Recycling in the Yard

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Your yard and garden present numerous opportunities for creative and pennywise recycling.

• Reuse yard waste. Start a stick pile to use as kindling for your or your neighbor’s fireplace. Use scrubbed rocks as paperweights. Fallen leaves or flower petals make quick table decorations or when dried, mounted and framed, simple but beautiful artwork.
• Keep your compost working on yard and kitchen waste and shredded newspaper.
• Turn household castaways into garden pluses. Scrap lumber if it has not been pressure-treated, can be turned into stakes, window boxes or planters. Pantyhose, cut into strips make excellent plant ties. A leaky or cracked garbage can might be perfect for storing potting soil. An unsafe, weathered wooden ladder might make a charming trellis for a climbing rose.
• Giveaway. If you can’t use or reuse something, find it a new home. Greenhouses usually accept small plastic pots back and will often buy larger ones. Send the food smoker you got as a gift but never fired up to a friend or thrift shop. Give the cultivator you don’t really like and used just once to someone who would appreciate it.

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