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oh no, earth worms
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v1rtu0s1ty Zone 5, Northern IL (
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Fri, Apr 25, 08 at 20:39
| hehehe, just want to share how delighted I am to see mature earth worms this morning. I dug the soil to plant small plants with the help of my wife. I saw earthworms and my wife as well. Looks like all the organic grains and compost tea I applied last year paid off. :D Woohoo!!!
Also, about 1.5" of the soil on top is pitch black!!! I remember someone here told me that it's really good.
I need more of 'em so there is no need for my lawn to be aerated. :p |
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RE: oh no, earth worms
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| I need more of 'em so there is no need for my lawn to be aerated. :p Wait. On rich soil, they'll be happily, er, making little worms. Lots of little worms. |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| By the way, while I was also digging, I saw a color white worm around 3mm in length. It attached to my finger and the body was waving like an earthworm. I also saw black line inside the body. So it's not purely opaque white. Is that also earthworm? |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| That's a brain eating grub. It didn't....touch you, did it? Kidding. I have no idea, maybe a young larva of something? The black line is actually its digestive canal, so what you were seeing was what was moving through...probably. |
RE:... oh no, earth worms
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| Yeah, I'm sure it was her digestive canal. The moving that I was referring to was the whole lenght of the worm. His whole body was forming like the letter S shape just like a regular earthworm's movement. However, both ends were pointed. I'll dig her up again tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll see her again. HEHEHE. :) |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| I was turning my compost pile the other day (haven't really gotten deep in it for a month or two) and was sad to see it was a bit too wet near the bottom. So I went about breaking up the wet matter and spreading it out to dry out a bit and was pleasantly surprised to see about 5 HUGE earthworms. I'm talking almost as thick as a finger and probably 6-12" long. Those buggers must have been going to town on the pile. :) |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| "I saw earthworms and my wife as well." I have to ask - what was your wife doing down in the soil? Is this something we should be reporting to the authorities? :-) Gags |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| ^^^^^----LOL Gags! And congrats v1rtu0s1ty, you have inherited earthworm love. Keep 'em happy and they'll keep you happier! -Jeremy |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| LOL gags. Hahaha! I really meant "my wife saw worms as well when she was digging! :D Thanks again guys! :) |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| Congratulations!!! Nothing makes an organic gardener happier then earth worms. Welcome to the team. |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| Thanks. :) By the way, just an FYI. There was a big weed(dandelions) near my walkway. I used my shovel to pull it out. The root was like 10" long. While I was slowly removing the soil, I found 4 earthworms around the roots! Hmmm, got curious, looks like there is good nutrients from these dandelions. I noticed too that when I tore the root apart, a whitey liquid substance slowly came out. Maybe, that's what the earthworms is sucking?! Interesting. :) |
RE: oh no, earth worms
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| I think the earthworms may have been interested in the exudates of the root. I have not heard of them actually sucking out anything from living plants. |
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