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Old 09-12-2011, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Martin[_2_] View Post

How do the worms living in our lawn and in fields survive? I think we
should be told. :-)
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They go down deep, so they avoid the low surface temperatures.

Worms in a wormery may die in the same way as plants in the ground can survive winter by dying back to just roots, but the same plant in a pot may die, because the entire pot is frozen.
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