Remember your worms......

[growalot]

We all get so caught up in weed killing....fertilizing.... liming  ...what seeds to plant and tilling ....but we see little mention of our  biggest partners in these plotting endeavors...the earth worm...night  crawls..red worms...ect...

They are our natural  fertilizers...soil aerators..our friends. They eat our left over  tubulars....dead roots and green manure. They enrich the soil with  wonderful rich droppings...and we...well we stumble along killing  thousands of them every year without a passing thought and not on  purpose.

So when we our out there checking our soil ,take along a  soil fork or spade some early cool morning. Pull up a clump of  ground...check and see how well our little friends are doing and then  remember they don't enjoy heat and burrow deeper in the heat of the  day....till then....read labels and research do's and don'ts ...WTI had a  good article a year or so ago on soil depth....fallow ground deep  ...but you don't have to till deep after that..doing so just kills the  worms....Thanks for reading ..Just food for thought