Our garden is full of worms

[conuly]

I don't just mean it has a lot, I mean it is full of worms. We have weeds growing between the bricks on our tiny bricked spot. Every weed came up with at least a dozen baby earthworms. (Saw a baby praying mantis the other day, you bet I said oooh!)

You can't turn over so much as an inch of soil without disturbing a handful - a grown-up handful! - of worms.

If I didn't love worms so much, I admit, I might be a wee bit creeped out by the fact that they've all chosen to live and fuck in my yard.

Today, my mother told Evangeline about planting beans one year. She put the hole in the ground, dropped the bean in - and within seconds a horde of ants descended upon it and took the bean back to their colony. Well, live and let live, she moved further from the anthill and tried again. And within seconds the ants appeared to take the bean home with them! Evangeline, listening to this story, found the solution: "You should've put the dirt in your HOUSE and planted the beans THERE, Annen!"

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[crymytears.livejournal.com]

Love the user icon. That's my favorite movie, of all time, hands down. Hadley has two Stitch plushes, bought in WDW. I'm hoping they'll become treasured possessions, but I doubt it.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

LOL. That reminds me of when I was in grade school, and I and two of my girl friends just LOVED to play with the worms. XD; We would fill our pencil boxes with dirt and carry the worms around in them to school, to play with them during recess.

Yeah, we were pretty weird. XD;;;

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Of course! They took'em to the BEANWORLD! (http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/BeanWeb/Introduction.html)

[conuly]

Uh... wow.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Worms living in your yard means the soil is good and getting better, yay!

LOL, your little girlies are so smart! Of course Eva's solution is the right one: container gardening for the win!

[conuly]

Yes, yes it does. I remember it used to be very clay-y and rocky. It's still rocky, but we don't dig up patches of clay so much anymore.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

"Every weed came up with at least a dozen baby earthworms. (Saw a baby praying mantis the other day, you bet I said oooh!)"

Worms and mantis! You really lucked out!

[conuly]

Our yard is chock full of praying mantis egg cases. We always get one or two, but this seems to be a bumper year for those as well.