What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here and today we're back with Emily Luba.

Hope you're enjoying this podcast series no matter where you're listening to it.

Your coffee, having a morning coffee, taking a stroll, hopefully walking through the garden and checking out what's going on while you're listening to this sweet sweet podcast.

Anyways, today we're back here with Emily and we're talking about how to take worm castings into your garden.

What does that tie in?

How can they improve your soil?

How can they improve your fertility?

How even could you potentially fertilize your lawn with worm castings. So Emily has a

lot to say here. I think we have a great little conversation so I'm going to go

ahead and just get right into it. All right back with Emily Luba, the Crazy Worm Lady, and today we're talking about the connection

between your worm castings and your garden soil.

So of course we all know that worm castings have quite a few benefits but I think I'm going to let

Emily talk about her unique situation growing in Maryland and the type of soil she has as well

as what worm castings have done for that soil.

Yeah, so I started primarily doing the worm composting

because I wanted to organically garden and I hadn't had a whole lot of success gardening at all in my life up until that point.

And the first year that we grew even though we did have some compost late in the season,

didn't see a whole lot that first year.

But my whole idea was learning about this whole microbial activity that kind of is present in the compost and I knew from what I had read

that it would be really helpful in trying to break up some of that clay but also help with water retention. It kind of can work in

both ways, either with retention or with drainage. It's so beneficial that way and

also the nutrient value was important to me to be able to feed my plants, especially plants that I wanted to be eating.

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