Home gardeners and commercial agricultural enterprises are increasingly integrating more natural and sustainable practices into plant production. Although chemical pesticides and fertilizers can ...

Earthworms have long been associated with healthy, productive soils. In his 1881 book entitled. "The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms," the great biologist Charles Darwin ...

We talked to a horticulturalist about how to attract earthworms and keep them happy. Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a ...

Excessive earthworm casts are a worldwide problem on golf courses and sport fields when they disrupt the playability, aesthetics, and maintenance of playing surfaces (3, 6, 11). Casting occurs when ...

Here's a promising get-rich-quick scheme for gardeners: It's called vermiculture, or worm composting, and along with super-sizing crop yields, it cuts water bills, conditions soils and repels ...

For many years, farmers and gardeners prioritized the chemical and physical properties of soils in which plants were grown over the biological properties of these soils. Thankfully, we have learned ...

Earthworms living in the soil come to the surface to deposit their castings (excrement). They are especially likely to come to the surface when the weather is rainy. (Photo courtesy of John and Debbie ...

"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures." Charles Darwin made that ...

The right earthworms can make home septic systems work better. The wrong ones could do the opposite. That's the finding in a study of worm populations living in the soil near trenches receiving septic ...

Early November found me digging my dahlias for winter storage. Finding handfuls of earthworms in the moist soil clinging to the tubers made me realize that I wasn’t the only one working in the garden ...

Some local gardeners are starting to notice is an invasive worm species lurking in our soil. The Asian jumping worm (Amynthas spp.) also goes by Asian worm, snake worm, crazy worm, or Alabama jumper.