Are you longing to get your hands in the dirt? I have found something new to bide my time until spring — making my own worm bin. Unlike a new puppy, worms are quiet, friendly and will not make messes ...

If your garden could ask, it would have only one thing on its holiday wish list: a worm bin. Experienced gardeners know that abundant harvests are fed by the health, makeup and diversity of their soil ...

Q: I live in an apartment and would like to compost using worms. Can you tell me more about how to get started? A: Composting using worms is called vermicomposting. This type of composting uses worms ...

When you were young, you either thought that worms were gross or cool. Eventually, as you got older, you began to learn about the importance of worms, and I’m not talking about fishing. I’m talking ...

Biologist Shamali Sandiford raked her fingers through a layer of damp, rich compost and smiled in satisfaction at the tiny wriggling worms that revealed themselves just inches below the surface.

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 ...

CORVALLIS — Although compost worm bins and their “red wiggly” worms are known for their ability to turn worm castings into rich compost, in the process they also recycle food waste otherwise destined ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

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, ...