Re: Anyone buy earthworms from bait/tackle shops?

dstack 4/10/2014, 5:02 pm

It says that it's 32% full. I don't get a lot of PMs, especially considering that I was not as active on the forum from Jan-Mar. My last message was from you in Dec.

**sanderson** 4/10/2014, 7:43 pm

Looks like I sent it to myself! Embarassed

mollyhespra 4/10/2014, 9:24 pm

dstack wrote:
I don't know if you saw the story of what that papaya plant has been through. Basically it was contaminated by muriatic acid from my neighbor's pool acid wash. I rinsed off the roots and potted it. She's recovering well! Fortunately muriatic acid doesn't accumulated in the food chain.

Yes, I remember it well; I was so pisssed off at your neighbor's negligence! Glad to see she/he has recovered well.

AtlantaTerry 7/15/2017, 12:40 am

dstack wrote:I'd like to buy earthworms for my boxes, and we have plenty of bait and tackle shops around here. But should I be concerned about contamination of parasites if I don't know where the worms came from, or am I just being paranoid? I've had too much trouble with root knot nematodes to carelessly contaminate what I've worked so hard to build.

I never thought about getting anything but red wiggler worms in the tubs I buy from my local bait shop.

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