Sharon, you are right about the worm castings. THey are absolutely wonderful for deterring the "bad" bugs from the garden. We live some distance away from a worm farm and one year I bought a 50 pound bag of the castings. I spread them all around my gardens, but did not have nearly enough. It was too far to go and get another bag of castings, but I believe that the gardens were helped immensely. We are really lucky, in that we have worms coming out our ears in my gardens. Eveywhere I dig I find worms and worms and more worms. Yeah!!!!! And holy smoke, when I turn over my enormous (and I mean enormous) compost pile, the worms almost make you scared there are so many. It is like going into an alien world of twisting, curling, moving, slithery little critters. Ooops, just thought of another thread that I am going to start. Have a wonderful day, beautiful life and health. Cindi