Welcome to our Worms and Soil project!  When we started this project we were trying to find out in there’s any relationship between the amount of worms we find in the soil and the soil itself.  Our goal was to find the best soil conditions to find worms in, this may help people who want to have gardens with worms in them because worms take in soil and release nutrients that are helpful to plants back into the soil.  Even if you can’t find the soil chemistry you can find the soil type and that data is also useful to finding what the relationship is between soil and worms.  Things we found in our research before the project is that worms like moist soil more than dry soil, and throughout our experiment we found that to be true.  We also found that if worms are present in soil they raise the pH of the soil instead of the pH of the soil affecting whether worms are present or not.   People can also search for worms by following our project procedure and recording it themselves on the Citizen Science project Great Lakes Worm Watch.  Identifying each worm species will help as well, it’s good to eliminate invasive worms species that are threatening our environment.  You can find the invasive species on the Great Lakes Worm Watch website below.

Great Lakes Worm Qatch: http://www.nrri.umn.edu/worms/

Alternate ways of testing soil texture: http://preparednessmama.com/jar-soil-test/

Relationship between worms and pH: http://www4.uwm.edu/cehsc/community/upload/Wright_EW_BC.pdf