Backyard Wisdom - December 2020
by: Gilbert A Smith, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist

Most of us have had a lot more time to be observing our own back yard this year. In your wanderings have you noticed little 1/2 inch mounds of soil often with pencil sized holes right in the center? What you’re looking at is the work of 250,000 native earth worms as they farm your back yard soil. What are they doing? They’re coming up to the surface, grabbing leaves, pulling them into their burrows and eating them.