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first frost last night
George Shirley wrote:
.... We planted basil when we moved here in 2012, have not had to plant anymore. We pick regularly, dehydrate and jar up, then we pick again and again, then they go to seed just before cold weather. When spring springs the basil starts growing again. Still looks the same and tastes the same. it's nice when it works out that ways. perennial gardens can save on a lot of work. We found an earthworm a while back, not another one since. We put the one captive into the raised bed and hope it will make more. if it was an actual earth worm it will have migrated down to the subsoil if it could. i have been working here for years to increase my populations of these worms and am breeding them inside in some of my worm bins too (with mostly the dirt/clay and not so much organic materials like i use in the rest of the worm bins for worm composting). i have three earthworm species that show up here. there are some that are pale pink to white, some which are darker red and the once in a while accidental night crawler. if i notice the last kind i put them back outside as they don't actually do well in captivity in such a tiny container. all gardens that i've amended with a mix of worm species do seem to sustain at least a few of the earth worms now. when i first started working in many of these gardens there wasn't any kind of worm to be found. the composting worms (which i do not consider to be earth worms) i use are a mix of at least two species. the common red- wriggler and the non-native belgian night crawler. the belgian night crawler will not survive our winters, but they are an excellent composting worm to use as they will live in the soil but they really do a great job of munching on organic materials too. they rapidly increase in population i put a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand worms out in the gardens each spring and most of them are the belgians... songbird |
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