[bluGill]

Where do you live? Earthworms are not native everywhere and they can be a harmful invasive species if introduced to the wrong place.

If you have a new house, developments are horible, just enough soil to grow grass. You might be stuck buying good compost and soil and tilling that in deep, then letting grass grow for a few years before trying anything more.

[afrodc_]

Seems to be the case I'll have to play the long game. They bring in this disgusting but shapeable soil to surround the foundation out here in central Texas. I remember growing up finding earthworms and fishing all the time, so they should be native.

[gbrown]

> should be native.

The word you’re looking for is “naturalized”. Not native, but they’re already there, so...

[afrodc_]

Hm why do you make the distinction? Is the implication that the earthworms were brought in at some point or does native not work as a word in this context?