"Soakaway Worms" Fact or Fiction???

[jackpoint]

SoakAway Worms

Any thoughts?

 

[worms]

£99 for a bucket of worms! :shock:

It would be interesting to see this in action and to learn more about the species that they are selling but these look like the same worms that will populate any area of rotting material such as a compost, so if the food source in your soak away is adequate I would have thought they should populate it with little need for outside assistance! (Equally I have never understood why people buy worms for their wormery or compost!)

The linkage that they quote between clogged soakaways and absence of worms may well be true but only because most worms will not survive in completely waterlogged ground. I would be very surprised if this could be reversed by the addition of fresh worms to the waterlogged ground. I would be interested to see data on the survival rates for a bucket of worms emptied into a functional septic tank.

I love this bit:

Contary to popular belief, sewage worms do not drown in water, sludge or silt if there is oxygen present. In the silt, sludge, soil or water of most septic tanks and soakaways there is an anerobic process that takes place. Because of this natural process the worms exist comfortably.

The concept of oxygen-rich, anaerobic conditions makes my head hurt! :roll:

EDIT: Actually, that quote refers to sewage worms - totally different beastie to what they show in their picture of soakaway worms. Sewage worms (Tubifex spp) will live in anaerobic sludge but only if there is oxygen available in the water flowing over the sludge.

 

[wobs]

(Equally I have never understood why people buy worms for their wormery or compost!)

Different sort of worm to what one gets in your garden. A wormery worm is usually the Tiger Worm, which can be bought at an anglers shop.

 

[worms]

(Equally I have never understood why people buy worms for their wormery or compost!)

Different sort of worm to what one gets in your garden. A wormery worm is usually the Tiger Worm, which can be bought at an anglers shop.

Hmmm... Eisenia foetida should be around in most gardens. Composts were around for a long time before anyone started selling worms! I've started new composts many times and they have always become populated by E.foetida without any input from me!

 

[DJH]

Hmm, I wonder what type of worms they are that live in our dung heap then? The whole heap is alive with them so they obviously like donkey doo doo...
A picture will follow for identification purposes.

Doug

 

[worms]

If they are red and stripey (which they almost certainly are), they are obviously trading at £99 per 1,000!

 

[MdB]

Hmmm... Eisenia foetida should be around in most gardens

If they are red and stripey (which they almost certainly are)

So how come you know so much? I would never have guessed.... :wink:

 

[angrybird]

He's talking about his cousins, silly :lol:

 

[LadyArowana]

You should meet the Australian branch of his family :shock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthworm

 

[worms]

I'm keeping my head down, there's an angrybird around!

 

[LadyArowana]

I'm keeping my head down, there's an angrybird around!

There's never a Zebra when you need one!

 

[DJH]

f they are red and stripey (which they almost certainly are), they are obviously trading at £99 per 1,000!

Yes they are and there's thousands of them, thousands!! I guess I'm sounding a bit excited but I'm a worm millionaire... yippee

I didn't like accidentally wounding some of them before when digging into the heap but I definitely won't hurt any from now on... yippee, loads of Euros.

Doug

 

[worms]

I'm a worm millionaire... yippee

You've clearly got enough worms to single-handedly sort out, once-and-for-all, all the problems with all the septic tanks in Ireland! Like St Patrick and the snakes, only in reverse!

 

[DJH]

St Douglas. Now that has a nice ring about it... yep, I'll settle for that. How do you change your login name on here... :lol:

Doug

 

[LadyArowana]

Well it seems there's a Blessed George Douglas already... anyone know if Catholicism is like actors Equity and no two saints can have the same name?

 

[Penners]

anyone know if Catholicism is like actors Equity and no two saints can have the same name

Apparently they can (if you believe Wikipedia)...

The name "Valentine", derived from valens (worthy, strong, powerful), was popular in Late Antiquity. About eleven other saints having the name Valentine are commemorated in the Roman Catholic Church.

 

[Penners]

Isn't this forum amazing? In just over one page it's morphed from soakaway worms to saints' names.

 

[worms]

Isn't this forum amazing? In just over one page it's morphed from soakaway worms to saints' names.

In all probability, performing some arcane rite to St Doug of the Donkeys (or to St Vincent Ferrer if you want the version approved by the Vatican and the construction industry) is just as likely to be effective as a £99 bucket of worms!

 

[Penners]

...and a lot cheaper!

 

[DJH]

Ok,so who want's some worms then? They're all grown organically in a medium passed by donkeys and counted individually by Mrs DJH so don't expect any free ones.

Doug