Canadian Night Crawlers?

[Russ]

I don't have any worms in my compost and was wondering if it would be a good idea to place fishing worms in my compost. They are Canadian night crawlers and are kept refrigerated until use (fishing). Any ideas?

[CaptainCompostAL]

You can if you like. However if you feed the soil regularly and continously they will eventually come anyway without buying extra earthworms.

If you feed your soil lots of rich mature compost, organic matter and mineral soil additives, natural mulches, and even aerated compost tea recipes over the years, you will not only have earthworms, but more importantly you will have trillions of thriving beneficial aerobic microbes and other beneficial aerobic soil organisms living in your soil.

Keep in mind that thriving healthy colonies of hungry aerobic microbes do far more decomposition and neutralizing of compost production, and soil conditioning and soil disease fighting than even the famous classic earthworm species!

True healthy soil management attracts all kinds of aerobic beneficial soil organisms for great organic and sustainable farming.

Happy Gardening!

[Russ]

I like to fish so I've been putting the worms that I don't use for fishing in to my compost. I really think the worms like it as they are really living it up in my compost and helping me along the way. I would definitely recommend that canadian nightcrawlers in the compost, they seem to love it.