Besides being my new favorite insult phrase, the Urban Worm bag is a versatile all-star compost factory. It's quick to set up ...

Worms are a gardener’s best friend: how to vermicompost food scraps inside your house Published: Dec. 17, 2024, 10:00 a.m. Who wants a worm bin for the holidays?

You can never have too much bedding for your worms. When you feed your worms your kitchen scraps, add more bedding. You can buy bedding for your worm farm, but you probably have what you need right in ...

The food scraps and leftovers you normally throw away can be turned into new soil or fertilizer and soil conditioner.

Without this, the food scraps become a smelly, rotten mess and your worms can become sick. Shredded newspaper is the most accessible, but plain, brown cardboard works as well. You just want to ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I live in a condominium with a small patio where I garden. I don’t have a place for a compost pile, but am thinking about a worm bin. Can you advise on the best way to get one ...

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This type of composting uses worms to recycle food scraps and other organic materials into a much sought-after soil amendment called vermicompost, or worm castings. Vermicomposting can be done ...

Here’s a tip: Let worms eat your garbage. When they do, they transform food scraps into a rich, organic fertilizer called worm castings that your plants will love. It could even turn into a fun ...

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 ...

If you have a garden, a kitchen, kids, a concern for the environment or any of the above then a worm farm is for you. Here’s one you can DIY in under half an hour and feel smug about for years ...

Worm Food: Lunch Scraps Nourishing STEM Education at Wichita School. With the help of a Koch Classroom Grant, a Wichita elementary school teacher is successfully helping her students learn about ...