Composting's Brass Ring--Dumping-Out Day!

Last week, I emptied out half of this summer's finished compost. The worms had done their work for the last few months and all that was left in the bin (besides the worms) were rich, crumbly worm castings all ready to spread among our newly planted irises. As I said, I dumped out only half of the castings, saving the other half and as many of the worms as possible to start up a new "batch" of composted castings.
What I did was this:
For about two weeks beforehand, I put kitchen scraps on only one side of the bin, trying to get all of the worms to move over to that side. (Most of them did, but you know, some of them didn't get the memo or whatever and they stayed on the non-kitchen-scrap side. Sigh.) I took the bin out to the garden (Okay, my husband hauled it outside--that thing is HEAVY!). Then I dug up the castings from the side where I hadn't been putting any scraps, the side that was now mostly empty of worms--and that's what I spread over the new iris beds. After that, we picked up all the clunky clods of clay that had been dug out of the garden when the irises were planted and we dropped those in with the remaining compost and the worms. Within a day, the little wigglers had moved into their new lumps of clay soil and were already busy turning it into "black gold" for my garden!