My tulip tree needed tons of mulch they said and the area was far to huge to do that or a bunch of earth worms to help with the aid raiding the roots to allow more water to get to the source of the root system..
I went out and bought 20 dozen earthworms.....
First of all I had no idea how to release them so put them out a couple of buckets at a time and watch if they went underground...
Many of them did until I seen the Mother Robin up the tree and this became an easy......LUNCH.......
oh well what can you do
Waited for the release until after the robin as gone and babies too but she kept coming back with babies........to wait for lunch still....
then got frustrated and tossed out all the rest of the 10 dozen and thought well she will get a few and babies too but not the rest........
and this worked better.......
the first couple of dozen she would take 3 at a time....for herself .......
I need to add some worms to air raid the lily beds some later as well......
I also bought some prey mantis and lady bugs........you buy them in groups of 1000 for the oriental trees around here...... and sure some of them have found the lilies along the way too......
have fun with new project
