Should I add worms to my garden?

Kara Tabian: As you build soil, you will make an environment for more worms and they will increase. In a pile of compost that doesn't get hot or has already been hot, you can multiply red worms after you've added them to the pile.. Be sure to keep it damp and add vegetable matter

Lue Podewils: Get a bunch and put in. The population will adjust to the situation. Earthworms love corn meal. Sprinkle some on the ground surface and they will find it and eat it.

Tyree Allenbrand: If you use compost in your raised bed and provide organic amendments, once per month, during the winter, the worms will come (assuming the bottom of your bed is open soil). Don't use chemical amendments if you want to attract worms and other beneficial living things to your garden beds.

Bruno Galasso: In a word, no.Earthworms are very beneficial to the soil, but buying them in is not the answer. If your soil is a good environment for worms to live in, it will already have worms.! If it does not already have worms, then that means it is in some way a poor environment for them, and buying in worms will not fix that. The added worms will just die within a fairly short time.Also, you'll probably struggle to find earthworms for sale. Most worms you can buy (for wormeries, or as live bait) are actually compost worms such as tiger worms. These can only live in decomposing organic matter. If you put them in the soil, they will quite quickly die....Show more