Our Garden Earthworms ( Lumbricus terrestris) are for sale in a variety of quantities for gardens of all sizes.

Buy 100 worms for each 10 sq. meters of ground.

Perfect for lawns, raised beds, topsoil and flower beds + ideal for all types of soil including clay, sandy and chalky.

Garden Worms for raised beds. When you make a raised bed often you add new soil and compost and adding worms will help with drainage, aeration and fertility. For the average-size raised bed starting off with about 50 garden worms and 250g of composting worms should be a great benefit.

Your worms will need to go into the soil within 48hrs of arriving so be prepared for when they come. To use; dig a golf ball size hole every sq meter and pop in 5-8 earthworms in each hole then gently cover over with soil.

It is best to add the garden worms to the area in the morning as they are light sensitive and this will encourage them to burrow down quicker and this way will stop any birds from taking them.

(You can also add some Composting Worms as well to improve your top soil)

Our garden worms replenish tired and impoverished soils the natural way... with lots of extra worms. Every earthworm in your garden acts as an intelligent micro-plough, aerating, draining and feeding the soil as it goes.

Our Garden Worms can also be used to re-introduce worms into the gardens on new housing estates, where building work has driven off the native worms. Restock with Garden Worms and help ensure the survival of your expensive new planting.

Use these Lob worms (Lumbricus terrestris) to increase the numbers of worms in your garden. Deep burrowing garden earthworms such as these improve your soil from the bottom up and also encourage wildlife such as birds and hedgehogs to visit.

Every worm in your garden acts as an intelligent micro-plough, aerating, draining and feeding the soil as it goes. Earthworms do not have teeth, but use a gizzard to grind up pieces of food.

Why add garden worms?

Improved nutrient availability
Worms love dead roots, leaves, grasses, manure and soil. Their digestive system concentrates the organic and mineral constituents in the food they eat, so their 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.

Worm casts release four times more phosphorus than standard surface soil. Plants love them too as they are a brilliant environment for root growth, they can also help roots penetrate deeper to more nutrients and moisture.

Improved drainage
By burrowing in the soil, worms loosen and aerate the soil and greatly improve soil drainage. Soils with earthworms drain up to 10 times faster than soils without earthworms. In zero-till soils, where worm populations are high, water infiltration can be up to 6 times greater than in cultivated soils.

Improved soil structure
Worm casts help to rebuild topsoil, they can also store moisture without it dispersing - greatly benefitting plants.

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Please note these earthworms / earth worms are native to the UK but they are produced in Canada for a Worldwide (HUGE) market that is mostly fishing. Most of them come into Europe on a ship but some are airfreighted if there is space on a passenger plane so this carbon footprint can be borne in mind when you purchase.)

In terms of safety and pathogens the worms are our native species of Lumbricus Terrestris and the reason they are harvested in Canada in Ontario is because when we exported them over there many many years ago they loved the Ontario soil and the crops they grow out there and thrived and unlike here do not have natural predators.

The worms go through the Canadian system for health certificates and then they are put into a sterile carrier which and are fully tested and certified for plant health and via Defra.

Adding over 50,000 worms to The Eden Project when it was first built. They realised the need to radically improve the soil both inside and outside the Biomes. We added garden worms which will burrow to over two metres and composting worms for the top few inches. 

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