Garden Compost Bin Ankeny IA
A garden compost heap made of veggie waste from the kitchen, as well as the leaves, cuttings and branches from yard work, can be rotted down over time to provide a ready resource of soil improver. What’s more, as many as one in five truckloads of waste delivered to U.S. landfills could find a home on a compost heap instead.
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
(888) 615-8157
301 Southwest Oralabor Rd
Ankeny, IA
Ankeny, IA
The Cutting Edge Lawn Care Professionals Inc.
515-440-4000
515-440-4000
2797 99th Street
Urbandale, IA
Urbandale, IA
LynneClaire Lawn Care
(515) 988-5416
(515) 988-5416
1750 28th Street
West Des Moines, IA
West Des Moines, IA
Block Stone & Landscaping
515-462-4367
515-462-4367
601 South 7th Street
Winterset, IA
Winterset, IA
Lawn Maintenance Plus
515-953-6996
515-953-6996
7306 S.W. 17TH st.
Des Moines, IA
Des Moines, IA
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Heaps and Hedges
Hail to the HeapA garden compost heap made of veggie waste from the kitchen, as well as the leaves, cuttings and branches from yard work, can be rotted down over time to provide a ready resource of soil improver. What’s more, as many as one in five truckloads of waste delivered to U.S. landfills could find a home on a compost heap instead.Think in LayersTo attract the maximum biodiversity to your yard, you should use several layers of plants: ground covers, shrubs, larger shrubs and, of course, trees.Hedge Your BetsHousing, like all types of extended development areas, can divide areas of natural value like woodlands and grasslands. Rather than build a fence, plant a hedge to help provide a “green corridor” for animals to move through your neighborhood and between fragmented green areas. And if you don’t like your neighbors, you can always let your hedge grow tall!Suggested Reading
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Our series of tips on “green” gardens continues with three more recommendations from Carl Smith, PhD, a landscape architecture professor at the University of Arkansas School of Architecture and coauthor of the new book Residential Landscape Sustainability: A Checklist Tool .