WORMS makes the ultimate plant food. If you want the perfect food for your plants, you may want to start a worm box. Building a worm box is simple. Below is a short list of supplies that you will need, to make your worm box. 5' x 5' x 8" high

2 pieces of wood 1"x 8" x  10'

  1 small box of  3 " screws

  1 piece of carpet or wood

  ( Enough compost to fill the box to the top )

  ( 10 ) pounds of Worms.... worms eat there body weight in compost per day, so 10 pounds of worms will  eat 70 pounds of compost per week. That's about how much compost will be in your box...

   1. Cut both boards in half making four boards 5' long.

   2. making a box, put four screws into each corner to secure it together.

   3. Find an area in your yard that you can put the worm box.

   4. set box on the ground, dig out the inside of the box so it will set 3 or 4 inches into the ground.

   5. fill the base of the box with a few inches of compost, then add your worms.  Once you have added the worms, cover them with a inch or so of compost. Then lay some newspaper over the compost and repeat this layering a few times.

   6. spray some water on the compost to keep it damp.

   7. cover the worm box with your wood or carpet.

  In no time, you will have created your own organic fertilizer .

NOTE... You will need to continue to add compost to your worm box to keep the cycle going.

Cuppa Joe Fertilizer...Coffee grounds are great additives to your compost pile. But, the really great things about coffee grounds is that you don't have to have a compost pile to use them as fertilizer. You can just mix them straight into the soil where you do your planting, or you can scatter them around the plants on top of the soil. Ants are supposed to be deterred by coffee grounds, so if you're having an ant problem, you can spread them on the ground for that purpose as well. If you're not a coffee drinker, used tea leaves work just as well. Also, most coffee shops will be happy to save bags of used coffee grinds for you to take home, if you ask them.