Many gardeners rely on compost to help improve their soils. Taking compost a step further, some gardeners use worms to break down the compost even more. Vermicomposting, or worm composting, uses red ...

Composting has an ick factor. Between gardening and cooking, I produce a lot of waste that goes right into the “green bin” for city composting and I’m always super happy to shuffle it to the curb and ...

While many home gardeners compost traditionally with an outdoor pile or bin, vermicomposting can be a more compact way to recycle kitchen scraps utilizing the power of worms. Vermicomposting is a form ...

Sign up for Basic Composting from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, held outdoors in the gardens and orchard at the Live Oak Grange, ...

They arrived early on a Tuesday morning in a cardboard box. “1000 Red Worms,” read the label in large letters printed beneath the USPS tracking number. Return address: Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. My ...

Since buying a worm composter last summer, I have become something of an obsessive. Every day I open up the wormery to gloat over the mass of writhing, slithering creatures gamely chomping their way ...

Q: Where have all my worms gone? About 20 years ago, I started a compost pile. I purchased a small tub of worms and had wonderful success. All these years the worms flourished. There were tons of them ...

Some worms are a welcome sight to see in your garden -- but others you'll want to get rid of. Here's how to tell which worms ...