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Free & Easy Ways To Be Green In Your Flower Or Vegetable Garden
By Sue Doenim
Recycle, recycle and recycle is the name of the game for being green in your flower garden or vegetable garden.
Free & easy ways to be green in your garden is to catch and recycle rain water and the water that you normally let run down the drain while you're waiting for the hot water to come through the faucet. You don't have to spend money on a rain catching cistern, just place a few buckets under the drip line of your roof or at your gutter's downspouts and catch the excess rainwater runoff and use the free water on your flowers or vegetable garden between rains. Keep a pitcher handy near your sink to catch the cold water while you are waiting for the hot water to come through the faucet. Free water for you houseplants, pet's water bowl or any other chore you need a little cool water for. Anytime you catch and recycle water that is normally wasted saves money and helps the environment. Flower and vegetable gardens are great places for being green through recycling. All old plant matter can be composted and used to improve the garden soil next year.
Flowers and vegetable plants that need trellises is another creative, decorative and free way to be green in the garden. Tomatoes need cages? Why not go to the lumber yard and pick up some free scrap wooden poles or stakes and use instead? Save used nylon panty hose to cut into strips to secure the tomato plants to the wooden stakes for support. Old metal bed frames and iron headboards that have seen better days can be recycled and often picked up for free and used as trellises for various garden plants like cucumbers or beans. Anything long and sturdy that's metal or wood can be recycled in the flower or vegetable garden as plant supports. Leftover building supplies like roof shingles, carpet scraps or tar paper can be recycled in the garden as mulch to help retain garden soil moisture and keep the weeds from growing. Even your daily newspaper can be used as garden mulch after your through reading it.
Looking at objects from a recycling perspective can help you improve your garden's performance and appearance for free. It will also help the environment by keeping things out of our landfills, and you can do it all free and easy.
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