Roger A. Shrubber
Well-Known Member
you have an appropriate avatar....you're not going to get anywhere trying to convince anyone that a handful of earthworms are going to wreak havoc on a potted plants roots. because it's silly. any very small amount of nutrients a worm may consume will be more than repaid by the benefits from their shitting it back out in a form easier for the plants to consume, with many more beneficial bacteria in it than it had before.Worms will eat any organic matter that they can for waste that is what makes them so usefully in a compost bin if the roots are their best source of food they certainly can and do eat them . end of the day it's a good vs bad weight up and my comment was about allowing the worm population to get out of control and to that point and to show there are certainly ways of adding the good without the potential risks.
any "damage" they may do to a plants root (which i think is none, anyway) would be more than repaid from the increased aeration