Thanks for coming out and sharing. Do you feed the worms in the plants, or just let them be? How many worms do you put into what sixed container?? I never considered adding composting worms to potted plants :) Another use for my squirm!

Pete

Most of my veg garden is in containers. All of the containers are open at the bottom and I have found worms "naturally" in each container when working with them. My containers are 10 to 15 gallons for the most part - none smaller than 10.

With your system how often do you mix in new organic material and how do you add it.

Thus far I have been adding partial composted material each spring when planting the containers. This tends to be a labor intensive endeavor as I remove most of the soil and mix it outside the container. By mid to late season it always seems my containers need a little more to keep going.

Thanks for sharing @nightcrawler46! I have found earthworms in one of my containers not too long ago and my garden is on a balcony 8 floors up! I don't know how it got to my container but i left it in there. I don't know if it's still in the container since i found it but i have recently mixed in some organic matter and hope that the worm will make castings within the soil.

i found a bunch of regular earth worms in my garden by my plants near the surface they are burrow worms i believe but they NEVER harmed my plants. only thing i found to actually harm my plants that are worm like are grubs. those bastards eat my plants ):

so yes i don't believe regular worms like red worms will harm your plants like some people say. maybe other species will but im no worm expert.

>>I have found people who talk smack about earthworms usually have no evidence to back it up, or they say some ridiculous thing like "the worms ate my roots".>>

These people may be confusing insect larvae with earthworms. Some insects in larvae form are commonly called 'worms'. Army worms for example. Or they may be thinking of certain grubs that actually DO eat plant roots.