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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Margaret Roach

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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... Read More ›

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0:00.0	From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret
0:10.3	Roach.
0:11.3	You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.
0:15.0	The question, what do I do about the Asian jumping worms that are destroying my soil?
0:20.7	Has outpaced what was the most common thing I was asked year in and year out for decades as a garden writer.
0:26.0	The relatively simple challenge of how do I prune my hydrangea.
0:30.0	Now gardeners from an ever widening area of the country are voicing this far more troubling worry
0:36.0	about an invasive species that seems to be on a mission of manifest destiny.
0:40.0	Today's guest ecologist Brad Herrick from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Arboretum
0:46.2	has been studying jumping worms for a decade and is here to share the latest insights.
0:51.7	More in a moment but first this message.
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1:09.5	Brad is the Ecologist and Research Program Manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum,
1:14.1	where the staff first noticed the destructive handiwork of Asian jumping worms in 2013.
1:20.4	He's been studying them ever since, and I'm always glad to talk to him sort of.
1:25.2	Welcome back Brad, I wish we could talk about happier topics someday together. I know someday we will
1:30.9	I know can we talk about a plant or something someday? Oh
1:35.6	My goodness remember when I we were just gardeners not warriors, right? Yeah
1:40.7	And I learned about the from something I think it was called Great Lakes
1:45.7	Worm Watch organization. I learned about online. I learned about the jumping worms in
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