Earthworms improve soil conditions through aeration by burrowing in pursuit of food. They aerate the soil, constantly tilling it and making it more pliable and light, providing channels for easy and deep root growth. This continuous aeration of the soil results in less evaporation and surface runoff, thereby providing for more efficient use of moisture introduced to the soil. The Earthworm's intricate digestive tract makes it possible for them to excrete highly nutritious fertilizer known as casting. The increases are directly attributed to the organic matter eaten by worms.
Castings are water soluble and immediately available to plan life.
Castings do not heat and will not burn plants regardless of the quantity made available to the plant. Earthworms, eggs to adults, are shipped in ventilated containers mixed with peat moss. Large container covers up to 500 square feet. Trichogramma are tiny insectary grown wasps that attack over 200 pest species including the eggs of codling moth, fruitworms, cane borers, corn earthworms and almost all moth and butterfly eggs that hatch into worm pests. The parasite is effective by killing the pests before they damage the plant.