Our garden is full of worms
Jun. 12th, 2009 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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!"
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!"
