Dose anyone use earthworm castings, and know what it is that makes it so good?

Answer 1

Earthworm castings are worm poo. Castings are just another source of fertilizer like cow Manure. What I don't understand is how separate the worm poo from the soil.
It boggles the mind. Here is an article that tells how and why castings are "better" than anything else ;P. Enjoy. http://www.jollyfarmer.com/earthworm%20castings.htm
Personally I'll stick to my own worms who do my garden a great service by pooing in and aerating my soil. Who needs pretentious well fed worm poo when the domestic kind is just a good. JK ;)

Answer 2

It's not just the earthworm castings that are good for a garden, it's the earthworms themselves. They loosen up the soil by tunneling and their castings have good quantities of nitrogen in them, thus enriching the soil when they leave it behind.

Answer 3

Hi! I use earthworm castings (aka worm poop) on both my garden and houseplants, and there is a definite difference for the better. I have several orchids that never bloomed until I started using castings to feed them, and they spiked and flowered within a month. I was totally converted.

I invested in a vermicomposter because the soil in the front of our house was so bad that all that lived there was ants. Grass wouldn't even grow. We had the ugliest house on the block. (It turned out that the former owner was dumping construction waste there, like concrete dust and broken glass. Can you believe it?) A vermicomposter uses redworms (redworms won't live in your garden) to digest the plant material and produce castings. It takes time (I started this last summer and kept it up through the fall, and began again in the spring when the ground thawed), but I kept mixing in compost and castings into this incredibly awful soil, and the plants I planted this spring really took hold. I also mulched last fall, using a layer of newspaper underneath cedar mulch, and the coolness of the soil underneath the mulch encouraged a large earthworm population to move in and make that barren patch of soil their home this spring.

Worm castings are valuable because they rapidly make nutrients available to plants. Worms eat and digest organic material like plant matter that is in your soil. That breaks down the plants into nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that plants need. Without worms, bacteria would have to do the job alone, and it takes a lot of time. Worm poop is also gentle and organic. I saw for myself that plants love it!

That barren patch of soil in front of my house is now a car-stopping flower garden. I've got lilies, dahlias, catmint, ornamental sages, gladiolas, roses, and cup-and-saucer vine growing like mad. We now have the prettiest front garden on our street, and when I dig into the soil, I have to dig very gently - it's full of earthworms and I don't want to hurt them.

Lots of luck,

Tiggy

Answer 4

this is a first it is better than ant castings or is it really?