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Re: Worms!

OOps I had a typo, the worms have been really busy making a BIG pile of
bark there little nursery, so that is my dillemna, the worms are all the
way through the bark, lots and lots of worms, it really looks like a worm
nursery.  What do I do, I can't garden with the huge pile of bark, but I
don't want to kill the worms....

At 11:53 PM 4/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Catherine S. said,
>>I trying to clean up my little back yard to day, I was gonna shovel some
>>back, and possibly through it away, well one shovel full revealed a TON of
>>earthworms!  Can I till the bark into the soil?  There is quite a bit of
>>it, and if not, should I attempt to save a some of the worms?
>
>To hell with the bark incorporation.  Those earthworms are worth their
>weight in gold to you.  They're busy processing your soil through their
>bodies, and what comes out the back end of a worm is typically better than
>what went in the front end!  Their activities also improve soil friability.
>The presence of worms in garden soil is a fine indicator of its overall
>health status.  Leave the lil guys alone.  Tilling can actually harm soil,
>but worms can only help it.
>
>--Janet
>
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