This was exciting to come home to!
Since we are trying to build up the "soil" here and do things to improve the medium that our food will be grown in, finding something like this is a great sign! It looked like a big fat one too, which means a lot of worm castings!
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EARTHWORMS AND NIGHTCRAWLERS - AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN HEALTHY SOIL
Many people are familiar with the role that worms and nightcrawlers play in the environment. While you can have "good" or "healthy" soil without their presence, I like to see them and they certainly can indicate a few things. Besides the "castings" (manure) that they create, larger ones like this nightcrawler can make impressive burrows with can aerate the soil and allow water to penetrate deeper as well! Hopefully, many more will choose to call our garden home in the future.
here's the proof:As always, I'm @papa-pepper and
proof-of-nightcrawler
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Worms, yes a big one and ready to keep digging.
What a job.
I guess they do not complain to do it.
I get excited when I see worms in my garden, too! :-D Signs of life and health like you said!
At home this time of year is probably my favourite it’s when my garden starts to come to life again. Cheers mike
Regards Venezuela. STEEM ON !.@papa-pepper Incredible here in the farm also appear worms longer than those, even get them to show in an article, on the other hand we also have a bank of worms that provides us with solid and liquid humus for plants planted
- Critic-on
Magnificent earthworm!
Cool! A whole bank of worms? Sounds excellent!
if you let me see if I get pictures of them ... and I'll give them to you
wow this worm is very big, in our place also very much worm, but now i can not show you, because now at our place is at 21:46.
we always use a worm for fishing @papa-pepper, it's so much fun.
I should think your animal friends will soon triple as you seem to be very friendly with them, and your garden becoming an abode for them @papa-pepper. This worm looks bigger than what I have seen in real life.
I hope so!
Today we planted two trees in our garden, and while digging the wholes, I occasionally cut the worm in two pieces with my shovel.
The thing both parts of that single worm seemed to be alive after that. So the question is what happened with that worm. Did I kill it or divided it and so gave single life to a second part of that worm?
How many worms should be finally alive after such division?
0, 1 or 2?
Worms can continue living after that, so hopefully you've just multiplied them. If you did kill them, then it is just more fertilizer!
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Wow..... Earthworm,i can't remember the last I saw these. That was when I was a kid and then my dad used to have a garden and when we go play there, we dig up earthworms. Nice seeing these little creatures again and there are really beautiful and harmless, it's been ages since last I saw one. There really play great role in one's farm and in the soil. Great post and photography @papa-pepper.
that's great news, and not only can the worms do what you stated above, maybe someday you might want to go fishing, so you can always dig a few up for bait! :)
Good start, you will have a whole mess of earth worms in no time.
wow... earthworms :)
That was a whopper of a nightcrawler! Good things happening on the Pepper Homestead! One thing we found out about the property here was that once it was under sea water. So the land has lots of salt so as a result, we don't have many worms. We are working on solving that problem now.
That looks really good ..love that
I used to raise worms under the sink (compost bucket) during the winter, then put them in the soil near the beginning of June. It was amazing how fast they could turn the vegetable cuttings into "soil"
Looking a them, you don't think they are doing anything. But when you see what they can do in a week, it's amazing.
Right, I've seen @allforthegood raise some before and it was impressive!
I love finding earthworms in the garden, but mine don't get that big. Congratulations!
I had never considered that these garden creatures could help the soil with aeration, thanks for sharing!
Right on! :)
Been such a long time I saw one, this big. I usually see the slim and long ones. Healthy soil it is
it seems like this is fun, you really do it, the earthworm gives fertility to the soil.
Yes they do!
Saweet bruv, you really need to look into aquaponics at some point there really is no better way to grow protein (fish) as well as vegetables in a looped system. I actually put earthworms as you have above in one of Ebb and Flow systems I had, many would argue it works as an additional fertilizer that remains to be seen, as generally the fish waste/nitrates does suffice. Epic all the same. Nice one. Cheer$;)
Yes Sir! Totally on my lengthy to do list!
Saweet bruv do it.. I have been out for a bit now 2 years odd.. plan to be back in 6 months or less. If and when you do let me know when Ill assist you on system builds, fish types, temps, vegetables, layout, mineral deficiencies, pests and and and lots to learn.. Cheer$;) bruv
LOL at proof of nightcrawler.
In as much as those tiny creatures will not be needed around the house, they are a very welcome visitor in the soil. They are evidence that the Soil is fertile.
You might also want to refer to them as
Good point! Thanks!
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Wormy wormy 😂😂
You call them that too? LOL!