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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   
      
      
      
   One of the local's sells a quart of the stuff   
   for 80 U$D.   That will be a cold day in  ...   
      
   My ground pots now all have a single resident worm.   
      
   :-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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