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| The Tractor Trailers of the Soil Food Web.
My great Aunt just asked me if healthy soil should have a lot of worms in it. I said, of course, and then went on a rambling 4 paragraph synopsis of why and came up with the gem that Earthworms are a lot like the Tractor Trailers of the soil food web. What do you guys and gals think? Accurate? Catchy? Worthy of a Limerick? CH |
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| I came here to post the following link, about mega-sized worm farms and train car loads of worm castings, and figured it would fit right here in your thread |
Here is a link that might be useful: link to worm article
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- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Tue, Jun 12, 12 at 21:18
| Socrates said "Earthworms are the intestines of life" |
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- Posted by schreber_gaertner (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 12 at 19:25
| The lowly earthworm's often stuck with a rap that it's nothing but muck. But through billions of casings it's truly amazing, over time they move soil like a truck! |
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- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 0:50
| heheh nice...They say in good soil on a cattle farm all the earthworms under the ground weigh more than all the cattle above the ground. |
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- Posted by idaho_gardener 6a_sw_idaho (My Page) on Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 23:08
| Huh. I don't get why my compost pile not only don't have worms in them, they don't seem to have any worm holes in the soil that's underneath. Maybe the worms are there and I just don't get to see them. On the other hand, my garden has plenty. |
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| In a normal compost pile earthworms are not a major part of the digestion process. A normal compost pile would normally be too dry for earthworms to live in. Get a normal compost pile wet enough for earthworms to live in and the bacteria that would normally digest the material would not be able to work due to lack of sufficient air. Earthworms, certain species, can work in the very moist environment of a vermicomposting operation, a place the bacteria that would be digesting the material in a normal compost pile would find too moist to work in. |
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- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Fri, Jun 22, 12 at 1:40
| Yeah when people here the term "composting" they always picture a bin full of worms eating all the waste you throw in (I know I used to heheh). Thats a "worm bin", totally different. Earthworms wouldnt be able to survive in a hot compost bin. Maybe a cold compost pile. Who knows. |
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| Er, well, back to worm limericks... there once was a gal from NZ |
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