I have been using composting worms for a long time. For the last couple of years I have just put the composting worms right in my garden, applying a lot of mulch around my plants and have had no problems with the worms bothering my plants. I want to do this on a larger scale. We just purchased an avocado grove and are transitioning to organic. I want to put down a good layer of wood chips around each tree and add some composting worms also to help compost the wood chips faster. I will also continue to add organic mulch around the trees to continue the process. So my question is: do composting worms stick to composting dead material or will they also chew on the live roots and cause damage?
