The Alabama Jumper has two main beneficial components. First, it is an excellent composting earthworm for your garden or lawn areas even in hard packed clay and sandy soils. They burrow deep, aerating the soil coming to the surface to eat and leave worm castings on the surface areas.

Alabama Jumpers also make an excellent fishing worm. With their tough exterior skin permitting them to burrow through the toughest terrains, they remain on the hook better than most fishing worms, including the European Nightcrawlers.

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Bruce

After a week of a number of rainy days and the rain being cold as temperatures only in the 40′s and 50′s while raining, the worms are doing well.

I pulled back the hay and decomposing materials and carefully used a pitchfork to turn the top few inches of the clay and sand mix. The Alabama Jumpers were right there doing fine and active!

When I ran a temperature test of the soil it ranged from 54 to 56 degrees Fahrenheit.

Since there are no hard facts or statistics on Alabama Jumpers as compared to other red worms, I figured I would keep an eye on these guys and monitor them. I will keep a record of my findings here on the blog. Be sure to bookmark or sign up for the Worm Composting Newsletter to keep abreast of the latest updates!

Alabama Jumpers are available from Organic Worm Farm and are great for clay and sandy soils.

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Bruce Galle

Now for anyone unfamiliar with Alabama Jumpers, these red worms that readily live in clay and sandy soils. They have a tough skin which enables them to survive under the harsher conditions most red worms would have difficulty surviving.

Alabama Jumpers will borough through and aerate your soil. At the same time, they eat organic matter, shredded paper and cardboard, grass clippings (not piled up), hay (not straw) leaves… but will not harm plant roots, or anything else in your yard or garden. They will come towards the surface to release their castings (worm poop) also known as “Black Gold”. This produces a naturally balanced PH soil as well as adds millions of beneficial microbes to the soil.

Just two weeks earlier I placed 1,200 Alabama Jumper Red Worms outside and covered them with some hay, notice I did not say straw as you do not want to use the straw! I placed them outside our main yard area near the edge of the woods since we have ample property here. Now over time these critters will migrate and spread out in the backyard.

Just amazing to see the new growths within two weeks while the surrounding edges of the woods are almost barren of living greenery.

Here is the picture I snapped yesterday.

If you are looking to get your hands on some Alabama Jumpers or other varieties of Red Worms, visit Organic Worm Farm as they offer some healthy worms at a great price.

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Bruce Galle

Mark D. – Texas

First off Alabama Jumpers are different from other worms we sell. One, they do not eat food scraps but rather organic material from leaves (limit oak leaves) hay (not straw), shredded newspaper and cardboard… Basically carbon based products.

Setup an area with clay or sandy soil in your yard or garden area. Place some bedding material and be sure it is wet down so as it is damp.

I recommend you release your worms outdoors once the sun sets behind the tree or landscape background so as not to burn them up.

Place your worms on top of the pile and mist a little water on top of them to get the worms moving.

Do NOT spread your worms out throughout your yard or garden. Rather place at least 500 in each pile. The worms will eventually begin to breed and spread out as they multiply. If you spread them out to thin, they will have difficulty finding each other to breed.

Bruce