At their most basic level, worm castings are worm droppings. Worms will make their way through the soil, eating nearly ...

Vermicomposting, or worm composting, uses red wiggler worms to break down compost, food scraps and other organic materials, creating castings -- a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer that improves ...

Worms eat kitchen scraps and create worm castings, which are a valuable soil amendment and plant tonic. Though castings are often called fertilizer, they’re actually not very high in nitrogen ...

There are also beneficial nematodes, however, that prey on soil-dwelling larvae of insect pests. Worm castings owe their pest control capacity to chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down chitin ...

But they will be eating your food scraps and then happily and freely roaming around your garden, spreading castings and ...

Inside a small room at the entrance of the Cotton Mill building in Brattleboro worms are busy, quietly turning compost into ...

Synthetic fertilizers (the blue stuff, the pellets, the bags with numbers) work fast and deliver exact doses. They can be ...