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RandyWayne
04-13-2013, 04:06 PM
Just came home from the nursery where we bought a small container of 200 earthworms. We have to BUY things like this living in the Phoenix AZ area. LOL
I want to go back and pick up some praying mantis's as well.
Praxeas
04-13-2013, 04:16 PM
Just came home from the nursery where we bought a small container of 200 earthworms. We have to BUY things like this living in the Phoenix AZ area. LOL
I want to go back and pick up some praying mantis's as well.
For the garden or for fishing?
Miss Scarlett
04-13-2013, 04:43 PM
Just came home from the nursery where we bought a small container of 200 earthworms. We have to BUY things like this living in the Phoenix AZ area. LOL
I want to go back and pick up some praying mantis's as well.
Do you eat the worms and praying mantis's? I once say a scorpion baked on some type bread, so I wondered if you made the same type delicacis made with worms and Mantis's?
RandyWayne
04-13-2013, 06:30 PM
Ok, I thought the reason I bought them was obvious, but apparently not. It is for the garden(s).
Roagiesgal
04-13-2013, 07:22 PM
Ok, I thought the reason I bought them was obvious, but apparently not. It is for the garden(s).Well you could eat them if you had too....:heeheehee
MawMaw
04-13-2013, 07:22 PM
Ok, I thought the reason I bought them was obvious, but apparently not. It is for the garden(s).
Whew! That's good to know you weren't gonna eat em! :heeheehee
Esther
04-13-2013, 07:47 PM
Ok, I thought the reason I bought them was obvious, but apparently not. It is for the garden(s).
:heeheehee
Titus2woman
04-18-2013, 06:58 AM
I get buying the worms where you live but the biggest population of Praying Mantis I ever saw was in the high desert of California, a climate much like Phoenix. Every morning there would be several of them stuck in the screen door having been attracted overnight by the porch light.
With the humidity here we have earthworms galore and lots of other beneficial creatures... Of course we also have mosquitoes, fleas, flies, ants, roaches, spiders, more kinds of venomous snakes than I care to think about, etc. So every climate has it's challenges... I admire you for gardening in yours. :)
houston
04-24-2013, 05:44 PM
Praying mantis?
RandyWayne
04-25-2013, 01:28 PM
Well, after adding 2 hundred healthy worms to our garden and potato barrels, I can safely say that we probably only have about half that amount now on account of the quail making a triumphant return to our back yard. I really do love watching them. They are both pretty and funny as they run around like little commandos (think of the penguins from the movie Madagascar), but they are also healthy meat eaters and LOVE earthworms. Once they discovered the first one not a day goes by where we have to fill in the holes they are digging in our garden.
This is them!
http://www.dongettyphoto.com/Arizona/images/Quail_Gambels.jpg
bbyrd009
04-25-2013, 06:54 PM
I remem something about maintaining (like, supposedly indefinitely) a pop of worms in arid climates...oh ya, 'Hugel Beds.' they're like self-sustaining--maybe no. or little water even?--after they... um, ripen? mature? whatever. Some people down there swear by them. What'cha growing?
RandyWayne
04-25-2013, 07:28 PM
I remem something about maintaining (like, supposedly indefinitely) a pop of worms in arid climates...oh ya, 'Hugel Beds.' they're like self-sustaining--maybe no. or little water even?--after they... um, ripen? mature? whatever. Some people down there swear by them. What'cha growing?
A few different varieties of tomatoes, potatoes and lots and lots of hot peppers! :)
I am keeping the soil moist hoping that enough of the worms are smart enough to borrow too deep for the commando quail to find them.
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