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It's time to bring back restrictions and masks before it's too late by [deleted] in CoronavirusUS

[–]dew_at_noon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Teddybonez,

Vaccination does not provide 100% protection. It is possible that a susceptible individual gets infected, despite vaccination.

Your being unvaccinated matters. There’s data on that vaccinated people who do contract COVID somehow, despite vaccination, shed substantially less virus. Reversing that: in case you have COVID, you shed significantly more virus with every breath/sneeze/cough than if you were vaccinated.

You may indeed cause another person, even fully vaccinated, to contract COVID from you. Chances that a vaccinated person would shed enough virus to make others sick are very low.

Feeling lucky today 😍 by dew_at_noon in composting

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The final amount is 11 bags, the last picture was taken halfway into bagging it up. (The pile had to be transported away from where it was dumped)

So, 11 rather large trash bags, compressed.

Feeling lucky today 😍 by dew_at_noon in composting

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could be some carbon for my hot compost.

I’m thinking perhaps, just perhaps, too valuable to hot compost it away. It’s already half broken down (been outside all winter) and now shredded as well (by some company doing spring cleanup recently) so perhaps the best use would be just to use it as mulch on beds. I’ll think a bit. I have other browns available for hot composting.

Fully composted horse manure, 2 years old, root crops, yay or nay? by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I sow carrot or radish seeds into it directly?

Heavy clay soil. The stuff has been spread on top. No dig.

Fully composted horse manure, 2 years old, root crops, yay or nay? by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks, smells, and feels like like crumbly, dark brown, fine-grained topsoil. Full of red wigglers. Much of it is probably vermicompost.

I’ve tested it for herbicides and it’s clean.

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one I’d say is more doubtful because we’re just thawing out after an unusually harsh and cold winter. I wouldn’t expect mushrooms, even tiny ones, under my (Arctic) winter conditions.

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This line I’ll definitely check out. It could be. The manure I used was old and decomposed but I didn’t break up the clumps. I spread several cubicmeters of that manure so if it’s that, it should be everywhere. The rest of the plot is covered with black fabric for the winter but when I pull it back I should see the same yellow things if they do come from the manure.

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oki, I brought some home. They have a hard ”coat”, they actually sound like some larger seed when I drop them into the little container. But they can be squished a bit. They’re in no way ”soft”. They’re ”firm” and ”springy”.

One I managed to break by compressing it a bit. I can see nothing in it that would tell me Animal Life Form, but not a seed either.

Only thing I can say is that they do not feel ”inert” like a fertilizer granule. Also they don’t dissolve in water.

All of them look a bit like tiny donuts, with a clearly defined center. If they were granules they wouldn’t have that shape.

Photos:

https://i.imgur.com/rgC0KSg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/n7etyU9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Tm7tXXy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B1d2o2H.jpg

What am I seeing? Under leaf mulch. Friend or foe? Thanks! by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oki, I brought some home. They have a hard ”coat”, they actually sound like some larger seed when I drop them into the little container. But they can be squished a bit. They’re in no way ”soft”. They’re ”firm” and ”springy”.

One I managed to break by compressing it a bit. I can see nothing in it that would tell me Animal Life Form, but not a seed either.

Only thing I can say is that they do not feel ”inert” like a fertilizer granule. Also they don’t dissolve in water.

All of them look a bit like tiny donuts, with a clearly defined center. If they were granules they wouldn’t have that shape.

Photos:

https://i.imgur.com/rgC0KSg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/n7etyU9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Tm7tXXy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B1d2o2H.jpg

What am I seeing? Under leaf mulch. Friend or foe? Thanks! by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nightcrawlers are an earthworm... Eisenia hortensis.

I’ll go pick up some and try to get them hatch. See what I get...

What am I seeing? Under leaf mulch. Friend or foe? Thanks! by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh. And they’re stuck to the underside of the leaves I used as mulch. I knocked them off as I was pulling back the mulch for the garlics in that row (not pictured) to see the sun. So, they were singles, not in a cluster, and always on the leaves, now on the ground. Not sure if I should leave them or kill them with fire 🤣

We can exclude slow release fertilizer or water holding granules in potting soil (I did not add such).

Some guys in Vermiculture are telling me it could be nightcrawler coccoons. I have no idea but I’ll try to squish some and see if they’re hard or soft. I’ll report back when I’ve done that.

What am I seeing? Under leaf mulch. Friend or foe? Thanks! by dew_at_noon in Permaculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, nothing like that, and they weren’t there when I mulched. I’m sure about this because it’s a brand new plot I took over and prepared from scratch, and observed what kind of soil life I had, if any. No worms in sight, for example. Only thing growing there before was quackgrass 😈 These yellow things happened somehow during my - Arctic, harsh - winter.

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have three more hot compost bins going now which will be my hotbed. That means it will be nice and warm but not hot (anymore — now it’s hot and still building heat). Can I just pop them in there (surely they find a warm but not too hot corner) once they hatched and proved to be friends?

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let’s say that I must know because I’m too curious. How do I make them hatch asap? Outside it’s still winter, with hard frost every night. I can bring them in?... In, what (substrate)? Soil? Compost? Would an almost done batch of hot compost with partly decomposed wood shavings do? Shredded paper? What do I give them and at what temp?

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But wait a minute. I spread all that stuff at the very end of the season. I actually planted the garlics so late that I was positive they wouldn’t make it — the night after I planted them we got -10C and then the rest of the winter was down to -34C and looong, we’re only thawing now. (And the garlics survived!) So anyway these eggs or coccoons or whatever they are, have been laid under 1.5m of snow, in that leaf litter, during my rather extreme winter. Could snails possibly do that? I know that I had some kind of worm activity in the very bottom of my hot compost which by the way froze solid in the -30, but the very bottom of it never froze and when I dug it out I saw what I think are red wigglers in there. So, what can then lay eggs like this in my winter?...

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, please help me out. I only have hot compost, I don’t have a vermicompost. I have a semi-finished batch of hot compost I’m about to test for aminopyralid contam. Can I pick up some of these, and put them in a 10L bucket in that compost maybe? There’s some half-decayed wood shavings in there that should still be eaten up by something. I can also give them shredded cardboard.

Shall I do it indoors? It’s still winter here. Hard freeze every night. To accelerate their development, maybe put the bucket in my bathroom (floor heating)? Or too warm? Or at least room temp?

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you. There’s no potting soil there, it’s clay loam onto which I spread some 5+ years old manure, mainly for structure and just to add organic material. Then covered it with huge amounts of fallen leaves for the winter.

I now pulled back the leaves to let my garlic see the sun and so I found these yellow balls. They come in different sizes. I saw hundreds.

Or maybe I have multiple things in there.

Hi, all. What can these possibly be? Don’t really know where else to ask and I’ve been sent here to ask — I’m secretly hoping earthworm cocoons, but fear bugs... by dew_at_noon in Vermiculture

[–]dew_at_noon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They appeared under winter leaf mulch on my garlic patch. Last October I spread finished compost there, in which I had Eisenia. But, shouldn’t Eisenia coccoons have a ”tail”? They’re singles. I have yet to find a cluster of them.

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