Garden Compost Bin Ellijay GA
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.
Cut & Style Lawn Service
706-455-2647
706-455-2647
3220 Smyrna Ramhurst Road
Chatsworth, GA
Chatsworth, GA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
(888) 615-8157
3630 Swiftwater Park Drive
Suwanee, GA
Suwanee, GA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
(888) 615-8157
535 Industrial Way
Cumming, GA
Cumming, GA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
(888) 615-8157
521 Edsel Drive
Richmond Hill, GA
Richmond Hill, GA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
(888) 615-8157
15 North Drive S.e.
Acworth, GA
Acworth, GA
Bailey Construction & Landscape Group, Inc.
770-972-1112
770-972-1112
3585 Lenora Church Rd
Snellville, GA
Snellville, GA
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 .