Do you have worms?

We grow our garden naturally also. We do use commercial fertilizer for the rhubarb. We use rabbit poop for fertilizer for everything else and we make our own soil with our composting pile. We have lots of leaves in our area so it works well. We do use worms also. earth worms and other worms as well

A good tip for increasing the number of worms in your yard is to work organic material into your soil. We haul out all the kitchen scraps including the coffee grounds (worms love coffeee grounds), and mix it in with soil. When we first brought our house, the soil was not good. Te worms were rare and rather small too. In the four years here, our worm population has increased and they are larger; the soil is much better too.

I have geckos so I am constantly ordering crickets and meal worms for them. It is less expensive to buy them that way than to go to the pet store and pay 5-25 cents a cricket. http://www.wormman.com has all kinds of stuff like red worms and night crawlers. I buy the redworms and put them in my compost pile to speed up the process. It is an excellent way to get rid of vegetative scraps and they make compost really fast. The natural way is the only way. I don't use chemical fertilizers like Miracle Grow on my food because it doesn't taste half a good and it also leaves residual salts in the soil.

yes i have the african night crawler. . but i grow them in a controlled pit. and use the casting for the plant. excellent nutrient. rich in micro nutrient and harmones.