Use Your Garden To Recycle Just About Everything
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March/April 1973
By Jack Roland Coggins
GARDEN STAKES
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When you think of all the gardeners who carefully save their yard-cleaning trash for mulch, it's surprising to find how many burn or haul off the useful by-products of tree-pruning. Instead of throwing away the branchy ends of limbs, why not save them to set upright beside rows of peas as an effective and natural-looking support for the vines? Any long sticks you can salvage are useful, too, for staking up tomato plants and pole beans. Remember, you've got to save items like this when they come to hand, so you'll have enough later when you need them.
SAVE AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT
I hope I've convinced you by now that a little ingenuity in the use of waste materials will help you save many dollars each year and improve your gardening results at the same time. You're not the only person who'll benefit from your salvaging efforts, however . . . you'll also be lightening the junkman's load (and Mother Earth's, too). As long as we live in a society that's burdened with the problem of handling endless tons of unwanted wealth, we all need to take a closer look at any article we're about to throw away.
Of course, there are endless ways for any imaginative person to reuse items that are usually considered worthless. I believe, however, that gardening is hard to beat as a hobby for people who frown on pollution . . . for what other equally rewarding activity offers so many chances to convert trash into tools?
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