If I find a worm on my path in the garden I always pick it up and put it on the soil. I always make sure that it is buried under the soil before moving on. I dont k how why, I have a bit of a soft spot for worms 🤣🤣
If I find a worm on my path in the garden I always pick it up and put it on the soil. I always make sure that it is buried under the soil before moving on. I dont k how why, I have a bit of a soft spot for worms 🤣🤣
I do the same 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@AnniD - I'm glad it's not just me I even bury bees if I find a dead one. It just seems so sad, somehow. Mind you - when Mrs Hoggy and her weans were in the garden, I laid one out and watched wee hoglet crunching on it, so I'm not sure what that makes me.
I think @harmony felt she was helping, so let's not get too unkind here. Mr Worm may have easily got chopped by a spade or fork when the plant was being moved, so all's well that ends well.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl , I do that , sometimes I find dead bees in the greenhouse and I always give them a burial . There's something very sad about it, as you say. I didn't know that hedgehogs ate dead bees, that's a new one on me. Keep on saving the worms @harmony , every earthworm is precious.
Well I've learned my lesson to leave well alone I didn't use a "stick" it was a tiny thin twig used to loosen the earth and I was very careful not to touch the worm. I'll always pick up worms and move them out of the way when digging and try to keep my garden as wildlife friendly as possible..
Whenever I am digging up any plant (weeds included), I scour the rootball for worms before putting in the green bin. It makes each job twice as long, but I'd rather know I'm consigning as little as possible to a needless death!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I even bury bees if I find a dead one. It just seems so sad, somehow.
Mind you - when Mrs Hoggy and her weans were in the garden, I laid one out and watched wee hoglet crunching on it, so I'm not sure what that makes me.
I think @harmony felt she was helping, so let's not get too unkind here. Mr Worm may have easily got chopped by a spade or fork when the plant was being moved, so all's well that ends well.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl , I do that , sometimes I find dead bees in the greenhouse and I always give them a burial . There's something very sad about it, as you say.
I didn't know that hedgehogs ate dead bees, that's a new one on me.
Keep on saving the worms @harmony , every earthworm is precious.
I didn't use a "stick" it was a tiny thin twig used to loosen the earth and I was very careful not to touch the worm. I'll always pick up worms and move them out of the way when digging and try to keep my garden as wildlife friendly as possible..
Here you go @AnniD
They're surprisingly crunchy
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wonder if he (?) developed a taste for them...