Today I got to con­tinue a 4th of July tra­di­tion: pulling up the past 6 months of neglected weeds from the back yard.  This year, though, it was a lit­tle dif­fer­ent.  Sure, there were still plenty of weeds, but more inter­est­ingly, there were worms — lots of them.  In pre­vi­ous years, the lawn itself has been devoid of critters.

Back in Feb­ru­ary, I picked up a bunch of worms for the com­post pile.  It seems they have since spread to all cor­ners of the prop­erty.  Places where I have never before seen worms had plenty.  As I found them in the lawn, I picked them out and migrated them to the back veg­etable gar­den and herb gar­den, where they, pre­sum­ably, will be more useful.

Me: “So the good news: I’m find­ing lots of worms.  The bad news: the major­ity of them are half-worms.  Oops.  I found five halves in this spot alone.”

Her (see­ing me put them in the nearby herb gar­den): “Be sure to put them with the veg­eta­bles, too.”

Me: “Yeah, I’ve been doing them 50/50.  Well, I mean, with both halves together in the same spot.  I’m not lit­er­ally try­ing to split them 50/50.”

I even dug up a few spi­rally cen­tipedes.  (Click to embiggenate — the new iPhone’s cam­era is no DSLR, but is still rather nice.)

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Tagged as: centipedes, compost, garden, weeds, worms