I never know what to do with dog poo that appears with great regularity on my lawn. When I was a teenager I was honoured with the chore of picking up dog poo and back then it was a simple matter of using a spade to scoop it into the flower beds – out of sight, out of mind.

You can’t just shovel it into your regular garden compost heap either – that stuff is toxic. And putting it into a plastic bag and throwing it out with the rest of the rubbish just doesn’t seem environmentally sound.

So along comes a guy who hands me a flyer for his website: http://www.earthbuddies.co.za. The flyer introduces me to a great concept: use worms to turn dog poo into fertilizer that’s great for your garden.

Earthworms are also great for recycling kitchen waste into fertilizer, since earthworms will eat just about any kind of organic material and their casts are regarded as manna from heaven for your soil.

Also known as vermiculture, earthworm farming is nothing new – but of late it’s definitely starting to take off in South Africa.

Earthworm bins come in all shapes and sizes – if you want a great source of fertilizer, get your hands on a domestic worm farm at your local nursery or search online for a supplier like Earth Buddies.

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