In shared garden spaces, a single infestation can affect many plots at once.

If you are looking for a natural way to grow strong plants and have healthy soil, worm castings may be the ‘black gold’ you are looking for. It is a nutrient-rich, sustainable alternative to synthetic ...

Worm castings, often referred to as "black gold" in the gardening community, are an organic gardener's secret weapon for creating healthy, vibrant plants and enriched soil. These nutrient-rich pellets ...

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 ...

An invasive earthworm that can rapidly destroy soil and plant life has now been detected in Colorado, state officials confirmed. Known as the Asian jumping worm — or “crazy worm” — the species spreads ...

Researcher Brad Herrick holds a handful of invasive jumping worms in Madison, Wisconsin. Herrick says the University of Wisconsin is beginning to study the possible impacts of the worms on agriculture ...

In a small community plot at Salem’s Sunnyside Gardens in October, Kathy Arnold crouched beside her Swiss chard last October. She turned the soil with a gardening fork until she unearthed what she was ...