Operation "Over-winter" a complete success !
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I had origiinally ordered 500 African night crawlers for my compost worm
raised them in the basement until they divided by two
ten times
then created a 4' x 25' pit to dump them(breeders only) into adding all maple leaves on top in
the fall to a height of 3 1/2 to four feet alternating with grass clippings
to see if they'd survive a New England Winter and sub zero temperatures.
I also wanted to have them create a modified (worm eaten) soil in that bed with
Perfect friability for this springs transplanting's out of the
green house and the plan worked flawlessly with soil so incredible I was giggling.
I skimmed off all the leaf mats with my hay pitch fork and piled them into a worm pile that's four feet high i'd say close to 3 yards size then in the middle I dumped six months of garbage i'd collected in the compost barrel consisting of 80% egg shells which
encourage them to BREED (calcium) and covered that with 5 gallons of Purina worm chow to attract them and of course feed them covering it with another 2 feet
of wet maple leaf mats and soil in alternate layers.
now all I have to do when I want more fertility anywhere is to shove my shovel
handle deep into the soil wiggle it round and round to make a tunnel
add a handful of worms
like grabbing spaghetti throw them in the hole
and top it off with some worm chow and walk away.