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"bigboard" wrote in message ... Franz Heymann wrote: "bigboard" wrote in message ... Mike Lyle wrote: [snip] I have a small wormery that produces excellent compost and liquid plant food, and takes all of my organic kitchen waste. It sits next to the bin in my kitchen and was worth every penny. What have you got against them? The fact that it takes six weeks to dispose of 1 week's kitchen waste. Then your wormery is too small for your needs. Mine suits me perfectly. Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it to cope six times as fast as it does now? All science is either physics or stamp collecting. My profession was physicist and my hobby is stamp collecting, so according to Rutherford, I was a full time scientist. Franz |
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wrote in message news On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:13 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "bigboard" wrote in message ... Mike Lyle wrote: [snip] I have a small wormery that produces excellent compost and liquid plant food, and takes all of my organic kitchen waste. It sits next to the bin in my kitchen and was worth every penny. What have you got against them? The fact that it takes six weeks to dispose of 1 week's kitchen waste. You pamper your worms Franz. Since we last spoke on the topic, I threw those Tubergen bulb trays in the waste bin and rehoused my worms in a wormery made by drilling plenty of holes in the bottom of some old chicken pellet buckets. They stack nicely. The worms still don't eat. They just lie there laughing at me. Franz |
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wrote in message ... On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:12 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Franz Heymann wrote: "VX" wrote in message s.com... I've got some sales literature that came in a Screwfix order about a device for making compost called the ComposTumbler that- supposedly- makes good compost in 14 days because it has the facility for turning rather like a cement mixer; you turn it every day and this allows the process to speed up somewhat. All was well until I called the freephone number and heard the prices- £299 and £399 for the medium and large ones respectively and for the small garden-porch model, £199. It is a rip-off. There is not even the faintest possibility that any home composter will produce compost in 14 days. It is being sold at around 10 to 20 times a reasonable price. If these reelly are that good I *might* be interested since whatever it takes to make compost normally is probably too much effort for me with my physical limitations. But this does sound a little expensive! Anyone know anything about these? It's just ridiculous. If it's small enough to turn by hand, it's too small to make compost. Put it in the same compartment as shredders, flame-throwers, and wormeries: just another way of separating the innocent from their hard-earned. Gardening is a simple business, and those who do it on next to nothing can get better results than those who spend thousands. These sharks are just trying to cultivate the idea that everything has to cost money before it'll work. Hear hear. ... said the man with the failed worm farm :-) I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind and rotund. They just don't eat fast enough Seriously, should I perhaps put a trowelful of garden soil in their hostel now and again? Franz |
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"bigboard" wrote in message ... wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:12 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Franz Heymann wrote: "VX" wrote in message s.com... I've got some sales literature that came in a Screwfix order about a device for making compost called the ComposTumbler that- supposedly- makes good compost in 14 days because it has the facility for turning rather like a cement mixer; you turn it every day and this allows the process to speed up somewhat. All was well until I called the freephone number and heard the prices- £299 and £399 for the medium and large ones respectively and for the small garden-porch model, £199. It is a rip-off. There is not even the faintest possibility that any home composter will produce compost in 14 days. It is being sold at around 10 to 20 times a reasonable price. If these reelly are that good I *might* be interested since whatever it takes to make compost normally is probably too much effort for me with my physical limitations. But this does sound a little expensive! Anyone know anything about these? It's just ridiculous. If it's small enough to turn by hand, it's too small to make compost. Put it in the same compartment as shredders, flame-throwers, and wormeries: just another way of separating the innocent from their hard-earned. Gardening is a simple business, and those who do it on next to nothing can get better results than those who spend thousands. These sharks are just trying to cultivate the idea that everything has to cost money before it'll work. Hear hear. ... said the man with the failed worm farm :-) LOL! Franz was probably putting all the cats in he shoots. Wormeries were never designed for cat disposal. I am sticking rigorously to the EU directives and exclude cats and other sorts of meat from the wormery. {:-)) Franz |
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Franz Heymann wrote: Then your wormery is too small for your needs. Mine suits me perfectly. Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it to cope six times as fast as it does now? Have you read Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) on the question of how many cats it takes to kill rats in a given time? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Franz Heymann wrote: "bigboard" wrote in message ... LOL! Franz was probably putting all the cats in he shoots. Wormeries were never designed for cat disposal. I am sticking rigorously to the EU directives and exclude cats and other sorts of meat from the wormery. {:-)) Does anyone here run a maggotery? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Franz Heymann wrote: "bigboard" wrote in message ... LOL! Franz was probably putting all the cats in he shoots. Wormeries were never designed for cat disposal. I am sticking rigorously to the EU directives and exclude cats and other sorts of meat from the wormery. {:-)) Does anyone here run a maggotery? I saw one on TV once. "Maggotry", on the other hand, sounds like an obscure criminal offence, possibly less common in these days of widespread street-lighting. Mike. |
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"Steve Harris" wrote in message ... In article , (Franz Heymann) wrote: Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it to cope six times as fast as it does now? Wild guess, 2.449489742783 feet :-) Approximately :-) Yours and mine round off differently. {:-)) Franz |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , Franz Heymann wrote: Then your wormery is too small for your needs. Mine suits me perfectly. Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it to cope six times as fast as it does now? Have you read Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) on the question of how many cats it takes to kill rats in a given time? No, but I look forward to hearing where he wrote that. If all the animals are reasonably spaced, I guess the number killed per unit time is proportional to the product of the number of cats and rats. {:-)) Franz Franz |
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:08:58 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: ~ ~"bigboard" wrote in message ... ~ Franz Heymann wrote: ~ ~ ~ "bigboard" wrote in message ~ ... ~ Mike Lyle wrote: ~ ~ [snip] ~ I have a small wormery that produces excellent compost and liquid ~ plant ~ food, and takes all of my organic kitchen waste. It sits next to ~the ~ bin in ~ my kitchen and was worth every penny. What have you got against ~ them? ~ ~ The fact that it takes six weeks to dispose of 1 week's kitchen ~waste. ~ ~ ~ Then your wormery is too small for your needs. Mine suits me ~perfectly. ~ ~Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it ~to cope six times as fast as it does now? I presume current volume is therefore 0.25.pi.depth so you'd need to be at approximately 2.449 feet diameter. As if you didn't know! jane checks following emails - yep, we all agree! ~ All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ ~My profession was physicist and my hobby is stamp collecting, so ~according to Rutherford, I was a full time scientist. ~ :-) I love that quote. Would have liked to put it at the start of my thesis but at the time my external examiner wasn't sorted and could have been a medical physicist or a clued-up medic and I didn't want the latter to get rebuffed and be more likely to fail me! (As it was, I got two physicists and no problems, phew, so I could have put it in!) Now I collect china ducks but it was once British mint stamps until I got disillusioned with the mail obviously printing them for collectors to buy and making way too much money. (ie when I was a student!). I still buy the ones with plant or astronomy connections though, thus linking hobbies! So, this begs the question, what do urglers have as other hobbies for when they can't garden? jane, medical physicist, duck collector, reader of murder-mysteries and science fiction, and avid photographer. :-) -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:09:00 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: ~ ~"bigboard" wrote in message ... ~ wrote: ~ ~ On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:12 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" ~ wrote: ~ huge snip ~ ~ Hear hear. ~ ~ ... said the man with the failed worm farm :-) ~ ~ LOL! Franz was probably putting all the cats in he shoots. Wormeries ~were ~ never designed for cat disposal. ~ ~I am sticking rigorously to the EU directives and exclude cats and ~other sorts of meat from the wormery. ~{:-)) ~ Actually, this is a good point. Cats compost their products naturally - does this mean the EU has banned cats? :-) :-) :-) g,d&rlh -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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Franz Heymann wrote:
"bigboard" wrote in message ... Franz Heymann wrote: "bigboard" wrote in message ... Mike Lyle wrote: [snip] I have a small wormery that produces excellent compost and liquid plant food, and takes all of my organic kitchen waste. It sits next to the bin in my kitchen and was worth every penny. What have you got against them? The fact that it takes six weeks to dispose of 1 week's kitchen waste. Then your wormery is too small for your needs. Mine suits me perfectly. Mine has a diameter of approximately 1 ft. How large must I make it to cope six times as fast as it does now? Six times as large? Seriously, I suspect that you are being a bit impatient with your worms. It can take quite a while for them to reach sufficient numbers to be efficient. Once they get there though, there's no stopping them. All science is either physics or stamp collecting. My profession was physicist and my hobby is stamp collecting, so according to Rutherford, I was a full time scientist. LOL. Nice one. -- Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to. |
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Franz Heymann wrote: Have you read Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) on the question of how many cats it takes to kill rats in a given time? No, but I look forward to hearing where he wrote that. "The Monthly Packet", February 1880. It is on pages 140-142 of The Magic of Lewis Carrol by John Fisher (Penguin), but my copy was published in 1975. If all the animals are reasonably spaced, I guess the number killed per unit time is proportional to the product of the number of cats and rats. {:-)) You've got to the first step. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Franz Heymann wrote:
"bigboard" wrote in message ... wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:12 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Franz Heymann wrote: "VX" wrote in message s.com... I've got some sales literature that came in a Screwfix order about a device for making compost called the ComposTumbler that- supposedly- makes good compost in 14 days because it has the facility for turning rather like a cement mixer; you turn it every day and this allows the process to speed up somewhat. All was well until I called the freephone number and heard the prices- £299 and £399 for the medium and large ones respectively and for the small garden-porch model, £199. It is a rip-off. There is not even the faintest possibility that any home composter will produce compost in 14 days. It is being sold at around 10 to 20 times a reasonable price. If these reelly are that good I *might* be interested since whatever it takes to make compost normally is probably too much effort for me with my physical limitations. But this does sound a little expensive! Anyone know anything about these? It's just ridiculous. If it's small enough to turn by hand, it's too small to make compost. Put it in the same compartment as shredders, flame-throwers, and wormeries: just another way of separating the innocent from their hard-earned. Gardening is a simple business, and those who do it on next to nothing can get better results than those who spend thousands. These sharks are just trying to cultivate the idea that everything has to cost money before it'll work. Hear hear. ... said the man with the failed worm farm :-) LOL! Franz was probably putting all the cats in he shoots. Wormeries were never designed for cat disposal. I am sticking rigorously to the EU directives and exclude cats and other sorts of meat from the wormery. {:-)) Franz Good point! I'd forgotten about the animal waste directive. Bury them under newly planted trees then. -- "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." -- George McGovern |
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