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Subject: Re: How do worms get into a new/sterile compost pile?
From: <gardenlenNoSpam@hotmail.com.Invalid>
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 01 03:03:44
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solution #2 alex, no matter how inhospitable soil may appear there
will be some worms there somewhere, so as the mulch breaks down it
becomes attractive to the worms so they come in to multiply and feed.

len

On 25 Feb 2001 02:38:00 -0500, "Alex C." wrote:

>
>My friend is puzzled as to how large amounts of worms eventually appear in
>his dad's compost pile (at the point that the compost is finally
>mature/finished) given the facts that (a) the pile started out with
>materials apparently free of worms, (b) the ground underneath it is hard
>ground (hard clay/sand packed tight and dry in southern California) , and
>(c) there don't seem to be any worms living in the ground that the compost
>pile was started on.
>
>We have come up with three theories:
>1) There are worm-eggs in the material that is being composted and somehow
>some of them survive the high temperatures of the composting process.
>2) There ARE worms in the hard soil beneath the pile and they migrate up
>into it.
>3) It is a miracle outside the bounds of western science.
>
>If anyone has any ideas (or better yet definite knowledge) about this it
>would be fun to hear from you.
>
>Alex
>acensor@bigfoot.com
>(a copy of any reply being sent to my email address would be appreciated
>because I don't visit this group that often.)
>
>

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