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Old August 24, 2014   #53
Tracydr
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Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
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Originally Posted by Tania View Post
This is how the soil looks like under the wood chips mulch, nice dark moist and rich. Worms are abundant.

Note that we hardly got any rain this summer. And we did not irrigate.

The first pic shows the wood chips mulch. It is actually pretty dry.
That's what I'm finding all over my property under pine straw and leaves. The biggest and fastest earthworms I've ever seen reside between the natural mulch and the dirt. Probably at least a couple of inches of vermicompost everywhere I look!
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