Compost red wiggler worms slow down their consumption of organic scraps in the wintertime, but we humans keep producing the scraps. So, to reinforce the worm workload, we ordered a thousand more red wigglers from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm.
Image – the compost bin after introducing the new worms. Click on the image to enlarge.
The worms arrived in the mail today, so to get things started, I gave them a “drink.” The worms are packed in dry peat and come in a bag (see insert in photo). The next step was to dig down below the organic scraps in the compost bin to the layer of worm castings below. I added some moist garden soil and put the ball of worms on top of the soil. The instructions that come with the worms say to cover them with a wet newspaper. The worms will absorb the moisture and begin to crawl into the soil and thence start consuming scraps within 48 hours.
Red Wigglers…..The Cadillac of Worms!
Yep – we now have a couple thousand of those little Cadillacs boring holes in the bottom layers of organic scraps. 😀
It’s actually a line from a WKRP episode. Some radical preacher was getting advertisers to pull their ads from WKRP, and Mr. Carlson has a talk with one of his long-term clients where they reminisce about how they wrote the jingle for “Red Wigglers….The Cadillac of Worms”.
Ahhh – I remember the program but never watched it much. I was into packet radio in those days and writing BBS programs for TRS-80 and Commodore 64. Yep I was very nerdy in those days. 😉
Geez…..packet on a C=64!
I had an A&A Engineering modem for my C=64 and kept it when I moved up to my C=128. I used the “DigiCom64” software from Germany, and had many fine packet QSO’s with local guys and THE MIR!
I still have all that stuff out in the garage, along with a PK-64 that’s never been used.
I keep threatening to set up a “Vintage Packet Station”, but about the only things using packet now are APRS and the DX clusters.
Northrop Radio Club bought a PK-64. I took it home and interfaced it with the C-64 – that’s when I met Jim Pitman and Neal Hudson and got to know a bunch of other URAC guys. I was ARRL Los Angeles Section Manager in those days and went to speak at various clubs including K6AA.
Cool/ I didn’t get involved with URAC until 1995.
Did you know Jim Pitman passed away a couple of months ago?
Neal is still his ornery old self!
I did not hear about Jim’s passing. 🙁 Condolences to Bev – dunno if she remembers me, though.
Neal “The Pride of Lomita” has always been a curmudgeon – it figures that he hasn’t changed.
So you probably know Tom Grove, K6LQI? He’s big on tube radios, still runs an ARC-5, and volunteers a lot down at Fort MacArthur.
Never had the pleasure of meeting Tom. Maybe if we’re at the next FD, we can hook up.