- Earthworms eat and burrow twenty-four hours a day!
- All of this tunneling aerates the soil (getting oxygen to the roots), allows for easier root growth, and improves water retention
- Earthworms consume ordinary soil and cast it back with more nutrients available to plants
- One box of 200 worms covers 100 sq. ft.
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Earthworms eat and burrow twenty-four hours a day! All of this tunneling aerates the soil (getting oxygen to the roots), allows for easier root growth, and improves water retention. Earthworms consume ordinary soil and cast it back with more nutrients available to plants. These "castings" release their nutrients slowly and do not leach out with watering.
NUTRITION:
These earthworms will eat the soil in your garden and cast it back with 5 times more nitrogen, 1.5 times more calcium, 3 times more magnesium, 7 times more phosphates, 11 times more potash and 40% more humus. Plant nutrients from earthworms (odorless castings) retain moisture, don t leach out with watering and are released slowly instead of in one large dose. Worm castings feed plants for weeks, even months. They will neutralize acid or alkaline excess and they don t use up organic carbons, as chemicals often do. Looks like Mother Nature knows what she s doing!
DIRECTIONS:
Garden Areas: Dig 6 inch diameter, 1 foot deep holes several feet apart though out the garden. Fill with water and let drain. Put one or two handfuls of worms in each hole, fill loosely with soil and compost (cuttings, table scraps, etc.) This will give the worms a quick meal. Water the area and apply mulch if possible over and around the holes. Keep the area watered.
Compost Pile: Place worms on the bottom of 4 inches of loose soil. Keep damp as you continue to add decaying organic material. For best results, add some organic material along with the worms to get them feeding. You may use moist corn meal, coffee grounds, table scraps, grass clippings, or other organic material.
One box of 200 worms covers 100 sq. ft.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a strong "3 star" rating....,
By JAF "JAF1960" (Southern, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 200 Live Earth Worms - Improve Soil
Would rate this as 2.5 stars if possible.
Hirt's was very fast w/the delivery, which I have found them to be very fast with delivery on other items in the past. All the worms were alive, so no complaint there..... My complaint is "200 live Earth Worms"..... there is just NO WAY there was anything close to 200. I'll be generous and say there were 2 dozen live Earth Worms. So, all in all, I was happy to receive the worms. Have not found any dead worms in any of the potted plants since I let them go in each pot. But, I take strong exception to false advertising. Because of this I will not be making a repeat purchase of Earth worms through Hirt's. My local garden center carries live worms, lady bugs, etc. I was trying to save gasoline by ordering on line but this is not a good deal (not to me, at least) for the price plus S&H for the amount received. Sorry, Hirt's
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
awful,
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This review is from: 200 Live Earth Worms - Improve Soil
I'm very dissapointed because there weren't any worms at all in the container when it arrived... i got a $15 cup of dirt... not one single worm or even dead ones... just dirt...
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
No Worms! Just dirt!,
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I was very thorough while looking through my Earth Worm container and it honestly was only a bucket of dirt. There was not a single worm in it. We hoped that maybe there were eggs, so we took the container of dirt and put it in a pot, but we never saw a single worm in there either. Very disappointed!
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