You might want o look into worm tubes. It’s a way to add your worms to vegetable beds.

If you let your worm bin worms loose in your garden bed and have them fend for themselves, they will soon become bird food.

What if I continue to bury food and other organic material in the garden bed? I'm not thinking of m entire worm bin in the garden, just a few at a time.

Quite a few people I gave worms to were going to do the same as you. They thought, if there are worms in the soil/earth/garden, why can't I release worms that I have to join them and make the soil/earth/garden more fertile more quickly.

We have to remember that these are different species than those. So, different habits/way of life/necessities, so to speak. You are free to do as you wish of course and we are here discussing the pros on cons of any idea and might come up with the perfect idea at the end. Please do not take offense to any suggestion/comment made here. If we had enough input/participants, we will be combining our collective experience and you can draw the winner.

My worms are my precious charges. I protect them because they do for me what they do best, eating, mating, pooping. I rat-proof my bins once I found out something has been rummaging in the bins.I found that just by feeding them and making sure they don't dry out, they're happy. So why put them at risk by releasing them in the garden? It really doesn't save you any work since you'd still have your worm bin. And the amount of pooping in the wild? Who knows how much that is. A cup? I rather have them in the bin which will be much easier to find a mate than in the garden, and produce lots and lots of babies, and to that effect, more and more VC.

If you do want them in your garden, you might want to follow mattman2 suggestions. Or the worm tower.. At least there will be some protection for the worms. Remember RATS.

Taking account to what others have said about birds and rats that is why I suggested a worm tube. Very inexpensive to build and easy to install. Mine is 3ft long with about 2 ft underground. Safe from mice, rats, and birds, (might get moles but I’ve never had that issue). if you have a worm bin and it’s well kept you will get a max number of worms for that bin based on space. Worms will not over populate an area. So if you hit that max you can take 5% out ant put it in your veg bed in a worm tube. If doesn’t work out not much lost, as that 5% removed will repopulate, if does work then your veg bed is even better. I‘d say don’t put them in veg bed with no exceptions of getting them back.

It sounds like 11otis is saying this too just don’t let them loose in your veg garden. Because they could attract rats or other things that feed on them. If you are planning on 2nd bin then go that route

To learn about worm tubes if you want to go that way.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/vermicomposting/making-worm-tubes-for-garden.htm

There has been no offense in any of the posts. I understand the concern with using worm bin worms in garden beds and the reason for worm tubes. Thank you all for this valuable information. I'm new to worm bins. I have already made a second bin from the original worms I will continue to monitor the situation. What do you all do when the worm population continues to grow in your bins? Do you keep making more bins? I don't have anyone to share my worms with or I would give them to someone.

There won't be any big problem from letting some loose in your garden, but no big benefit either. If you're in a location where redworms already exist, that is. I don't keep a worm bin these days but the compost bin is dense with them anyways. I try to return many - some anyway - to the top of the bin, speeding things along, but of course I don't get them all. Others I'll add to garden scrap and leaf piles. But realistically a lot are in the compost I apply around the yard and garden.

As I understand their eggs will be in the soil and hatch when conditions are right. Leave a pile of grass and weed cuttings to rot and get wet and smelly, they will be there. Ground around apple trees always seems to have some, they love windfalls.

It is probably not worth trying to just add some worms to garden, if you're using worm castings there, it will contain some eggs and very small worms anyway. Nothing wrong with experimenting though.

Moles are an issue - but again if your soil already has worms, any nearby moles are probably well aware of the buffet that awaits them.

Good idea, lots of people seem to look for worms, commercial sources often not very reliable.