They are highly invasive and damaging to the soil, and ecosystems in general. Here is what you need to know to identify them ...

Use natural methods like crop rotation, mulching, and physical barriers to control harmful worms in plant soil. Your garden soil is an entire ecosystem full of non-living and living components ...

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 ...

Worms eat their own weight in organic waste, soil and minerals and excrete their ... If you accidentally cut an earthworm in half while gardening, only half will die. The piece with the saddle ...

Even I had a look in my garden this morning and found a fantastic specimen ... Earthworms bring down and consume organic matter such as leaf litter and their waste (worm castings) provides the ...

Worm farms are a wonderful way to transform kitchen waste into valuable garden resources: worm castings as a soil conditioner and worm tea as liquid feed. Hannah checks over the farm once a week.

They chomp and chew the soil like underground earthworms, and ‘tunnel down’ in snaky worm-patterns, with the class forming four ‘worm-lines’ across the room. Eventually they snooze as a ...

and new understandings of soil biology are enabling smaller and healthier ways to recycle waste. In our home garden, we’ve sunk five-gallon, lidded, in-ground worm compost buckets into each of ...