OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
|| In article ,
|| Jangchub wrote:
||
||| On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:02:45 GMT, "Jonny"
||| wrote:
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|||| Concerning processing food refuse by direct burial vs the
|||| method I presented: Neither agree, nor disagree. I don't
|||| have any present information to make that assessment. So,
|||| I will pursue the truth based on long-term observation.
|||| I do agree that earthen type worms process food by
|||| ingesting it for better use by microbes. They leave a wake
|||| trail of excrement in their travels. Two species of ants
|||| seem to be primarily carnivorous in my area, eating, it
|||| seems, primarily insects, and wildlife carcasses. The
|||| acrobat ant seems to want my dogs food near the house on
|||| the porch. Still another species, a very small,
|||| non-biting, orange colored version, wants to enter the
|||| house for water at the plumbing drain trap in the kitchen.
|||| That tells me the yard is way overdue for irrigation.
|||| Another species of ant in the garden totes off the food
|||| refuse someplace, I can't find the antbed. Its probably
|||| nearby as the area not immediately around the garden is
|||| very dry. Its a raised bed garden, an oasis in the middle
|||| of native TX hill country soil. I've never heard anyone
|||| claim ants process food refuse for better use by soil
|||| oriented microbes before.
||||
|||| Am certainly not discouraging lifeforms in the soil with
|||| either method of food refuse disposal.
|||
||| Good luck. You are creating conditions for pathogens which
||| are toxic
||| to soil biota as well as human biota.
|||
||
|| Agreed... The stench is from anaerobic fermentation.
|| This is not good.
||
|| He really really really needs to do some googling on proper
|| composting!
|| Just because his parents did it does not make it a good
|| thing. :-)
||
|| That is something I've had to learn during the human
|| maturation process. Sometimes mom and dad were actually
|| wrong. G --
|| Peace!
|| Om
||
Next thing you will be telling me that not everything I read on
the internet is true.
BJ :-)
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