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Why are Red Wiggler worms the best vermicomposting worms?


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Red Wrigglers are in fact the best worms for vermicomposting. Try these compost worms as they are considered to be better than the Night Crawler kind. They can plow for you, help turn and keep your soil aerated, as well as eat their way through your organic wastes.

Your type of Red Wrigglers
Red wiggler worms, also known as Eisenia foetida, are deemed as the best compost worms for gardening and/or farming. And when compared to Night Crawler worms (which doesn’t do much burrowing and dwell in very inhabited surroundings), your red worms will (more or less) never be found well-hidden underground.

Your Wrigglers love those biodegradable wastes!
Biodegradable wastes are usually found from plant and/or animal sources. These are typically broken down by different kinds of life forms; and worms happen to be one of these living organisms. This is where your untreated, recyclable materials come into the picture. You should know that your composting worms are at their best when they’re given the right supply of food. These beneficial biodegradable wastes can be in the form of: fruit and vegetable peels, grass clippings, leaves, and animal manure (not the fresh kind though). Your red wigglers digest these organic materials, and eventually produce out of them a quality-made natural fertilizer.

A few Red Wrigglers’ characteristics
Your red worms composting are very easy to raise; and they are the best composters in producing quality and valuable natural fertilizers. Apart from that, these lively worms can survive and thrive in temperatures that are between 16 to 28 degrees Celsius, or 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. They are observed to be more proactive and productive during their tolerated warm temperatures. Also make sure that you give them the right amount of food supply, as fattening them too much is not a good idea. They are, in fact, also very busy eaters. They usually eat as much as 1 to 1½ of their own body weight. This on the otherhand, turn out to be worm manure. Worm manure or castings are nutrient-filled and are definitely non-toxic. Their produce of castings are rich in Nitrogen (5 times richer), Phosphate (7 times richer), and Potassium (11 times richer).
These vermicomposting worms are not only good in producing valuable compost for your plants and soil. You can further benefit from them by putting them up as red worms for sale. Just as long as they are well taken cared of, they will surely give back to you ten-fold. They are unquestionably the best compost worms to date. 

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