Many years ago I created the best organic vegetable garden in Chicago in my very small backyard.

For my Chicago organic vegetable garden I rented a rototiller. "Rototiller: a motor-driven machine with rotating blades for breaking up or tilling the soil."

Then I bought some composted cow manure. "An organic soil amendment for vegetable gardens, flower beds, lawns and landscapes. Add it to the soil to promote healthy plant growth."

Then I dug canals for between rows of plants. "Canal: to convey water for irrigation." Every morning I would let my hose water the canals. Every night I would use my hose to water the top of the plants.

Then I bought some large earthworms but instead of using them as fishing bait I put them in the center of my garden then covered them with a little bit of soil so the birds would not eat them. For my worms this was heaven. I was their savior.

Thanks to those worms my tomato plants grew to be higher than me and I'm almost 6 feet tall (1.8 meters). I bought stakes for my tomato plants but later I realized they were not tall enough so I had to buy larger stakes.

At the end of the season I had enough organically grown tomatoes for the entire neighborhood. My garden had numerous other vegetables but mostly it was tomatoes.

To speed things up instead of buying seeds I bought transplants. "Transplants are essentially baby vegetable plants, usually sold in pots or 'packs' of 4 or 6."

One nice thing about organic vegetable gardens is the plants are very healthy. Insects are not interested in healthy plants and they were never a problem.

One night I was in my garden and I saw two earthworms making love. How many people have seen that?

This BBC YouTube video has everything you always wanted to know about earthworms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/springwatch Emma Sherlock, the curator of free-living worms at the Natural History Museum London, introduces us to the recyclers of the planet, the earthworms, and explains why they're important.