, i have read a lot of things about making your own compost and that if i can wait longer before planting on the ground, i can use a year for planning and preparing my ground soil to be healthy by just dumping backyard found compost like leaves, and woodchips and barks and all that and just leave it there for one year, while the scraps from the kitchen, like egg shells(my husband said to wash it before putting it in the compost bin), and peelings from vegetables, and egg cardboards, newspapers etc, can go to the recycling bin. Then buy or find earth worms , put them in the same recycling bin, and let them do their thing.And this, can be used after 6 months. But i can't wait to plant that long.. 
So, since earthworm obviously lives underneath the earth, is it possible that when we plant a garden, earthworm starts crawling to the garden area? What other cheap ways can we do to prepare our soil for healthy gardening? In the Phillipines,(where i came from), i remember people putting eggshells in the pots with their plants, even in orchids hanging, you will see eggshells stuck in there somewhere.. Also, my husband likes his coffee from a french press, so can i just keep on dumping the coffee grinds on the ground and it will help fertile the soil somehow or will it attract insects or desease to the soil even if nothing is planted yet, or better yet, if there is already existing plants, can't i just pour the grinds directly to the plant?
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