Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

I was moving some logs and the temperature was below 20 F. I saw this worm move. I thought it would have been frozen or dormant. I'm not sure how much activity they can pull off at what temperature.

Marty

On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Michael Nevin wrote:

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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