Welcome to Cheetah's Gardening Bits and Pieces Area Bits and Pieces Recycling - Compost Building Info - Aquiring Natural Mulch I live and Garden in Vanderburgh County in Indiana, but you will find that a lot of the following can be used by people living anywhere. Learn more about Composting and Yard Recycling call Vanderburgh County Solid Waste Management District at (812 4265601) for the Booklet Composting Is Nature's Recycling System free to Vanderburh County Resident's. Also available is Yard Recycling: A Homeowner's Guide from the Vanderburgh County Solid Waste Management District Office or call the County Extention office at (4355287) for more info. You can get your soil tested. The charge is $7.50. Contact the Farm Bur. At Phone # 4236481 for more details. Those discarded wooden pallets you see around the back of business's make great compost bins, just lash them together, and most business's will give them to you for free just to get rid of them. Shredded leaves makes great mulch under bushes. Some of the Tree Trimming Business's will give you Free wood chips, these make good mulch and can be added to compost piles also. Many local Stables offer all the horse manure you could use in your compost piles for little or no charge. All you need is a shovel and a pickup. Call them for info. If you have a Aquarium the water you remove, (you know that 10% water change you should do every once in a while) makes great fertilizer for your houseplants. Gardening Home How to plant a special garden This is a humous/sarcastic list of some Battles I've had in my garden (or maybe the definition of INVASIVE). Plant's to grow old with. Gardening info, Seed Swapping, and Seed-Plant Links E mail