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Getting Rid of Earthworms?

How do I get rid of earthworms?

Hardiness Zone: 10a

By Louise Leclerc

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June 22, 20090 found this helpful

Why would you want to? Earthworms are a huge asset in the garden/lawn. They aerate the soil and fertilize.

 
April 18, 20170 found this helpful

Because we are SO Inundated with them they are Actually Killing Our Just re done & new grassed yard (after a year of chink bugs +, killing grass, we got All out, rototilled, made soil great for new grass/re-Grass In S Ca!)It was Beautiful..till I kept seeing what I thought to be ant hills (but had No Exit or entrance holes, nor sings of ants!). The saw Worm Butts(heads?), Sticking up & out, even in the Sand Box, while we watch our new lawn just dieing agai9n,right before our eyes!

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Yes Sounds Crazy? For a 22'X22' area of grass, along with planter behind pool! Well its not! OH MY... I fish with worms & could get out of planter when needed, but had Never heard of To Many Earthworms taking out lawns Before this!

 
August 9, 20180 found this helpful

I do not agree. There can be too many earthworms and their castings can turn the soil rock hard and virtually unusable.

 
June 23, 20090 found this helpful

I totally agree! Earthworms are your garden's best friend! Some people actually buy them in order to improve their soil.

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Anyway, I don't believe there would be a way to get rid of them without completely making your soil barren and useless.

 
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May 10, 20161 found this helpful

I have forty years of experience with gardening and earthworms. The worms we have totally destroy a perennial flower bed in about five years. They eat the organic material and leave the clay. You can hardly get a spade in. The lumps are full of tunnels like cheese. Sure it's aeriated, but nothing will grow in clay lumps. I hate earthworms. Bring your spade and dig up all you want...free.

 
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June 10, 20190 found this helpful

I agree totally, we have the same, to many and our soil is like clay, dont ever get any.

 

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June 26, 20090 found this helpful

Honestly, you don't want to. They are what is keeping your soil healthy. Unless you really want a dry space with no vegetation?

 
December 31, 20180 found this helpful

My lawn at night is literally cover with nightcrawlers .Cant get ride of the moles thanks to this !

 
June 26, 20090 found this helpful

Oh don't kill them. Earthworm casings are the best planting medium. They are so wonderful for the ground. I've even had them in house plants. Leave them alone.

 
June 26, 20090 found this helpful

They're really good for the soil they aerate it.

 
June 26, 20090 found this helpful

DON'T! That's a fantastic problem to have. ;)

 

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June 26, 20090 found this helpful

I recently spent most of an afternoon, raking leaves away in a wooded area and collecting earthworms to put in my garden. They can break up heavy soil and the castings actually fertilize the soil. Healthy veggies in healthy soil are less attractive to the pests that damage the plants. I purposely avoid chemical fertilizers in my garden to make sure that the worms are protected.

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Harlean from Arkansas

 
Anonymous
June 26, 20090 found this helpful

I second each answer they are wonderful for the earth. I even bought some for my raised flower beds. I saved them from a fish hook, LOL

 
December 31, 20180 found this helpful

You can have mine. All million of them !

 
July 1, 20090 found this helpful

You don't say where you're from or what kind of soil you have. While earthworms are great, in some soils (clay for instance), they aren't so good.

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You might try adding fine sand to your soil. Earthworms don't like sand. Do add equal parts of good compost to create a nice loam. That should do it.

 
July 1, 20090 found this helpful

Not that I mind the worms but they are getting into the house! That is a nuisance!

 
October 2, 20090 found this helpful

I do not have a thing against earth worms just the moles they attract, I only want them out of my yard. The worms and the moles can have the 10 acres. Moles love worms and I have too many. Gary Western Washington.

 
August 29, 20101 found this helpful

My guess is that none of you who have posted not to get rid of earthworms have never had too many. After about 20 years struggling with what they do to my vegetable garden and flower beds, I've given up. I will now kill them. When you have too many, they deplete the soil of organic matter and it clumps. (I add compost every year, sand the last couple.) I'm digging potatoes now and the soil comes up in big hard clumps.

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A clump that is the equivalent of 8" x 8" may have upwards of 30 earthworms in it and is networked with trails. Now I just have to figure out how to kill them. They aren't a problem in the lawn because the robins eat them, but there are parts of the vegetable and flower gardens they can't get at because of the vegetation.

 
October 26, 20130 found this helpful

I have a huge worm casting problem in my lawn. Like 6 to 8 four inch mounds of dirt sticking up in each square foot of yard. I really don't care how "wonderful" worms are for my soil. It's my soil, now, and it want the worms gone. So, Sevin it is. ( LOL. I love it when tree huggers ruin their good works by accident.)

 

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