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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: cede on April 02, 2006, 17:38

Title: slow worm
Post by: cede on April 02, 2006, 17:38

i found a small slow worm on my plot on saturday morning! :D  and even more amazing she was there again this afternoon in the same place! several people had told me of seeing them in compost heaps etc so i was surprised that she was on the open plot in the middle of the day.

Title: slow worm
Post by: kooringa on April 02, 2006, 22:02

I have never seen one on my plot.  There were hundreds of tiny  creamy white little worm like things in the pig muck - haven' t a clue what they were!

Title: slow worm
Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 03, 2006, 16:27

We used to get lots of slow worms in our garden in Kent, but not seen any in the 10 years we've been away from there.

Title: slow worm
Post by: cede on April 03, 2006, 22:04

two other people on the site had mentionned seeing slow worms - one in a compost bin (i would suppose slatted type) and one under plastic sheeting. but we have a pond for watering and the site backs on to fields, so i imagine that i will be seeing a lot more wildlife. i have seen deer in the field, but i'm not at that end so hope i won't see crops disappearing.

Title: slow worm
Post by: twysted1 on April 03, 2006, 22:19

i used to love catching slow worms and snakes as a kid and at the weekend me and OH went and bought two rat snakes.