• Another roto-tiller question (wheel usage)

    From cookeroffaith40@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 11 20:36:45 2020
    So the wheels aren't helpful when tilling?

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  • From Tim R@21:1/5 to cookero...@gmail.com on Tue May 19 12:50:56 2020
    On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 11:36:47 PM UTC-4, cookero...@gmail.com wrote:
    So the wheels aren't helpful when tilling?

    The OP was 11 years ago.

    However, within the thread:
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    Very few worms are harmed during rototilling, the vast majority burrow
    deeper then you can till as soon as they feel the vibrations of your
    machine. Earthworms are both male and female, each produces both eggs and sperm. Earthworms reproduces at a far greater rate than you can rototill
    them, fortunately There is no shortage of earthworms, all the world's earthworms weigh more than all other animal life combined. If not for the preditors that live by feeding on earthworms the planet would be so over run with earthworms so as to make the planet uninhabitable for any other animal life.
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    that doesn't all sound right, especially since the US had no earthworms until Europeans arrived. (The worms arrived in ship's ballast, and began eating the forest floor litter. The ecology of the New World was totally different back then.)

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Tim R on Wed May 20 08:52:21 2020
    Tim R wrote:
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    that doesn't all sound right, especially since the US had no earthworms until Europeans arrived. (The worms arrived in ship's ballast, and began eating the forest floor litter. The ecology of the New World was totally different back then.)

    it depends upon where you are and what you
    consider native (what time frame):

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/earthworm-native-united-states-more-questions-from-readers-180958094/


    songbird

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