Hugelkultur and Asian Jumping Worms

Does anyone have experience with Asian Jumping Worms in their hugelkultur?

Just found them on my property for the first time and worried how soon it is before they erode all the traction and varied composition holding up my large mounds (5' tall 6' wide).

Cheers!  -Avi

I am sorry you have not gotten any replies so I thought I would bump your topic to get more exposure with these:

https://permies.com/t/87279/Dealing-jumping-worms

https://permies.com/t/134101/Worms-bad-Jumping-Worms-invading

If you can continue adding debris to the mound, along with yearly or seasonally sowing seeds of certain "mat" type ground cover, that might help to keep the desired structure of the mound. White clover is pretty amazing at this, but I'm unsure about your particular situation as I don't have any long term experience with a hugelmound.

Several years ago I expiremented with building and maintaining a mound at another location and found that lots of small twigs mixed into the mulch (which consisted mostly of leaves and grass clippings) did ok to keep it a "mound" - This was due to not having enough soil on it and animals like chipmunks creating gaping holes in and thru it.

Heres to hoping that the worms you have actually HELP the mound in someway alongside with your intuitive/trial and error management! :)

The Alabama Jumper ( a.k.a Asian Jumping worm in recent news media hype) is just another hyped up sensationalism story. It's been here in the southeast United States over a hundred years and in Alabama so long its named after the state. It's done no harm to Alabama and of course the negative stuff about it has not happened to Alabama nor its forests or farmland in that hundred years. My chickens love them and they've been a beneficial thing for hugalkultur log beds because they are nothing more than a lively worm to add to our 160 or so other varieties of native and non native earth worms in North America. Don't get fearmongered out of hugelkuture because of alot of hype.