North West is likely to get a lot of snow.

Suffolk is predicted to go down to -3C overnight Friday.

Time to bring anything frost fragile in, methinks.

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On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:55:01 +0100, Martin wrote:

How do the worms living in our lawn and in fields survive? I think we
should be told. :-)

Frost rarely penetrates more than 30cm into the ground...

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Dave.

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.

How do the worms living in our lawn and in fields survive? I think *we
should be told. :-)

* They burrow deeper to escape frost. *Anyway they are a different species
of worm from the ones used in wormeries.

* *Janet

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I think we should be told.

WHY?

But the ones in wormeries also live in the UK, so free-range ones also have to burrow deeper in winter.