Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca>]

Hi - are you using surface or litter-feeders or are they worms that generally go deep? Could you use a cold frame to create a warm patch of ground so that your critters do not freeze? And feed them under the glass or plastic over winter?How cold does your area get?

Cheers, Mike in Toronto

Dean <andeanfx@midrivers.com> wrote:

> Right now we are vermic0mposting (just got started) to build up compost over 
> the winter. I would like to eventually move all the worms into the garden 
> and let them aerate as they fertilize. I would think, being the intelligent 
> critters they are, they would stay where it is the most comfortable for 
> them, i.e. not crawl out of the garden area. My biggest concern would be 
> with them goiing or needing to go so deep in the winter to aviod the cold 
> that they surface in places other
>  than the garden. Any ideas on this or 
> other things i am not thinking of would be appreciated. Dean 
>
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