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Dec 7, 2016 10:53 AM CST
Name: Larry
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@joannakat,
No, the tiny worms are not baby red worms, though they do look like it. They never get big, and it is fresh grass clippings that draw them in. Several years ago I was just dumping fresh grass clippings trying to fill in the bog and noticed one day when I was down there that there were hundreds of those small warms underneath the mound. Then I started putting the grass clippings down there just for the worms, they must not have read the article about grass having too much nitrogen. For some types of worms I guess it is possible for grass clippings to be too rich in nitrogen, but not for these little fellows. It is amazing how fast they can go through a mound of grass clippings during the warm summer days. As I have filled in the bog more and more with leaves and other organic material I see less and less of the little worms and they are being replaced with the lager worms as the bog dries up more and drains much better.

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