I only have three distinct (to me) worm populations, but they all seem to like compost amended soils. My wigglers are the predominant worm in my compost piles and earthworms predominate m,y soils. Worms really flock to piles of wet newspaper---here anyway. No help from me.

Hi annpat. No difference in today's newsprint paper quality? Our local newspaper take much longer to break down now. Guess better quality so less ink.

I wasn't talking about composting it though. I often use full newspapers as a mulch, and worms love to congregate under the damp paper.

@annpat_gw ,are you all set for Fall harvest? I've been meaning to pass along a clever idea one of your counterparts in Texas came up with. This ol boy used free wood pallets to build cattle racks for his pickup truck. Between those and bungee cords he can stack bags of leaves so high he must avoid low overpasses. In the off season his racks do double duty hauling goats. I recommend you skip the goats , one day his ate his entire leaf stash,bags and all.

Now that weather has cooled off me and these other loafers will be making the rounds to Oktoberfest,Gaubodenvolksfest, Bergkirchweih and do a little Crappie fishing along the way. Send pictures when you get in full swing. We love keeping up with what you are doing and making jokes.

I have you know we aren't just a bunch of drunks out having a big time. When we see early voting we pullover to preform our civic duty which is more important than stealing leaves and selflessly hoarding them. The biggest reception yet, or I should say departure as we pulled away from early polling station in Little Rock Sarah Huckabee Sanders and party were tossing fruit baskets our direction.

Have you already started drinking? Are you Germany bound?

The original plan was a tour of German fests until we found our Cajun neighbors wrote the book on shindigs. For less than cost of one round-trip airfare, we were able to buy a retired school bus, enough spray paint to personalize it and install a rooftop luggage rack. So the plan went from Bier and Wurst to Skeet and Boudin. Good thing we installed the rack, with all those that joined on the road, our bus could easily be mistaken for one of those down in Central America.

But this is supposed to be a place for garden discussions. Last evening as the tempo slowed and gators began nodding off an incredible idea was born I could hardly wait to share with GW friends. With patience to wait for good things coming your way, allow cool Autumn breeze to push fallen leaves yonder and beyond, some to return while others seek a place to rest beneath bushes,in nooks and crannies. Left without overzealous human intervention, they will all in their own sweet time choose a place to allow Mother Nature's magic to happen.

Yeess I know cranky ol Mr Grump might complain about your leaves on his property. Tell him to spray a little water on them so they stay put until you come to fetch them. If he eventually realizes you are putting him off and threatens to call city hall, remind him that "procession is 9/10 of the law" and you'd hate to see him recieve a citation. That should hold him until it's time for you to, go reap the harvest and remind Mr Grump how you are a lady/man of their word in taking care of it.

Friends,must I point out environmental advantages? Start with hydrocarbons NOT PRODUCED by vehicles running back and forth to the dump. Seriously,the big-ol truck doesn't even have to come haul them to the dump where they no sooner hit the ground when some scavenger hauls them right back out again. Brilliant!!!

Sometimes people toss them directly from their truck bed into mine---the leaf bags never touching the ground. I don't rake my own yard. A neighbor said this week if I wanted leaves so bad, why didn't I rake my own? I said, that makes no sense, then I'd have to haul leaves to spread around my yard. I live in the woods and have no close neighbors to annoy with my slovenly yard ways. I have 45 acres and I don't rake or manage any of it---I don't even deal with fallen trees.. 15 acres of it is blueberry field, but I think I'm going to let that go back to habitat.

I do---seriously---take your point. I shop the same days I haul compostables, but some fall days I do make two runs. I don't mow, blow or chip, though.

Oh, and the best part is I just spent the past year using other people's, paper, Lowes' leaf bags for my trash bags.