Milk carton makes cheap and easy flat to start seeds

I'll be trying this real soon. Go here for information...Milk carton makes cheap and easy flat to start seeds

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How Many Worms Are In A Pound?

Well, spring is in the air. Time to check our worms and get the worm beds ready. WOW. What a wonderful sight-- our worms. Just love them.Since we're in Washington State and it can be colder our worms needed some winter protection to be on the safe side. If you live in the north or where it may get below freezing often during the winter, we recommend. putting your worm bin under cover or in the garage. Our bins that during the fall had one pound of worms --now have over 5 pounds. Wow. Yea.Now, that reminds me --'What is a Pound of Worms'? Composting Worms are small-900 to 1000 worms per pound. European Night Crawlers-about 450-500 per pound and African Night Crawlers are hugh--with only about 100- 150 per pound. We have raised the composting and European Night Crawlers as the African Night Crawlers do better in warmer conditions, and we're in Washington State.If you're lucky and can pick your worms up when buying them--check them over. Recently we know of a Worm Farm selling about 1/2 pound worms with 1 1/2 pound of bedding as 2 pounds of worms. Worms are packed in bedding when shipped--BUT a pound of composting worms 900 to 1000 worms make up a pound. Usually one pound of worms comes in about one pound of bedding.Happy Gardening. J.A.ROSE-BARTLETT 'Worm Guys'.

http://www.wormguys.com/

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
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Did Ya Know?

Got this info from 'Worm Farm Secrets'. http://www.WormFarmingSecrets.com

DID YOU KNOW?
More and more farmers in India are seeing the benefits of usingorganic fertilizers. One of the components of organic fertilizersare earthworms themselves!
In Kothiya (Bihar), farmers are using cow dung mixed withearthworms. The resulting mixture allows earthworms to create their wormcastings as well as mixing the soil. At 250 rupees a kilo(about $5USD) it is more expensive than chemical fertilizers, butis preferred due to a reported benefits of 90%!
Full article here: http://www.dailyindia.com/show/351808.php

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Kitchen Herb Gardening

Grow fresh herbs in your kitchen. It's easy. Go here.. http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Kitchen-Herb-Gardening/Detail.aspx

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