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Post by desertwoman on Apr 15, 2015 18:22:32 GMT -5
Never heard of this movie, "Tremors" . Sounds like something I want to miss
I'm getting the heebie-jeebies just imaging it.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 15, 2015 18:41:26 GMT -5
Giant earthworm monsters dragging people underground if I remember right.
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 15, 2015 19:09:43 GMT -5
Another thing they do, they get out their tiny flashlights and read the newspaper you have put down! That's why you see them in the morning if you lift the paper. They have fallen asleep reading, just like us humans!!
Let's go fishing! That's how I gather a worm or 3.
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Post by gakaren on Apr 16, 2015 0:44:27 GMT -5
I have caught many a night crawler! My son & I used to go out & catch them in Ill. He sold them. The trick is to not shine the light directly one them or cover it with a red bandana....both ways work well. And right after a rain was the best time to get them!
My chickens LOVED them. I used to dig up parts of the chicken yard from time to time and the crawlers would be just below the surface in there....those hens went nuts over them. I guess the crawlers like chicken manure too since there were always so many! |
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Apr 16, 2015 11:18:00 GMT -5
Ahhhhh...Tremors was a movie set in the desert I think and starred Kevin Bacon, whom I love and I did get the heebie-geebies!
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Post by ncgarden on Apr 16, 2015 13:18:07 GMT -5
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 16, 2015 13:36:53 GMT -5
I think that I'll pass on catching up with that movie.
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Post by wheelgarden1 on Apr 17, 2015 19:27:36 GMT -5
I have never had such a huge number of earthworms as I have the past couple of years since going with low/no tlll, and the soil quality reflects it. I have four extra beds with winter cover crops sadly still on them, and once they're tilled under I might just retire my tiller from vegetable garden duty, keeping it for spot use.
As for my worms tonight, it looks like they're evacuating the "basement" for higher ground with the rain we're socked in with.
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Post by oliverman on Apr 18, 2015 8:52:33 GMT -5
I felt good and bad yesterday while plowing a hay field that partly winter killed. I must have sliced up hundreds of thousands of the poor things. Glad there were so many, but wish they hid a bit deeper. First time this field has seen the plow since 2003. The adjacent field has been conventional corn/soybeans for the past 30 years, and I could count on my hands the worms I saw while plowing 10 acres. I wonder if the chemicals kill more worms than the tillage.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 18, 2015 9:12:10 GMT -5
I wonder if the chemicals kill more worms than the tillage. I don't know if the chemicals actually kill the worms but I think that they kill all of the microbes in the soil. That and the lack of organic material makes it unattractive to the worms in my opinion. |
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Post by oliverman on Apr 18, 2015 21:41:02 GMT -5
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Apr 19, 2015 6:33:22 GMT -5
Nice article. TY
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Post by kimmsrđź•Š on Apr 19, 2015 6:34:38 GMT -5
Whether a "chemical" will do harm to earthworms, or any other member of the Soil Food Web, or not depends on which "chemical" and the strength of that "chemical". Keep in mind that soap is a chemical, so anyone that uses an insecticidal soap is using a chemical in their organic garden. Epsom Salt is a chemical as well, a number of things used by organic growers are chemicals.
There are few insecticides that will not kill beneficial insects, as well as the pests, but it may be the dose that determines that. Does tilling kill more earthworms than poisons? Maybe, maybe not. What are you using to do that tilling? A trowel, spade, or fork, probably will do little harm but a rototiller, mould board plow, or disc may. But then again trowels and spades are known to cut earthworms in two. |
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