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Mon, Oct 31, 11 at 22:11
| Early this summer I spread layers of greens and browns on top of our bare unamended clay soil to prepare new beds in our side yard. I started with layers of wet newspaper, then added alternating layers of browns and greens, and gave it some water now and then to keep it damp in summer. The beds were mounded no higher than about a foot.
Today, I planted a Lemon Verbena from a large pot. Just one shovel full of soil was full of big fat worms! This was worth all the work I spent building the layers in June. I just wish I'd done it in other areas that are still bare and dry from summer. |
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| Just one more testament to why organic matter is needed in soils. Earthworms, and the other members of the Soil Food Web, cannot live in soils that lack adequate organic matter. |
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| I recently read an Mother Earth article on worm composting using regular outside worms. Trouble is, no outside worms in the yard now. Anyone tried regular garden worms versus the composting worms Eisenia foetida? |
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