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| Hi All!
Seeing that we’re sorta caught up in the period of "Winter Waiting" I hope I’m not being a bore? If your interested I sent a follow-up to the Vermicomposting Forum entitled "Accidental Worming". There was a reply and a link to photos showing small Red Worm Cocoon’s and another showing the emergence of one of the babies. I found the photo shot's interesting. If you’ve never seen I hope you would too (?) and the reason for the post. We’re getting closer. Only 60 days ‘til the 1st of April. And according to "Weather Underground" we’re gaining just about 18 minutes on each end of daylight this week. By the way I hope you enjoy this week’s Winter Weather in CNY. It appears as though it’s going to be a more normal one, and you WS'ers might get a chance to see your container's with the possible snow melt. This week surely is going to be more of my kinda winter and one that I don’t mind handling. Just to be able to get outside more than ten minutes at a time without freezing to death is going to be exhilarating. Have a great day and week!
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| I wrote: we’re gaining just about 18 minutes on each end of daylight this week. That's a TOTAL 18 minutes FROM each end and not 18 minutes |
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| Hi , Jim or anyone , if you know a source for Red Worms in this area could you email me privately and put Red worms in the subject line so I don't think its spam ? Thanks . |
Here is a link that might be useful: Our pond and gardens
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- Posted by robbieZone5 z5 HudsonValley (mygoodtwin2002@yahoo.com) on Tue, Feb 1, 05 at 15:09
| what are red worms? |
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| Hi Robbie! To best answer, you might want to visit the vermicomposting Forum page. I personally never knew of or heard of the word until a few weeks or months ago. But virtually red worms lye beneath our feet in most of NYS soils and as we so often do, we take things like red worms for granted. I came across the process of realizing the importance of the worm castings created by the red worm in our compost piles by accident. Although I’ve never asked it appears that many places either don’t have a back yards or a source in able to acquire them and for those red worms are available through purchasing - on average of $20.00 per lb. To give more detail you might want to check out this link: http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/factsheets/107-97.htm Have a great Day! |
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- Posted by robbieZone5 z5 HudsonValley (mygoodtwin2002@yahoo.com) on Wed, Feb 2, 05 at 9:34
| thanks for the link, jim. it was VERY informative. thank you! |
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