From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   ...   
   > Dang!  A gourmet restaurant for worms.  You aught to   
   > start charging them for your services!   
   >   
   > Wait, you already do that when you steal their   
   > poop to fertilize your garden.   
   >   
   >:-)   
      
     the sad thing is that when i put them out into the   
   gardens only a few survive.  adult worms really don't   
   cope well with rapid change in soil conditions on   
   top of the fact that many of them are not natives so   
   they will not survive the weather extremes.   
      
     the worms that will survive are those that are natives   
   and who are just about to hatch from their cocoons and   
   perhaps some of the smaller ones that have a chance to   
   acclimate.   
      
     i don't steal their poop.  i just take the buckets   
   out and put them where i want to use their poop/pee   
   and then i keep a few buckets back which are used to   
   restart the buckets.  to take the time to sift the   
   worms from the buckets would take way too long and i'm   
   not running a fancy setup where i could be more able   
   to let the worms migrate like some do.  that's both   
   more expensive and takes more equipment than a simple   
   bucket like what i'm doing.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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