03/11/2025
#🪱 Bring Back the Worms with Living Biology 🌱
At Tees Homegrown we do not buy our soil health in a bag, we build it from the ground up with living ferments, diversity and care. The secret to healthy, productive soil is not another store bought fertiliser. It is life itself.
Worms are at the heart of that living system. They are the quiet workers that turn waste into humus, that rich, dark carbon gold that holds moisture, feeds biology and keeps your plants thriving. Most soils today sit at less than one percent humus when truly healthy soil should be closer to five percent. Worms and microbes working together can rebuild that balance faster than anything else on earth.
How to Help Worms Thrive in Your Garden
Healthy soil is never bare. Keep your garden covered with living mulch and plenty of plant variety. A light 20 to 25 millimetre layer of natural mulch helps regulate moisture and protect the soil from the hot sun, but the best cover of all is living plant roots.
The more different plant families you have growing at one time, the stronger your soil life will become. Roots release compounds that feed the soil microbes which in turn feed the worms that feed the plants. It is one big living cycle that keeps your soil active and balanced.
Plant green manures and cover crops between your veggies or under your fruit trees, things like clover, vetch, mustard, lupin buckwheat, parsely, dill, oregano, sunflowers, calendula, marigolds, tillage radish, broccoli and even carrots and beetroots or oats. Let them act as living mulch, shading and feeding the soil at the same time. When they start to flower, chop and drop them and you will see your worm numbers explode.
Feed the Soil, Not the Plant
Forget fertilisers. Feed your soil life instead. Sprinkle a little compost, worm castings or one of your Tees Bio Fermentations over the mulch and water it in. These ferments are full of living microbes, amino acids and trace minerals that wake up soil biology instantly. The worms will come up, feed and drag that goodness down through the root zone.
Your living ferments replace those lifeless salt based products that harm biology. Each teaspoon carries millions of microbes ready to multiply and turn minerals and waste into humus. It is soil food, not plant food, and the worms know it.
Let Nature Do the Work
Every worm is its own little fermenter. Inside its gut, biology turns organic matter into plant ready nutrients coated in calcium and full of beneficial microbes. As worms tunnel through the soil they aerate it, move water and leave behind microbe rich castings that also help control root pests naturally.
Worms and your ferments work side by side. Your Tees Bio Ferments build the biology and the worms spread it through the soil. Together they create humus, the true foundation of healthy fertile ground.
Aim for Abundance
You will know your soil is alive when you can lift a handful and find at least twenty to twenty five worms. You do not need to dig for them, just create the conditions they love, moisture, food, gentle decomposition and many living roots in the ground. Keep your soil mulched, diverse and full of life and the worms will multiply on their own. Oh and when you harvest, cut your crops out at soil level leaving behind the roots for the life living in the soil.
Healthy soil is not built in a lab or a factory. It is created through biology, balance and a gardener who listens to the land. So start brewing, keep the roots alive, feed your microbes and let your worms do what they do best, make soil, not just dirt.
Join My Workshop
If you want to learn how to make your own living ferments, teas and soil boosters at home, join my online email workshop. I’ll show you how to grow stronger plants, richer soil and healthier food while saving money and working with nature. You can sign up anytime at https://teeshomegrown.square.site and start your journey to real soil health tonight.
