Do rototillers kill worms?

[Agrantina]

It sounds like some of us are getting cabin fever in these late months of winter... Heck I got the new tiller and tilled WET soil and created an AA class mud hole that I will have to fix this spring just to try the tiller out!! Do worms go into hibernation?? If so I may have spared some lives and a entire worm family... Good HJ of the thread though

And the the Engineer remark-- that SHOULD be a totally differnt thread!!! becuz I agree..:laughing:
AndyG

 

[dillo99]

I sure hope so...

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[Haywire]

And the the Engineer remark-- that SHOULD be a totally differnt thread!!! becuz I agree..:laughing:
AndyG

Yea, different thread. After dealing with the "engineers" at my place of employment, I am of the opinion that they bestow that title to folk not even qualified to spell it.

 

[sixdogs]

Yea, different thread. After dealing with the "engineers" at my place of employment, I am of the opinion that they bestow that title to folk not even qualified to spell it.

Not to hijack my own thread but I'll say when new people first boast that they are an engineer, I usually and politely ask if it's with "the big ones or something like HO or N gauge?" Real ones smile.

Back to worms--I find the more worms I have the better the garden or crop does. And it's a noticeable difference which is why I want to protect them.
So in the dry spells they must head lower for water. Plus they feel vibrations from a six foot tiller heading towards them at a half mile an hour and vamoose.
Sounds good.

 

[Rod in Forfar]

An alternate viewpoint which surprised me:

Among forest ecologists in Canada, the earthworm is listed as an invasive species, blamed for the destruction of the stratified leaf litter in the forest which a number of endangered plant species depend upon for their existence. Regardless of how good they are for corn crops, soil aeration and topsoil-mixing aren't that great for biodiversity.

 

[sixdogs]

An alternate viewpoint which surprised me:

Among forest ecologists in Canada, the earthworm is listed as an invasive species, blamed for the destruction of the stratified leaf litter in the forest which a number of endangered plant species depend upon for their existence. Regardless of how good they are for corn crops, soil aeration and topsoil-mixing aren't that great for biodiversity.

Got any links to that?
I used to live in the woods of Maine and that seems contrary to conventional wisdom.
Also dealt with woods people in the Maritimes and some of Quebec province.

 

[Baby Grand]

Not to hijack my own thread but I'll say when new people first boast that they are an engineer, I usually and politely ask if it's with "the big ones or something like HO or N gauge?" Real ones smile.

Back to worms--I find the more worms I have the better the garden or crop does. And it's a noticeable difference which is why I want to protect them.
So in the dry spells they must head lower for water. Plus they feel vibrations from a six foot tiller heading towards them at a half mile an hour and vamoose.
Sounds good.

Hee-hee!
When I was 5 or 6, Gramps (a retired GE engineer) asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I looked up from the train set I was diddling around with and said "I wanna be an engineer!". He proceded to go all Timoshenko on me, telling me I needed to know all sorts of math and thermodynamics and such. After giving him a vacant look for about a half minute I replied "but I just wanna drive the train". I can still see his look of complete disapointment.
-Jim

 

[RadarTech]

Uh oh....here comes PETE with their protests....

You mean PETA?

 

[Haywire]

You mean PETA?

Guilty... guilty of replying to a post without continuing to read the thread to see what had already been said about the PETE post.

Your sentence: You are from now on to be referred to as the Honorary TBN Tractor and Attachment Engineer.

 

[RadarTech]

Guilty... guilty of replying to a post without continuing to read the thread to see what had already been said about the PETE post.

Your sentence: You are from now on to be referred to as the Honorary TBN Tractor and Attachment Engineer.

Huh?
You crack me up...