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|    T to songbird    |
|    Re: Garlic    |
|    26 May 21 11:35:37    |
      From: T@invalid.invalid              On 5/26/21 11:03 AM, songbird wrote:       > T wrote:       > ...       >> Dang! A gourmet restaurant for worms. You aught to       >> start charging them for your services!       >>       >> Wait, you already do that when you steal their       >> poop to fertilize your garden.       >>       >> :-)       >       > the sad thing is that when i put them out into the       > gardens only a few survive. adult worms really don't       > cope well with rapid change in soil conditions on       > top of the fact that many of them are not natives so       > they will not survive the weather extremes.       >       > the worms that will survive are those that are natives       > and who are just about to hatch from their cocoons and       > perhaps some of the smaller ones that have a chance to       > acclimate.       >       > i don't steal their poop. i just take the buckets       > out and put them where i want to use their poop/pee       > and then i keep a few buckets back which are used to       > restart the buckets. to take the time to sift the       > worms from the buckets would take way too long and i'm       > not running a fancy setup where i could be more able       > to let the worms migrate like some do. that's both       > more expensive and takes more equipment than a simple       > bucket like what i'm doing.       >       >       > songbird       >              They sound really pampered. I can hear the now:              Fred: slave is briging more table scraps!              Harvey: Hmmm. These vegi's taste like they       were grown in our poop.              Fred: I am pretty sure that was your poop Fred               |
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