Towering sunflowers swaying in the breeze are a symbol of happy days, and they are pretty easy to grow whether you use worm ...

Worm castings offer excellent moisture retention while improving soil aeration and drainage. They never burn plants; instead, they release nutrients over an extended period of time in a form that ...

Worm castings owe their pest control capacity to chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down chitin, an integral constituent of insect exoskeletons, fungus cell walls, and nematode eggshells.

Surrounded by tables selling fruits, vegetables or honey, Cynthia Dort’s table at the Corvallis Farmers Market is stacked ...

Many people are familiar with Grey Bears’ multi-room thrift store and its healthy food programming including free on-site ...

SANDY RIVER PLANTATION — It started with 3,000 Red Wiggler worms. Now there’s over 100,000 of them creating organic worm castings (manure) at the Fixit Farm — Home of the Maine Worming Hut ...

Your worms will keep producing castings as long as they’re happy and eating. And as your worm population grows, you’ll have more and more for your garden, your neighbors’ houseplants and so on.

Unlike nitrogen-rich fertilizers, worm castings won’t burn the plant’s roots. They can also be mixed with potting soil, in concentrations of up to 20 percent castings, to make an extra-rich ...

They produce a staggering 800 to 1,100 pounds of fertilizer every two weeks. The castings are filtered from the worms, loam and compost through a two-stage screening process.

Here are some ways to use worm castings around the home and in the garden: -- For germinating seeds mix the worm castings with sand. "Use about 20-30 percent of castings to the amount of sand.

Insects’ aversion to worm castings is demonstrated when they are spread over ant nests, causing the ants to remove themselves from the nests. If you have an issue with ants climbing up the trunks of ...