Let writer and gardener Jeff Hutton show you and your kids how to grow yourown food and your favorite flowers, attract butterflies, create crafts, and more.Teach your children how to start garden seeds indoors as well as how to preparesoil, pla...
Eisenia fetida are used in different ways to clean up waste. A small scale system may be used to clean up leftovers, kitchen scraps, fruit and vegetable peels, plate scrapings, pizza crust, and those things you find in the refrigerator when you clean it. ...
Not all that glitters is gold, and not all that's green is good to grow in your garden. Monkshood, also known as wolfsbane (Aconitum spp.) is a stunning genus of plants, but because of the severity of its poison, most people should avoid growing it in their yards and gardens. It is...
It soaks up 5 times its weight in water, and makes an excellent addition to worm compost bins, seed starting mixes, container vegetable potting mixes, and sandy soils.I always keep a couple of coir bricks around as part of a worm bin fix-it kit. I don’t use it in every tray I ...
Composting Worms Composting with worms is a sustainable and easy way to reduce organic waste and produce high-quality compost. These voracious eaters consume fruit and vegetable scraps, cardboard, shredded paper, and other organic waste that would otherwise be thrown away. Composting worms reproduce ...
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If you have particularly poor soil in your garden, planting deciduous trees and hedges will encourage worms to dig fallen leaves down into the soil in the fall and winter. This helps to open up soil structures and add nutrients deeper into the ground. ...
Protect Your Garden from Cabbage Worms! Vegetable Seedling Identification: Pictures and Descriptions How We Keep Pests Out of the Garden (Naturally!) Identification How to Identify Cabbage Worms Cabbage worms are velvety green larvae. They have a few faint yellow stripes. They are not to be confus...
Worms can turn yourfruit and vegetable scrapsinto a good soil improvement mix for your garden. You can easily become a worm rancher and grow your own worm compost. All you need is: garbage newspapers worms and a box. Where to Get Worms ...