Earth worms and house plants?

I was wondering if it's a dumb idea to put earth worms in the soil where your house plant is(it's in a pot)?



Why or why not?

Earth worms and house plants?
The worms would not live very long unless there is plenty of soil around the roots for them to move through. Then it would be much better to add worm castings to the pot without the worms.

Worms eat the microscopic life in the soil, including bacteria, by swallowing the soil. As long as there is a sufficient amount of microscopic food available to the worms they will continue to live in a pot. They consume their own weight in soil each 24 hours and they weigh in at less than a gram each. So they must have enough free soil around the roots to find a fresh gram of soil to swallow daily. If your pot has plenty of soil it will not hurt the plant.

To feed them, and the plant, a seaweed emulsion would work or some other organic emulsion. You could even soak some compost overnight then run it through a wire strainer to make your own emulsion. A soil high in organics grows the soil organisms the worms consume.

"While taking apart the old terrarium/plant stand i was amazed at the soil that had been created from cypress and pine much over the years. Black as night and was just crawling with earthworms." This person had a stand with plant pots inserted in mulch. If you could put all your plants on a tray with mulch like this it will allow the worms room to move from plant to plant.

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Reply:yes but you need to feed the worms with dead matter such as banana peels, etc. and keep the soil constantly moist.
Reply:no because it the earth worm will eat the leaves and when you ater the plant you drown the earthworm lol

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