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Worm castings are great for feeding house plants, adding to seedling mixes and potting soils or top-dressing around plants. Worms like to eat food wastes such as vegetables and fruit peelings, pulp from the juicer, tea bags, crushed egg shells and bread. They also like small amounts of soiled paper and cardboard (such as shredded egg cartons). One of the great things about worm composting is that you don’t need a large garden. Worms can be kept outside, inside, on the balcony or in the garage and are especially ideal for units. In this video, Ellen Telander – Executive Director of the Recycling Association of Minnesota, explains the basics of worm composting. This is a nice introduction to worm farming from an organization dedicated...

As a keen organic gardener, I try to emphasise the importance of basic recycling. The obvious example where everyone can succeed is the recycling of organic materials into compost heaps. But what about the endless amounts of paper, wood, metal, glass, and plastic which pass through our lives every day of the year? Well some of these can be recycled as an industrial proposition. Most neighbourhoods have good schemes for collecting our unwanted glass, paper, and plastics. Next time you visit one of your gardening friends; ask them if they can recycle any of these materials by using them directly in their garden. Here are a few ideas which have been gathered around the traps. Cardboard egg cartons make excellent trays for establishing seedlings....