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

Skip the store-bought fertilizers and start turning a few ingredients you probably already have into natural plant food. Whether you’re growing houseplants, garden plants, or a ...

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 ...

Worm casts, or worm castings, on lawns result from earthworms and are commonly seen on spring or fall mornings. While they are beneficial, they can also be a nuisance. If you take pride in your ...

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.

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.

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.