FYN Principle #7: Recycle Yard Waste

An old adage says that one man's trash is another man's treasure, and you can carry this lesson into your gardening. Try giving grass clippings and dead leaves a fresh purpose by using them as mulch around your yard.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program
• Living Green: Mulch

UF/IFAS Publications

• Enviroscaping
• Florida Guide to Environmental Landscaping
• Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Program Publications
• A Guide to Environmentally Friendly Landscaping: Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Handbook
• Improving Drought Tolerance in Your Florida Lawn
• Landscape Design for Water Conservation
• Landscape Mulch: What Are the Choices in Florida?
• Mulches for the Landscape

Other Sites

• Attracting Wildlife--UGA
• Backyard Wildlife Habitat--National Wildlife Federation
• Bromeliad Society International
• Florida Landscape--Florida Gulf Coast University
• Florida Wildflowers Growers Cooperative--Wildflower Seed and Plant Growers Association
• Habitat Projects--National Wildlife Federation
• Native Plant Questions and Answers--U.S. National Arboretum
• Native Plants Database--Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
• A Snagging Issue: Tree Snags for Wildlife--National Wildlife Federation