They weigh less than your little finger, yet each one of them can produce up to 10 pounds of rich plant fertilizer per year. They are prolific - 100 or more of them can thrive in a cubic foot of your ...

If thoughts of a steaming-hot compost pile in your backyard are just not practical for whatever reason, consider making a worm bin instead. It’s a great project for even apartment gardeners and a ...

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, ...

The past few days at Our Garden has been all about worms and price tags. No, we weren’t trying to put the price tags on the worms, or put worms on price tags. The weekly Our Garden talk was on ...

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 gardeners stand on our success. Literally. For bragging rights to our flowers, foliage and fruit, we start with what lies underfoot, the soil. Our goal: rich, crumbly, nutrient-packed, ...

Rock dust/basalt: Basalt is an aphanitic extrusive igneous rock that is rich in iron and magnesium. A light sprinkle over your beds will add a boost of micronutrients. Mycorrhizae: These are fungi ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Earthworms may soon have their own Facebook fan page if some worm worshippers have their way. “I had forgotten how good food could taste fresh from the garden until I was ...

In the last 8 years, I've replanted all my back yard grass into a half-acre vegetable garden with perennial and annual beds, too. However, I have been perplexed by the lack of earthworms. The previous ...

As home gardeners are cleaning up their spring flower beds and vegetable patches, they might notice signs of a relatively new invasive species that’s made its way across Pennsylvania. Though Asian ...