 Hi there and welcome to my garden. My name is Tracy and I am a small-scale gardener here on the Saskatchewan Prairies in Canada. So my family and I got to enjoy a great weekend up at our cabin in Northerns, Saskatchewan this past weekend. So our favorite thing to do up at our cabin is to go fishing and so we got to do quite a bit of that this past weekend despite the the hot hot weather we have been having and our favorite way to catch fish is using worms. So as a result of that we came home with quite a few containers of these night crawlers, Canadian night crawlers. Most of these containers are empty. The worms did not make it home. They ended up in some big fish's belly or at the bottom of the lake. So after we get home from these trips I always like to to bring the leftover castings from the containers and any lucky worms that did not end up on a hook are going to, this is so gross, there's one there. I hate holding them. So all these little leftover worms that are quite active are going to be going into my garden. So before I show you how I'm going to add these into my garden and give you a little information on the benefits of why you would like to have worms in your garden, let me just show you some of my fishing adventures from the weekend. So if you've been following me on my channel or just joining me on my channel, I am a no dig type gardener. I do most of my gardening in raised garden beds and containers and also under straw. So there's no rototilling, no disturbing of the soil whenever possible. I just always try to add layers of organic material into my containers, my raised garden beds and straw so that the nutrients keep breaking down, adding nutrition to the soil. So having earthworms or nightcrawlers in my garden is a wonderful thing because they are active my little plows in the garden. So just like a plow, earthworms move through the soil of the garden, they make tunnels and these tunnels allow air and water to get to the roots of the plants. As the worms live their life in the soil, they eat organic matter such as dead leaves, grass clippings and even dirt and after they digest all these wonderful things that they have eaten, earthworms produce excretement that helps enrich the soil further. So the proper term for their waste or their poop is worm castings and when it's found in the soil it helps garden grow because it's rich in phosphorus, calcium, nitrogen and magnesium and of course these are all important nutrients that help our garden plants grow and stay healthy. So if you're not a fisher person like myself and don't have any need to go and buy nightcrawlers or fishing worms another way you can raise worms for their castings or to try and introduce some of them into your garden is using the Verma hosting system. So this is a bin that I started with red wriggler worms almost two years ago. I still have not quite mastered how to collect the castings out of this too successfully but I'm not too fussy about that but you can see what I've been doing here is just feeding them on one side of the bin trying to get them all to migrate over to this side. So they got some lettuces, bananas, coffee grinds, paper and it is quite moist and there are lots of red wrigglers doing their thing over here. So once they've all migrated to one side of the bin that's when I go to this side and try to sift through and and get the castings out and I can see that they haven't fully relocated to where all the food is so I'll just keep working at it. This is what your finished casting should look like. As you can see they're nice and dry and beautiful organic matter there to add to your plants. I've been making worm tea from this as well. These worm castings came from my good friend Marcia who has a gardening channel called White Davy Garden and Worm Farming and she's an expert on raising red wrigglers, bermicom posting and harvesting so please I'll leave her link down below please check out her channel. So I hope you enjoyed watching my video on how I use my fishing worms in the garden. If you haven't already please hit the subscribe button and click on that notification bell so you don't miss out on the next video on my channel. Thank you for watching.