How To Check & Manage pH In Your Worm Bin
What is pH? pH, also known as power of Hydrogen, is a measure of the acidity of a substance. It is measured on a scale…
The Best Placement For Your Worm Composting Bin
Worm farming is an excellent way to recycle your food and garden waste, keeping pounds of garbage out of the municipal waste stream. More importantly,…
How Many Red Wigglers Do I Need To Start?
With the last decade’s surge in green living, folks are looking for more and more ways to minimize their footprint on the Earth and maintain…
Prepare Your Worm Bin For Winter In 5 Easy Steps
Worms are one of Mother Nature’s original recyclers. For millions of years they’ve been hard at work turning organic material into nutrients for the soil….
How-To: Boost Your Red Worm Reproduction Rate
Increase your red worm reproduction rate with these seven aphrodisiacs! Red worms eat lots of organic material, but these ravenous little eating machines are particularly…
How To Check & Maintain Your Worm Bin’s Temperature
We at the Squirm Firm want to help our fellow gardeners with the upkeep of your worm composting bins. We cannot stress enough the importance…
Do You Really Need to Use Compost?
You’ve set up your first garden, or you are preparing to do so, and you’re wondering if there’s anything you’re missing. The land is cleared…
Feeding Your Red Wiggler Composting Worms
Red Wiggler worms love to eat. In the right conditions, they will consume and digest 50 percent of their body weight in a 24-hour period. But…
What Are Worm Castings?
Worm castings, or worm humus, are the nutrient-rich end products of the vermicomposting process. During the process of vermicomposting, biodegradable materials are broken down with the help…
Worm Farm Composting For Kids
Taking care of your own compost system is very easy to do, so much so that even your kids can have a part in it….