Drop your scraps in the designated tube, and voila, you have a flourishing garden. If you’re a city-dweller living in a small apartment, you probably don’t compost food scraps. Even with a countertop ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that's the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An answer to the short-of-space, blank-walled, crafty creative—a vertical garden can serve many purposes ...

Keen on growing your own food? You don’t need to be a farmer or have a sprawling backyard garden to do so. The rise of vertical gardening means you can grow and harvest a whole bounty of produce even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

“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. pkitagaki@sacbee.com ...