Impressed by compost's contribution to the soil, gardeners conferred on it the nickname "black gold." Even more beneficial worm castings could take the title "black diamonds." Just ask Larry Steele, ...

Want to improve your soil health, process your own food waste, and have the cheapest pets imaginable? Allow me to introduce you to vermicomposting. Vermicomposting is the process of using worms to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It may be hard to wrap your head around the garden value of worm castings — the waste produced by lowly earthworms. They're collected from ...

NOW THAT SUMMER has officially arrived and your garden is growing like crazy, your vegetable garden is in productive mode and the daylight is long — here is a very timely article on the highly ...

This week, she’s praising the humble worm for good soil. While digging over the garden beds last weekend, I noticed I had an abundance of worms, meaning my soil was obviously a drawcard to the ...

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My husband lit up when I brought home worms last week. “I’m goin’ fishing!” he said (sang!) as he plucked a squirming red wiggler from the big plastic foam soda cup. “Not with these!” I told him.“They ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...