Encouraging worms

 

    Hi all

My new garden needs revitalising, slowly, I am getting there.

I have worms around the garden, in the moist areas.  The soil looks and
smells beautiful.  The gardens have been neglected for years and I am fixing
them up.

What can I do to encourage the worms to return?
What can I do to encourage them to grow?

Do I need to 'worm farm' and then introduce them to the garden?

Any ideas welcome and cool.

Any site adresses would be cool to.  I already googled, sort of.

Cheers

Pete

 

G'day Pete

While this won't help, I just thought I'd tell you what happened this
morning.

I was in my sewing/computer room and could hear a magpie singing softly
outside the window and on looking out it was one of the juveniles that
hatched this summer just gone.  He/she was singing to the worms as
he/she pulled them out of the lawn.....sort of a serenade before dinner??

Anyway it made me smile and I watched the maggie for a while.  Love
watching nature!

Bronwyn ;-)

peter wrote:

 

Hi Bronwyn,

That would have made a cool vid.
We have magpies all around our place, (5 acre NNSW), but none on our trees.
Great not having to worry about them when they get teritorial and all, but I
do wish we had them around, nonetheless.

We have five cats.  That shouldn't worry maggies.  Should it?

(my cat caught his first rabbit the other night.  We have too many rabbits,
so this is cool.  My plants near the house are not effected by rabbits.)

babble, babble.
peter

 

peter wrote:

Feed them.

This is how I do it,
1) collect all vegetable scraps and clean liquids (tea, vege water, etc)
  scraps from kitchen in bucket.
2) dig hole in garden where I want worms.
3) empty a bucket or two of above in there
4) cover
5) repeat.



The worms you buy require much more food than the naturally occuring
worms. I am also finding a lot of the nature worms curled up in balls
atm, rather than moving through soil.

 



Thanks Terry

So I'll dig a few holes and improvise. Thanks
Also thanks for the heads up regarding bought worms being the  wrong ones
for the garden.
Seems like the garden has heaps of beautiful worms in some areas, now I will
do what I can to encourage them to spread.

Does keeping an area moist down a couple of feet? Does this encourage worms
to come to a new area?