Re: Re****t From The Garden...."Cap'n Thar Be Worms Here!"

In article <ompomelet-E32F57.09465802052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <p5gk1419v08guqnum1cnuetigskt0flhvj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie wrote:
> 
> > I was amazed at the number of earthworms I saw!  There were easily
> > several dozen in each hole I dug for the transplants, several adult
> > worms and many small worms.  This soil improvement business *is* what
> > it is cracked up to be.
> 
> It is indeed. :-)
> Anywhere where there is a high manure content, the soil is rich with 
> worm castings in the morning.
> 
> I can gather fish bait by putting down a piece of old carpet and keeping

> it wet anywhere there is fertile soil.

 We have a school yard about 3 miles from our house.  Very sandy loam 
with a special attribute.  The place is loaded with night crawlers.  My 
Dad once again had me out on Rainy nights to catch them.

 The How maybe of interest.

 Drive two copper stakes in the ground about ten feet apart. 
Attach a wire to each and have switch inline this hooked up to a car 
battery.  Drives em right up to the surface.  Good bait and good for our 
garden.  This maybe considered dangerous today but I'd guess walking 
about on thin Ice in freezing  looking at stakes you planted to mark 
underwater foot bridges would be too.  Aside some of those stakes turned 
into trees in time.

 Bill whose Dad had me gigging for frogs with a flash light and a club 
with water up to my chest also had me trapping rats (Muskrats when I was 
8..  Ah 30 cents for a black pelt bought by Sears. 50 years ago)  Yup 
Sears.
 Still remember a vacation in 1955 when my Dad disappeared one night and 
the next morning the icebox had 60 large frogs moving slow.

 Dad BTW is 84 and was a Marine gunner on the USS Biloxi  ww2.  Taught 
me  how to shoot.

-- 
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA