Hi Lime You can post what you want here or in a note enclosed with your seeds. You don't need to post what you are sending. I will also check your trade lists, so be sure thay are updated. As long as you can get seeds in by end of September you can join this swap. I agree the swaps with more people are the best! I started an update on this swap in this forum.. I will post there when I receive your seeds. You can also post there with any questions or to post your wants. I think it's a good idea to post your wants here...that way everyone can see them and they might have what you are looking for that they might not have sent in otherwise. Chris

ajk23 The one effort of work I allow myself on behalf of vermicomposting is shake, shake, shake sifting out as yet uncomposted bedding from the vermicopost or vermicastings. To accomplish this I let the bin dry out a bit and give it a bit extra time. Then I scoop it into a ¼ inch mesh container or anything at all similar. When it is a bit dry the vermicastings easily shake right into a container leaving only the uncomposted larger bits of egg carton or cardboard. This is easily dumped right back on top of the bin. The bin loves this. The new food additions are inoculated with great wee beasties to work for you. Hummersteve “I have holes drilled in these bins bottoms to look the same as factory towers” We address the mail to these worms as .wormfactory and the worms seem not at all the wiser. Plus worm smart Hummersteve has lots more $$$ not invested in worm factories. Sbryce The conveyors system sounds real cool. Jasdip “naturally crawl down to get away from the light” yup, yup. Chuckiebtoo "worm out" the less desirable...ahem... "segments" of the herd” You are 100% back now. “lazy, sickly, mentally-deranged worms left to wallow” 101% Boukmn “w/o guilt” First time I have heard of that qualification. I think it is apt. Your worm harvester solution may be revolutionary. I do not think I have heard of similar before. Putting your idea here will be a test drive for it. Posters here will have more concern for the well-being of the worms whereas others may just look at them as livestock. My thoughts, for free, mind you, are if anything is needed to make the worms leave then their job there was not really done yet. Or the worms would all be gone. Secondly the high value not in the castings but in the unhatched unable to escape the heat cocoons. Time for them to hatch, refine the castings, the adults prepared it perfectly for baby worms, and for the worms to follow the adults is needed. Time is free. Time is expensive. Is this valuable asset of baby worms being tossed away? On the other hand your post was verbally skilled enough to write advertising copy that would effectively make these valid points null and void and earn big bucks. Unlike the worm bin sellers could you please at least include well written instructions so those of us here do not have to spend a zillion hours fixing up things due to crap instructions? “On a larger scale it is easy to see how using sub-litter heat in this way could make a commercial vermicomposting operation more profitable.” Profitable yes. But would it really be vermicastings or just compost a worm glanced at sideways? Some might say true vermicastings the worms gave their all and died in. Niivek With that Texas tea, he will have grandma in her rocker tied to the top of the SUV in no time. pz2vn9 Yes I either just dump my worms back on top of the bin along with some safe material or start a new bin. Boukmn “two undesirable features:” “1. They are inefficient and take several days to weeks to work.” Well that depends upon who is doing the work. I do not want to spend one minute even setting up a harvesting apparatus or spend $ of electricity to do my work for me. I prefer to spend nontaxable time to let the worms self-harvest. They know when it is time. I’m not a worm. I do not know when it is time to move to greener pastures. It is a bit like kicking Mother Nature in the butt and saying Thanks, your job here is done now. “2. They always leave some live worms behind in the castings to die.” Worms die. We die. But cocoons survive to live another day. In your method, not so much. The seed stock is fried. Not even eaten by another creature. Just left dead in the product. Eventually rot will do its job and the product will self-cleanse. That will take access to oxygen. That will take… … … time. It’s not nice to fool… An advantage to the "sub-litter heat" is to encourage the cocoons to hatch and it also encourage any random composted seed to sprout in the bin which is good instead of in the garden or seed starting medium. So the idea is good. Maybe for different reasons. On the other hand I do think you have the knack to sell stuff. Californy is the place you ought to be.

Have the old hot air popcorn popper, but my grinder had stopped working a long time ago and I think I tossed it. I had to go to Kitchen Collection at our outlet mall yesterday to replace the carbonating cartridge for my DH SodaStream and got to looking to see what they had. I got a Hamilton Beach grinder on sale for $11.99. I think its pretty much like the one I had that lasted for a long, long time. Like Bellsmom said, if it doesn't last for a long time, I'm not out much. To top it off, I think I found a place that might sell me green coffee beans that's not that far from me. If not, I'll order from Burman. In fact, I know its a long way off, but when DH goes up to Madison, WI for his annual transplant check up, I will go with him and try to find Burman. Madonna

Hi from Norway! I wonder if you still got seeds (free) available? It's difficult to get a hold on them in Norway, really I can't find anyone, I have to look across the border. I`m trying for the first time growing them myself, but still, wait for a result from some seeds I got from Denmark, but they are too old to grow, dried up like "powder" and there is not any sign for life in my "nursery". I know I`m an armature, but try to follow every step about planting seeds (adenium) which I have learned from YouTube. Since I am struggling with a low pension, free seeds are very tempting and be sure the seeds are not dead(too old). Mr Jedoba, I would love to get free seeds if this is still an option?? Your kindly Roy ( Lindquist) email; hjemtilroy@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/roy.lindquist.9Facebook