While you can purchase worm castings, creating your own vermicomposting station is easier than you might expect. There are ...

We gardeners stand on our success. Literally. For bragging rights to our flowers, foliage and fruit, we start with what lies underfoot, the soil. Our goal: rich, crumbly, nutrient-packed, ...

Two of the most common earthworms found in our area are redworms and nightcrawlers. Redworms (eisenia foetida, also known as red wiggler worms) are shallow dwellers, living in the top 12 inches of the ...

Vertical gardens are an alternative for gardeners who don't have a lot of horizontal space, want to cover an unattractive wall, or just want something different. For vertical garden-building advice, ...

Gardeners generally like worms in the garden because they’re such good (and free) soil aerators and fertilizer producers. But in a dry August, worms sometimes seem to be missing in action, even in ...

HOUSTON — Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root ...

Kristel Gramlich knew there had to be a better way. Like many gardeners, she wanted to get some plants to grow up -- at least before they got eaten. "My inspiration was simple: I had to get my hostas ...

“It’s like painting with plants,” Kristel Gramlich of Plantasy said about vertical gardening. She is shown last month in Newcastle with some of her products. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...