Your cauliflower will be delicious because you grew it! It is great you found an earthworm in your raised bed. I hope you showed him where to dig. He may have been up in the leaves to escape some very wet soil conditions. My wife thinks I am nuts when I go out after a heavy rain and I rescue earthworms crawling on our driveway and show them where my garden is!
By the way...I have RED Stupice tomatoes...earliest in New England???
I’m curious as to how he got there. That bed contained NO SOIL — just peat moss, vermiculite, & compost PLUS composted worm castings. Do you suppose there were eggs in the worm castings? I thought the castings were just worm poop.
I’m sorry to say that I did not turn him around and send him back in. He was crawling out and down the side of the raised bed. I figured he knew how to go back into the garden when he was ready.
Anyway, I did not kill him. My daddy taught me to respect earth worms. That did not make me LIKE earthworms, but I respect them.
I have a little frog/toad that hangs out there too. I just let him do his thing and don’t mess with him.