Giant earthworms with coffee grounds as the drawcard, and the beast of Bentleigh has arrived. Imagine my surprise, digging through the garden, when suddenly this magnificent creature emerges from the soft earth.
It is easily the biggest worm I have held, and in the photo below you can see the beast alongside a typical compost worm. Not quite as impressive as the Giant Gippsland Earthworm, which includes at no additional charge the comforting voice of David Attenborough, but remarkable in its own right.
So what attracted the beast to my humble plot? It must have been all the coffee grounds that I’ve been sprinkling around the place. Giant earthworms with coffee grounds are no accident, it’s like a magnet I tells you, like a magnet!
Now as for the rest of the story, that is for another time. But if you hear a dulled and mighty roar from a place far and deep away, think kindly of the beast, who is working hard to help bring life to our soil.
Earthworms are a sign of genuine soil health. A garden that attracts them is a garden that is working. If you want to go further with worm power in your patch, the practice of vermicomposting is worth exploring, where worms do the hard work of turning kitchen scraps into rich soil amendment.
Update to the Story of Mega Worm
It seems that Mega Worm was not alone, because I also came across a large worm feeding on coffee grounds and various other amazing natural materials. Earthworms in the garden are a sign of soil health, and this in turn will give you healthy productive plants.
I suspect there are many more mega worms in the backyard, and I wish them long and productive lives in my garden.
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