Your garden can benefit from the excretory droppings of bats, known as guano, which helps enrich your soil by providing carbon and energy to support helpful microbes. These microbes play a key role in ...

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 ...

JOSH BYRNE: Anyone who knows me understands I'm a mad keen recycler. And one of the first things I started when I set up this garden was this worm farm, because they do an amazing job in a small space ...

JANE EDMANSON: These are composting worms. Rather than digging deep into the soil like earthworms, in nature, composting worms make their home in leaf litter on top of the soil or just below the ...

My son Liam has acquired a green thumb and has put in several raised beds, to boot. Now he wants to fill them. My first call went to Sanctuary Soil and Feed (877-751-3935; sanctuarysoil.com). Though ...