Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept 11, 2023

September 08, 2023 00:26:53
Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept 11, 2023
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Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept 11, 2023

Sep 08 2023 | 00:26:53

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Show Notes

The question “What do I do about the Asian jumping worms that are destroying my soil?” has outpaced what was the most common thing I was asked year in and out for decades as a garden writer—the relatively simple challenge of “How do I prune my hydrangeas?” Now gardeners from an ever-widening area of the country are voicing this far more troubling worry, about an invasive species that seems to be on a mission of Manifest Destiny.

Today’s guest, ecologist Brad Herrick from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, has been studying jumping worms for a decade, and is here to share the latest insights. 

Brad Herrick is the ecologist and research program manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum, where the staff first noticed the destructive handiwork of Asian jumping worms in 2013. He’s been studying them ever since. 

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