My sprouts keep dieing! The last two were planted with the crack of the germinated seed facing up. But when I dug them up the root had turned around and went down rather than up! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Oh yeah and I'm bout to grab some worms and place them in the planter with my one healthy plant. Is that a good idea? I figure it will be good for the soil.
1) From what I understand (and have done), you want to plant the seeds with the root tip pointing down.
2) Worms aren't really a good idea in a small container. Different species of worms do different things, and they all need organic material and/or the proper microbes to eat.
You shouldn't need worms to aerate your potting mix; it should be light enough on its own. Also, the nutrients released in castings by just a couple of worms will be utterly negligible.
If you want to utilize worms, make a vermicomposting bin and you can use the worm castings as really good stuff in your potting mix. But if you just add a couple random worms to your potted plant, you will probably just end up with a couple of really smelly dead worms and no benefits.