Any lawn experts or worm charmers on here?

[Bazzer]

Typical cool wet weather activities at this time of year. I don’t understand your question. Worm casts are a sign of healthy soil and lawn. Sweeping in worm casts is a way of fertilising the lawn. Don’t remove this rich source of nutrient. Kill off the worms and you kill off all biodiversity you have and you’ll have a poor lawn in no time. There will be hundreds of thousands of worms in a small lawn so moving them on is impossible.

Probably best to move to a flat.

IME sweeping casts only properly works when they are dry. This time of the year that is rarely going to happen.

[QUOTE 4991204, member: 9609"]without worms your garden would probably die. They are truly wondrous creatures, just let your grass grow a little longer and you will never see the casts.

Just a thought and I don't know the answer to this - would we even have soil without worms ? If worms had never existed how differant would our flora be ? I'm wondering if they are one of the most important creatures on the planet.[/QUOTE]

I don't doubt they do wonders for soil and I don't have a problem with them elsewhere in my garden. I am more than happy for them to live in my lawn, but I seem to have an over abundance of the varieties which deposit casts.

[QUOTE 4991265, member: 259"]Get a mulching blade for the mower and the casts get recycled on the lawn. We generally have a flock of blackbirds working our lawn and they never seem to stop pulling worms out.[/QUOTE]

Thank you. I shall look into a mulching blade, although the mower will have to have have the front roller removed as that is likely to flatten the casts before the blades got to work.

I try to encourage more birds in the garden, but there are number of local cat owners who give their animals free rein to kill local wildlife.

Use a fertiliser with a high iron content, certainly seems to have greatly reduced the amount of wormcasts on our cricket square since I switched to it 3 or 4 years ago

Thank you. That is encouraging. I had read about altering the soil's acidity level and had changed the fertiliser to one with a higher iron content.

Badgers.

Not going to happen. Badgers and I have history.

 

[nickyboy]

Badgers.

I'd love to have a few worm casts on my lawn instead of those black and white rotivators calling by, looking for leatherjackets etc

I wouldn't wish badgers on anyone who likes a nice lawn