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Have a handful of Vermicompost and keep in the soil every one week. Highly enriched. Composting is a fundamental practice of organic gardening. Biological decomposition reduces kitchen waste and plant matter into a beneficial soil amendment while lightening landfill loads. Vermicomposting tweaks the benefits of traditional composting with the help of some unlikely facilitators -- earthworms. Advantages of vermicompost include enriching soil, increasing harvest yields and suppressing plant disease.After earthworms digest organic matter, they excrete a nutrient-rich waste product called castings. As food passes through their digestive tract, worms secrete chemicals that break down organic matter into sustainable nutrition. These chemicals, excreted with their castings, comprise vermicompost, which improves soil texture, structure and aeration. From the Latin “vermi,” which means worm, vermicompost offers nutrients that are immediately available to plants. It can be applied as mulch, incorporated as a component in potting mixes or brewed in water as a compost tea liquid fertilizer.