If they live somewhere besides the dirt you can put DE on the hardscape around the beds. That will kill the ants until it gets wet.
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In winter it rains almost perpetually. I don't think I have a place for a worm farm. My one and only tree has reached the end of its natural life cycle and is dying. There is no shade for one.
If you have room for a 5-gallon bucket out there you can probably get a worm bin going. A white sheet should keep it cool in the heat of summer.
Night crawlers are cool! I caught and sold them to a bait shop when I was a kid. Went through the neighborhood front yards with a flashlight. That wouldn't fly today. Have you noticed they respond to a banging? If you sink a pitchfork into the soil and bang the handle repeatedly at any angle it's like you're the pied piper of crawlers! That place you spoke of especially where they all are. Good for forgetting to get them at night and want some.I have the same trouble with ground freezing here.
I have a 4 x 4 in ground planter area in my front yard that I put black soil into for plants about a foot deep. This area is home to night crawlers for some reason. During the winter months I would have expected them to die, but they just go farther into the ground, (see my post to Carmen above) and I see them again every year. I feed the fish in my pond with them.
LOL, we used to sneak into a local golf course at night after a warm rain with flashlights, they would surface on the green grass. My parents were the ones who took us and snuck us in.
We used them for fishing. Had contests on who got the "longest" one.
I don't suggest doing this, but we kids had a bright idea one day of making an electric rod. We would stick it in the ground and the worms would come up by the dozens. We learned quickly that they didn't last long, the shock killed them apparently slowly, before we were able to make use of them for fishing.