If you are looking for garden worms, skip the nightcrawlers as they are too big and spend most of their time too deep to be truly benefit a garden. Oh, they will help with aeration, but they are so deep and they come to the surface when it rains.
To collect native garden worms and/or "red wigglers", start a small compost pile with green vegetation waste. These little buggers will find your pile in no time, and will feed and breed like crazy.
I used to find tens to hundreds when I tossed watermelon rinds (chopped) on top of my compost pile.
The also LOVE soggy, moldy old bread.
Heck, even turning over a rock or two should provide some as well!
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