Garden Compost Bin Spanish Fork UT
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.
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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 .
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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Garden Design Spanish Fork UT
If your garden design requires every plant to survive exactly where it was planted and never grow beyond a certain size—and if it’s easily ruined by opportunistic invaders (weeds)—you’ll have to spend lots of time and energy in the garden. Carefully choose plants to match your soil, weather conditions and their location.
