The Frame It All worm box is an essential component to every raised garden, to add to the quality of the soil and in doing so provide for sturdier and healthier veggies, fruits, and flowers. Locate it in the soil in the deepest of your raised garden beds. The easy-to-assemble, affordably-priced, Worm Box – no tools required, has multiple entrances on every surface to encourage worms to take up residence. Add chopped-up leaves, grass clippings, torn-up wet newspaper, and mealtime scraps to create your own compost. You’ll be amazed at just how much this will improve your soil. Through our activity in the soil, earthworms offer many benefits: increased nutrient availability, better drainage, and a more stable soil structure, all of which help improve your productivity. Worms feed on plant debris (dead roots, leaves, grasses, manure) and soil. Our digestive system concentrates the organic and mineral constituents in the food they eat, so our casts are richer in available nutrients than the soil around them. Nitrogen in the casts is readily available to plants. Worm bodies decompose rapidly, further contributing to the nitrogen content of the soil. Worms often leave our nutrient-rich casts in our tunnels, providing a favorable environment for plant root growth. The tunnels also allow roots to penetrate deeper into the soil, where they can reach extra moisture and nutrients. Earthworm tunneling can help incorporate nutrients and fertilizer into the soil. The extensive channeling and burrowing by earthworms loosens and aerates the soil and improves soil drainage. Soils with earthworms drain up to 10 times faster than soils without earthworms. Our tunnels also act, under the influence of rain, irrigation, and gravity, as passageways for nutrients and other material. With extensive garden bed designs, you may want to consider using several worm boxes.
We had to glue the handle on because it pops off easily when trying to pull the lid open. We hope that the plastic will hold up. It is a nice size for our family of two and our purpose.. Timothy. Oak Ridge, TN. Sun Jan 22 2023
