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Recycling garden waste hits the headlines! (Photo by J.Gates)
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One landscape company recently made top landscaping news headlines with their recycling activities of grinding up all the waste products they clear from building and renovation sites to mulch the newly installed landscape. It saves enormously on haul-away and trash yard fees while creating an excellent mulch for the new gardens. The mulch in the gardens, in turn, reduces watering, protects roots and prevents erosion. Well, commercial companies aren’t the only ones who can benefit from this kind of thinking. Any gardener can do the same thing. Recycling garden waste is smart, easy and saves money as well as benefiting the garden and the ecology on the whole! Here are some ways to recycle garden waste.
Chop it up! Use a mulching lawn mower or a chipper shredder to reduce everything from lawn waste to small branches into useful garden mulch. There are small, easy-to-use, household size shredders like the one in this picture that will chop up sticks and leaves.
Build your own compost heap or buy one of the many models for sale and throw in all the clippings and dead leaves from the yard that would otherwise have to be carefully piled into a receptacle and expensively hauled away.
Dig it in! Smaller materials and even kitchen vegetable and fruit waste – including coffee grounds can be dug directly into the soil to breakdown naturally into compost.
Install a dog waste compost bin. Add your pet waste easily whenever you clean up your yard and throw in a little of the enzyme digester mixed with water, and presto! No smell or disgusting haul-away. Check pet stores, pet catalogs and online for these.
Re-use the big stuff. Tree branches make interesting railings, posts, poles for decorative climbing flowers and vegetables and more. Big tree trunks can be chopped into chunks ideal for rustic stools, table supports or sliced into rounds for wooden stepping stones.
Use your imagination and recycle that garden waste into useful material. If you think of something clever enough, you may make the headlines, too!
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