Don't put those trimmed brush and dried leaves at the curb. You can repurpose them in your yard to make it a healthier place.
- If you have clipping debris or dead leaves cluttering your yard, those items can still be of use in the garden.
- Dry them out, either during a sunny stretch of weather in your back yard or in rainy weather, in your garage or garden shed.
- Then grab a shovel and employ the technique Patrick Murphy, host of GLT's Grow calls back digging or double digging.
- Penetrate the soil with a shovel, like you're going to lift the shovel full of soil from the ground. Then, actually don't do that. Just leave the soil. You've just opened the ground up.
- Then take that dried debris and put in on the soil. After a bit, go over it with a rake.The debris will work into the crevices and add organic matter to your soil -- no fuss, no muss. Well, a little fuss and muss. But no running to the garden center to spend your hard earned cash on organic material to feed your soil! Cool beans!
And if you have dried switches or small branches, you can collect them, then weave them in and out of gardening stakes place in a line along the soil and weave yourself a rustic and unique screen. That's a wattle! WGLT depends on financial support from users to bring you stories and interviews like this one. As someone who values experienced, knowledgeable, and award-winning journalists covering meaningful stories in central Illinois, please consider making a contribution.
