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Why would you want to? Earthworms are a huge asset in the garden/lawn. They aerate the soil and fertilize.
Because we are SO Inundated with them they are Actually Killing Our Just re done & new grassed yard (after a year of chink bugs +, killing grass, we got All out, rototilled, made soil great for new grass/re-Grass In S Ca!)It was Beautiful..till I kept seeing what I thought to be ant hills (but had No Exit or entrance holes, nor sings of ants!). The saw Worm Butts(heads?), Sticking up & out, even in the Sand Box, while we watch our new lawn just dieing agai9n,right before our eyes!
I do not agree. There can be too many earthworms and their castings can turn the soil rock hard and virtually unusable.
I totally agree! Earthworms are your garden's best friend! Some people actually buy them in order to improve their soil.
I have forty years of experience with gardening and earthworms. The worms we have totally destroy a perennial flower bed in about five years. They eat the organic material and leave the clay. You can hardly get a spade in. The lumps are full of tunnels like cheese. Sure it's aeriated, but nothing will grow in clay lumps. I hate earthworms. Bring your spade and dig up all you want...free.
I agree totally, we have the same, to many and our soil is like clay, dont ever get any.
Honestly, you don't want to. They are what is keeping your soil healthy. Unless you really want a dry space with no vegetation?
My lawn at night is literally cover with nightcrawlers .Cant get ride of the moles thanks to this !
Oh don't kill them. Earthworm casings are the best planting medium. They are so wonderful for the ground. I've even had them in house plants. Leave them alone.
I recently spent most of an afternoon, raking leaves away in a wooded area and collecting earthworms to put in my garden. They can break up heavy soil and the castings actually fertilize the soil. Healthy veggies in healthy soil are less attractive to the pests that damage the plants. I purposely avoid chemical fertilizers in my garden to make sure that the worms are protected.
I second each answer they are wonderful for the earth. I even bought some for my raised flower beds. I saved them from a fish hook, LOL
You don't say where you're from or what kind of soil you have. While earthworms are great, in some soils (clay for instance), they aren't so good.
Not that I mind the worms but they are getting into the house! That is a nuisance!
I do not have a thing against earth worms just the moles they attract, I only want them out of my yard. The worms and the moles can have the 10 acres. Moles love worms and I have too many. Gary Western Washington.
My guess is that none of you who have posted not to get rid of earthworms have never had too many. After about 20 years struggling with what they do to my vegetable garden and flower beds, I've given up. I will now kill them. When you have too many, they deplete the soil of organic matter and it clumps. (I add compost every year, sand the last couple.) I'm digging potatoes now and the soil comes up in big hard clumps.
I have a huge worm casting problem in my lawn. Like 6 to 8 four inch mounds of dirt sticking up in each square foot of yard. I really don't care how "wonderful" worms are for my soil. It's my soil, now, and it want the worms gone. So, Sevin it is. ( LOL. I love it when tree huggers ruin their good works by accident.)
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