Worms in landscape gardening

Landscape gardening has become a sophisticated and high tech. industry as the demands and standards of the paying customer have grown, particularly over the last 20 years or so. The days of putting in some soil, laying a bit of turf and a patio are rapidly being consigned to the past. The customer is much more aware that gardens are living areas, not only for their use but for nature that it is hoped will take up residency and contribute to addressing the balance.
The design, planting mediums, trees, shrubs, all things green and the hardlandscaping are crucial to this being a successful project.

For the softlandscaping to get off to a good start, the soil and growing mediums have to be given serious and careful consideration, it is no longer acceptable to rotovate up existing areas, import some "topsoil" add a bit of peat and fertilizer and hope for the best! how many projects looked great at the start and then become problematic? Foliage, whether its grass or trees need more than just fertilizers and water, the success of all plants is dependant on the early establishment and expansion of the root system, even this needs to be at the correct rate, too quick or the wrong emphasis on the roots can cause problems later on. Nature, when it has not been "helped" (interfered with) usually manages to have the right balance, the whole environment around the establishing root systems is teaming with micro life of all sorts from bacteria, through fungii up to larger creatures including earthworms, in fact, it is the action of earthworms and these other creatures, acting on the building blocks that create this super environment, a far cry from the dry, lifeless, unbalanced, alien environment normally provided for the plants out of a bag! This can be vastly improved upon simply by innoculating these lifeless mediums with the right products. First, by adding wormcasts, all the beneficial micro life - bacteria, fungii and beneficial bugs will be present, along with nutrients, providing the planted area is kept moist, this micro life will grow and flourish. Secondly, when the system has matured, innoculate with earthworms, the worms will establish and grow as all their needs will have been provided; as the population expands more worm casts will be produced, more nutrients, more micro life, all to the benefit of the growing plants, oh, and if this wasn't enough, research shows that this natural environment around the roots contributes significantly to the plants ability to fight disease and bug attack - just as nature intended!