Garden Compost Bin Sioux City 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
601 Main Street
Sioux City, IA
Zeds lawn care
712-258-7333
211 4th st
Sioux City, IA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
7441 Vine Street Court
Davenport, IA
New Lawns
(515) 233-4927
1916 Ferndale Ave
Ames, IA
Enviroone
563-557-2640
4487 Dodge Street
Dubuque, IA
Desrosiers Lawn Care
(712) 266-3733
2015 South Cleavland St.
Sioux City, IA
Iowa Lawns Inc. 2
515-291-9273
1430 Cortina Dr
Ankeny, IA
TruGreen
(888) 615-8157
301 Southwest Oralabor Rd
Ankeny, IA
Rmpka Termite, Pest, & Lawn Professionals
877-557-6752
2730 State Highway 48
Red Oak, IA
Ames Story Tree & Lawn
515-232-8153
P.O. Box 2403
Ames, IA
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Heaps and Hedges

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 .

Hail to the Heap

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.

Think in Layers

To 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 Bets

Housing, 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

  • Tips for “Green” Gardens
  • Organic Gardening: Think Local, Diversify and Design for Reuse
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