Janie,

I don't mess with them worms none. I have these composting bins up in the woods where I throw chopped up leaves and grass clippings and stuff from the kitchen and, even in the coldest of winter, you dig don in there 4 'er 5 inches and its warm from composting and the worms live in there year round and multiply like crazy. There's hundreds and hundreads of 'em in there. In the spring, I'll just turn it over with a pitchfork and get me a couple 2 or 3 hundred of 'um and put 'um in the veggie garden right after its been tilled. We use straw as mulch in the veggie garden and its keeps everything all moist and them worms jus love it in there. I can go out with a shovel in the middle of August when it ain't rained for a week and in a shovel full of dirt there like 10 worms.. And they is all smilin', too... Happiest worms in Wes Ginny... Almost heaven... Nevermind....

Bobert