Re: Composting
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- Subject: Re: Composting
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:22:39 -0400
Karen,
Last year, when I did a series on wildlife in the garden, I found this link
to one of the most informative and entertaining pages on critters in
compost that I've read. Hope it helps you:
http://gnv.fdt.net/~windle/pests1.htm
If your compost is hosting mice, it needs to be wetter:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: KAREN_STEWART@HP-UnitedKingdom-om9.om.hp.com
> Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 4:30 AM
>
> Does anyone have a web address for a site which will help me
identify
> the things living in my compost so I know whether or not they would
be
> harmeful to my plants if I spread it on the garden?
>
> There are tiny almost translucent worms less than a thumnail long
and
> lots of small flies with brownish orange bellies. I compost garden
> and vegetarian kitchen waste in a black plastic woven bin with some
> air holes though it tends to get too soggy, and I used well rotted
> horse manure as the catalyst.
>
> There was a mouse nesting in the shredded newspaper I'd added to
> improve the moisture balance, but I persuaded her to leave only to
> find she tunnelled under the shed instead.
>
> TIA
> Karen in Cheshire
>
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