also have the ability to aerate the soil that they’re in, (helps introduce oxygen into the soil), and also enhances the soil conditions for all the other beneficial organisms present in the soil (such as good bacteria, fungus, etc.).

The Eisenia foetida (the scientific name for red wiggler worms) worm is actually a vegetarian. It only means that this earthworm only eats off of natural materials (except for a few wastes such as meat or poultry, as these are much harder to breakdown). Now the great thing about this worm is their digestive process since they help create soil that is made out of decomposing organic wastes. They can certainly consume a selection of kitchen scraps and garden wastes, and have these excreted into a nutrient-rich kind of soil amendment and organic fertilizer.

Red Wiggler Composting Worms on potted plants
Red Wiggler Composting Worms on potted plants

The value of worm castings to potted plants

The application of worm castings on potted plants can be very beneficial in several ways as it allows the nutrients to be made readily available to the plants (as opposed to chemical fertilizers that still needs to be broken down through a certain period of time). It can help improve the structure of the soil, help improve its water retention ability, as well as keep the soil healthy and protected from potential diseases. A worn out soil, when applied with worm compost can be gradually brought back to its best shape (applying red wigglers castings can also help prevent soil compaction, therefore lets the roots to spread expansively). When the soil is healthy, organic matter such as plants will be able to develop further and increase in yield. Plants that are rooted into a well-nourished system will also be warded off of plant diseases.

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