Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, I have recently adopted some pet snails. Now they are having snail babies! The soil in the terrarium has little tiny bugs in it; I think they might have come from a medium-sized stick I put in there. I want to replace the soil to get rid of the bugs, but amContinue reading
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Earthworms: 1. There are about 2,700 varieties of earthworm 2. Worms are hermaphroditic: they have both sets of sexual organs and line up head-to-tail to mate. 3. The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measure 22 feet in length. 4. Earthworms prefer a healthy, veganContinue reading
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, Help! It’s February and I’m going crazy! The days are short, the sky is grey, and the garden is buried under dirty, slushy snow. I’ve become so irritable and downtrodden myself that even my best friends can’t stand to be around me. Winter has seriously gotten me down. Do you have anyContinue reading
Sunday is Valentine’s Day. When you were small, this meant bringing your mother Cheerios in bed and leaving an intricate paper heart on the desk of the 1st grade heartthrob. There was something thrilling about emptying your decorated shoebox at the end of the day, poring over the little cards, trying to discern who wasContinue reading
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, Should I worry that crickets have decided to move into my basement this winter? Thankfully, they are rather polite tenants and respectful of quiet hours. Although generally nondestructive, they are eating the cat food, which shows some poor judgment on their part – without an ample supply of Friskies, the cats veryContinue reading
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, My girlfriend and I are about to spend our first Christmas together, and already we’re having problems. She insists on getting a real tree, not to mention garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and just about any other living thing she can get her hands on. I say we should get an artificial tree, orContinue reading