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I may order some. Or I may just pick up a box from the bait store and turn them loose every now and then. They are supposed to populate quickly.
 

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Today I dug a hole u dear the rabbit butches. I have a gopher problem and he decided to build a tunnel under there. I was very surprised to find a solid 2 inches of black dirt before the sand. But still no worms.
 

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That's weird - that's one place that you'd think there'd be tons of worm! I think it'd be a great idea to broadcast some under there and see what happens.
 

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I really don't have any worms either. I have added humus like crazy, but still no worms. I guess I'll have to buy some. I guess worms don't like sand.

At our old house, I put horse manure in the garden that came from black clay land and it had loads of worms.
 

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Maybe try and dump a bunch of leaves in there, earth worms love leaves.


There's plenty of leaves in there. My wood chips come from tree services. They are 80% leaves by volume and I have pit 12 inches of it in the garden since we started
 

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There's plenty of leaves in there. My wood chips come from tree services. They are 80% leaves by volume and I have pit 12 inches of it in the garden since we started

Weird... I can't ever remember having a garden where is didn't have tons of earth worms. Even in North Carolina where my garden was red clay, I still had tons of earth worms.

I really don't know why you don't have any... I suppose you could try and farm some to add to your garden. I did that when I was a kid and sold them by the dozen to fishermen. You can grow a lot of night crawlers in a 4' x 4' x 12" deep wooden box. I had mine down in the basement of our old house where it was cool. I farmed them in the winter and sold them in the spring and summer. I suppose you could farm them this winter then dump them in your garden this spring.

You don't happen to have a lot of moles do you? Moles eat worms and bugs in the ground.
 

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Weird... I can't ever remember having a garden where is didn't have tons of earth worms. Even in North Carolina where my garden was red clay, I still had tons of earth worms.

I really don't know why you don't have any... I suppose you could try and farm some to add to your garden. I did that when I was a kid and sold them by the dozen to fishermen. You can grow a lot of night crawlers in a 4' x 4' x 12" deep wooden box. I had mine down in the basement of our old house where it was cool. I farmed them in the winter and sold them in the spring and summer. I suppose you could farm them this winter then dump them in your garden this spring.

You don't happen to have a lot of moles do you? Moles eat worms and bugs in the ground.



Moles and gophers. I been kicking their ass all week. Caught 3 this morning
 
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