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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Holey compost piles
Message-ID: <15800007@hpfcla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 14:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 14:25:00 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 03:26:50 EDT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO
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Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs    Aug 17 13:25:00 1984

A while back we talked about compost piles.  Well, even if you don't put
kitty litter in them you can run into animal troubles, I discovered this
morning  (painfully).  While  picking  tomatoes  I happened  upon a wasp
nest, or rather, one of the inhabitants happened upon my thumb.

I had to nuke a quarter of my tomatoes to singe the  suckers.  Who needs
napalm?  Gasoline is more than adequate.

>From now on, I build only tight piles.  No more of this "large vines and
branches  to aerate the heap"  stuff.  The snakes  like it down in there
(more power to them), but so do the wasps, and the snakes don't eat them
for some funny reason...

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"