Here's another silly question. I compost my pepper tops with the rest of my kitchen scraps by either burying them in the garden or putting them in my worm bin. Have any observant Chile Head gardeners out there ever noticed hot peppers having any effect on worms? I can't say I have, but I may not have been looking closely enough. Tara -- ______________________________________________________ Tara Deen School of Geosciences Division of Geology and Geophysics Building FO5 University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61-2-9351 4271 Fax: 61-2-9351 0184 Mobile: 061 410 538 655 email: tara@es.usyd.edu.au ______________________________________________________