DO you recommend worms for carp?

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"Phil L" wrote in message
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Izaak wrote:
: "Activeviii" wrote in message
: ...
:: best place I have found for them is on well kept school playing
:: field or on the tarmac of old alleyway.
:
: I made my own wormery - by accident. The council were encouraging
: recycling and had various compost bins on sale (very cheap). I
: bought one that is basically a barrel suspended by a spindle through
: the middle. It soon got filled with chopped up twigs and branches
: (by one of those small log shredders). Every day you give the barrel
: one complete spin to mix everything up and allow air into the mixture
: so bacteria can get to work. It's the first time I've ever
: successfully produced compost (took about 6 weeks to rot down). But
: the big bonus was the worms that appeared in the bin, literally
: hundreds of them. It's a mystery where they came from as most of the
: compost was from wood cut from trees and, since the bin is 6 inches
: above the ground, I can't think how they could have crawled up the
: legs of it and in through one of the small ventilation holes.
: Anyway, I'm glad that they are there as I'll always have a supply in
: the warmer months, though there aren't so many in the colder months.
: Anyone else got a wormery story? I'd like ideas about keeping one
: going all year round.

I have a compost heap, which is mostly just lawn cuttings...obviously in
summer,
they are a foot thick, in winter they disappear completely.
At the side of it there's a shed with a sloping roof which all the water
runs
off into the compost - this seems to attract the big thick worms (lobs?)
Aslo when i tip any fresh cuttings into the heap, i turn them in with a
fork, so
that they are partially buried, after a week or two they have almost
rotted into
the soil and I add a fresh lot and do the same again so by the end of
summer
it's just a mass of soil and fully rotted, partially rotted and fresh
grass...the worms are immense and I can easily take out forty or fifty a
week
without diminishing the stocks - never any small ones though, but these
are easy
to find on the paved area of the garden - we have loads of pots and
planters all
over, i just pick them up and there's usually 10 - 12 small worms under
each
one, especially after rain.
The compost is permanently drenched as it's between the shed and the fence
and
never gets any sun at all.