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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello All,

Sometimes you just feel dumb.

Every year after I empty my composter in the spring, I buy a
can of dew worms from the local worm vending machine, that
fisherman use, and put the can of worms into my new batch of
compost.

This year I saw a button on the vending machine for
"spawn".  I thought spawn was worm egg casings, and bought a
can.  Boy was I dumb!

They turned out to be fish eggs.  Did not figure that out
till I was home, opened the can and found this inside;

http://www.rockwoodheaven.com/livebaitimages/eggs.jpg

What can I do with spawn, other than fishing bait?  Can they
go in the rain barrel or drainage pond and give me some
mosquito eating fish?  Or should I just bury them in the
compost and let them rot?

Everything else that comes out of that vending machine is
alive, so I assume the eggs (spawn) are alive.  I could just
be having another attack of dumbness.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b