Re: NANFA-- nightcrawlers: predators?

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:17:35 -0400

You might want to go easy on the coffee grounds; caffeine is the coffee
plant's way to combat insects--it shorts out their nervous systems.
(Probably doesn't do ours much good, either.)

Also, coffee trees produce lots of related alkaloids, to poison the soil so
that othe plants can't grow in it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- nightcrawlers: predators?

> Technically its an offset eleven, but you are close enough and the judges
> award you the points for the answer.
>
> Seriously, I thought it might help start a thread on worms, since I
believe
> them to be the best food for fish and herps ( those that eat them
anyways),
> and the other uses that have already been mentioned. I dump all my scraps,
> coffee filters , tea bags included, in my compost pile, and the worms and
> other stuff turn it into what looks like sandy peat moss. I fixed some
lawn
> around the new addition to the pond with it, and without fertilizer the
> grass has germinated in three days, and in two grown two inches tall.
> Amazing stuff. Not to mention I don't break my back carrying the trash to
> the road. Scraps are heavy, and can smell really bad.
>
> Ray

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