Boost your soil with worms

摘要

Earthworms play an important role in processes occurring in your soil. Earthworms have generally been underestimated and overlooked as major contributors to physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring in soils, but they are an important component of the soil ecosystem. If there were no soil fauna, leaves and twigs dropped from plants would simply accumulate at the soil surface and would not become incorporated. Instead, soil fauna make vital components such as nitrogen and carbon available for use by growing plants and other organisms. Earthworms are a major group of large fauna that play a significant role in the dynamics of a healthy soil. Earthworms ingest and excrete both organic and mineral components as they travel through the soilin search of food. They feed on dead plant tissue and the fungi, bacteria, and other microorganisms associated with it.