"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Perhaps this has got rather off-group, so I shall stop :-)


Probably ...

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:08:58 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:55:13 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"bigboard" wrote in message
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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.

Are they a species of hibernating worm?

The equipment is in my garage, which also houses the central heating
boiler on the opposite wall.

They just lie there
laughing at me.

LOL it sounds like Tom and Gerry

Franz

Franz Heymann wrote:
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:08:58 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:
[...]
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.

Are they a species of hibernating worm?

The equipment is in my garage, which also houses the central
heating
boiler on the opposite wall.
[...]

I expect a man of your background has taken the temp inside the
wormery. I've no idea of the range they like.

Light level?

Mike.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Franz Heymann wrote:

That's true, and entirely understandable. Physicists deal, more
often
than not, with such a profusion of clean data compared with folk in
the medical and social sciences that in practice they can afford to
be
somewhat cavalier with specifying their confidence limits.

Well, it WAS true in Rutherford's day, but has become decreasingly
less so both theoretically and practically.

The recent (bad) television program reminded people of Einstein's
difficulty in accepting (and even understanding) some really trivial
concepts because they were non-deterministic and (worse) acausal.

This is not the forum for such details of physics, but I feel
compelled to let you know that QM is non-deterministic, but it is
quite strictly causal.

Yes, I do mean that quantum mechanics is conceptually trivial; it
is the consequences and details that are not.

And over the years, I have been unsuccessfully trying to get a
glimmer of understanding of uncertainty into the heads of merely
good physicists and similar, when they have got beyond the point
that
simple confidence limit amalysis is enough (yes, the best ones can
handle it.)

It usually is enough. There are only very rew instances in which the
statistics are so poor that a deeper analysis is necessary.
Physicists usually try to postpone a final analysis until sufficient
data is available.

Perhaps this has got rather off-group, so I shall stop :-)

I agree.
If you are interested in following ir up, try posting to sci.physics.
(Where you have to duck to avoid the emanations of the kooks)

Franz

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:34:54 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
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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.

Somebody, who idolised/sucked up to the blessed Margaret?

LOL
Martin, that's your best so far.

Franz

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:08:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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... 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?

Have you tried urinating on them? I think they deserve it.

I am trying to persuade them to eat, not ****ed.

Franz

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind and
rotund.

Rotund doesn't sound much like brandling worms. You're not using
earthworms, by any chance?

I bought them at great expense from a firm which sold them as worms
for composting.
Hoever, Kay used to have a url to a site on worm composting. I think
it was produced by her better half. (The site, that is, not the
compost. {:-))
There, it was stated quite unequivocally that it was unnecessary to
obtain special worms for a wormery, and that garden earthworms were as
good as anything.

Franz

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains
these words:

I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind and
rotund.

Rotund doesn't sound much like brandling worms. You're not using
earthworms, by any chance?

I bought them at great expense from a firm which sold them as worms
for composting.
Hoever, Kay used to have a url to a site on worm composting. I think
it was produced by her better half. (The site, that is, not the
compost. {:-))
There, it was stated quite unequivocally that it was unnecessary to
obtain special worms for a wormery, and that garden earthworms were as
good as anything.

Franz

Franz Heymann wrote:


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains
these words:

I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind and
rotund.

Rotund doesn't sound much like brandling worms. You're not using
earthworms, by any chance?

I bought them at great expense from a firm which sold them as worms
for composting.
Hoever, Kay used to have a url to a site on worm composting. I think
it was produced by her better half. (The site, that is, not the
compost. {:-))
There, it was stated quite unequivocally that it was unnecessary to
obtain special worms for a wormery, and that garden earthworms were as
good as anything.

You can get composting worms from your garden, but earthworms, ie Lumbricus
terrestris, would not be any use at all. Wrong type completely.

--
If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. You're
the sucker.

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
In article ,
Franz Heymann wrote:


I asked because somebody once said they needed gritty matter to help
masticate (if masticate is the word I want) their food.

I think that they were giving you the bird.


One way to get a good crop

--
regards andyw

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:08:58 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:
[...]
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.

Are they a species of hibernating worm?

The equipment is in my garage, which also houses the central
heating
boiler on the opposite wall.
[...]

I expect a man of your background has taken the temp inside the
wormery. I've no idea of the range they like.

I haven't measured it. What I can say is that feels comfortable to
me, day and night.

Light level?

Pitch dark most of the time

Franz

In message , bigboard
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You can get composting worms from your garden, but earthworms, ie
Lumbricus terrestris, would not be any use at all. Wrong type
completely.

Presumably the ones (like earthworms but thinner and darker) that take
up residence voluntarily are the right ones?

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

Klara wrote:

In message , bigboard
writes
You can get composting worms from your garden, but earthworms, ie
Lumbricus terrestris, would not be any use at all. Wrong type
completely.

Presumably the ones (like earthworms but thinner and darker) that take
up residence voluntarily are the right ones?


Yes! There are a couple of different species, known by various names such as
Brandlings, Red Worms, Tiger worms, Compost worms, etc.

--
Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.
Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday
will get better.

"bigboard" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains
these words:

I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind
and
rotund.

Rotund doesn't sound much like brandling worms. You're not
using
earthworms, by any chance?

I bought them at great expense from a firm which sold them as
worms
for composting.
Hoever, Kay used to have a url to a site on worm composting. I
think
it was produced by her better half. (The site, that is, not the
compost. {:-))
There, it was stated quite unequivocally that it was unnecessary
to
obtain special worms for a wormery, and that garden earthworms
were as
good as anything.

You can get composting worms from your garden, but earthworms, ie
Lumbricus
terrestris, would not be any use at all. Wrong type completely.

Firstly, the worms were sold to me by a firm which specialises in worm
composting accessories.
Secondly, that url to which Kay used to draw our attention was written
by someone whose professional research is concerned with a study of
worms.
Do I believe him ot you?

Franz

Franz Heymann wrote:


"bigboard" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains
these words:

I do not have any failed worms on my farm. They are thrivind
and
rotund.

Rotund doesn't sound much like brandling worms. You're not
using
earthworms, by any chance?

I bought them at great expense from a firm which sold them as
worms
for composting.
Hoever, Kay used to have a url to a site on worm composting. I
think
it was produced by her better half. (The site, that is, not the
compost. {:-))
There, it was stated quite unequivocally that it was unnecessary
to
obtain special worms for a wormery, and that garden earthworms
were as
good as anything.

You can get composting worms from your garden, but earthworms, ie
Lumbricus
terrestris, would not be any use at all. Wrong type completely.

Firstly, the worms were sold to me by a firm which specialises in worm
composting accessories.

In which case they will not be 'earthworms'.

Secondly, that url to which Kay used to draw our attention was written
by someone whose professional research is concerned with a study of
worms.
Do I believe him ot you?

As I studied the ecology of Earthworms extensively at university, I would
suggest a third possibility: you have incorrectly remembered what you read
on this site. If you would care to provide a direct link to your evidence,
I will, of course, apologise. Similarly, if it turns out that you are
mistaken, perhaps you could do the decent thing?


--
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein