I'm so excited (maybe it's a year of quarantine talking) but I just spent several days making and installing worm tubes to compost directly into my garden. Compost and worms are in! 🎉

Very interesting
Tell me a bit more , how does this work ? what kind of worms?
Do they stay there year round?

Awesome! I did a similar thing a few years ago with a long cardboard tube that a "sunsetter awning" came in. Cut into about 3 foot sections, I had a few of them set around the garden. After about 3-4 years, they had mostly rotted away. Now those spots are where I go to get "some good dirt." I did not add worms because they just magically appear whenever and wherever organic matter is decomposing.

gardengus said:Very interesting
Tell me a bit more , how does this work ? what kind of worms?
Do they stay there year round?

I've been composting in bins for years and just recently learned about the tubes. Food is added to the tubes and the worms travel in and out through the holes, and deposit nutrients to the soil within a 3' radius. I did add handfuls of red wrigglers from my bins to each of the tubes along with the chopped up food scraps. I use a hand crank auger each time I add food, and next spring I will also use the auger to empty each tube. So far when I add food and mix it in, I've seen a increase of worms in the "diners" (tubes). I'm not 100% sure that the red wrigglers will survive the winter, but my thoughts are that they should.