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- From: Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
- To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] INVASIVE EARTHWORMS!!!!
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:22:24 -0800 (PST)
Hi Terry
Your solution may be in one of your problems, Move your worms to a new, insulated, bin in the Autumn and then let the old bin freeze hard and long outside. Eisnea Fetida is a shallow delver and in the wild they have to go deeper than usual to survive the cold. A bin will not keep them alive w/out insulation and being brought into the garage or something. The eggs will survive more but as stated a good long freeze will do the job.
I can't do that here, Texas doesn't see much of that side of freeze. A high heat compost or tossing it into the oven/freezer are my only choices ATT or ignoring the issue until someone (finally) does the southern survey and separates the natives from the imports.
Yours, Pego
<<My small box of worms seems to have died--victims of cold, as I had not insulated the box, and it was quite exposed when we had hard frosts three days in a row. .... *am wondering, though, how a person who is trying to live as inexpensively as possible, using as little electric as possible, can possibly freeze* the volumes of worm composted materials that they would use in order to effectively take advantage of the final product..>Terry WFrosted acres>> |
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