A wormery is a unit designed to recycle your kitchen scraps. These stand-alone units are home to worms who eat through your kitchen scraps and eventually convert them into compost that you can use in your garden. The liquid runoff from your kitchen waste, especially vegetable scraps can be diluted and used as a fertiliser as well. You don’t have to order expensive kits online although it is still worth considering. You can make a…
One of the best ways to recycle your used kitchen waste is through a wormery. But what is a wormery? It is a purpose-built container in which a specific type of worm (brandling worms) lives. These worms consume your fruit and vegetable waste from the kitchen and then leave in their wake worm compost that is incredibly nutritious and perfect for your soil. Wormeries also create nutritious liquid fertilisers. Consider that your vegetable waste is…
As the season changes and your existing summer bedding plants die off, your search begins for the best winter plants to refill your summer hanging baskets with plants that will keep going throughout winter. There are very few that will make it through the winter, so you won’t have as many options as you did for your spring and summer baskets, but there are still some great basket plants that will weather winter, with the…
