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Re: Worms!

On 10:24 AM 4/8/98 +0000, Catherine Samir wrote:
>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....

First, prepare the soil where you want the worms to live.  Then carefully
move the bark and the worms to the *top* of the soil where you want the
worms to live.  Lightly disturb the bark a few times for a few days, and
the worms will go down into the soil!  Easy!  Then you can remove the bark
from the top of your soil. 

If the soil under the bark is the *only* place to garden, consider getting
a few planters and filling them with rich soil/compost.  Then put some
wormy bark on top of the planter for a few days, remove the old wormless
bark as the worms leave the bark and enter the soil/compost and add more
bark until you have moved all the worms from bark to soil.  Then you will
have planters of soil/compost full of worms and can work the soil that was
under the bark, then add the soil/compost and worms to it.  1/2 barrel
planters will hold a fair amount of soil/compost and worms :-).


HTH

jc

>
>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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