Fertilizers--Application. Yard waste--Recycling. Organic wastes as fertilizer.
Yard trimmings are a mixture of grass clippings, leaves, woody trimmings, weeds, and soil. Most yard trimmings are beneficial to the soil as they are a good source of plant nutrients and organic matter. This publication describes the use of yard trimmings in agriculture including: nutrient content and properties of yard trimmings, estimating nitrogen availability from yard trimmings, calculating application rates, managing yard trimmings applications, permits for yard trimmings applications, and repeated applications. 8 pages.
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Title
Fertilizing with yard trimmings
Creators
Craig George Cogger (Author)
Andy I. Bary (Author)
Dan M. (Dan Matthew) Sullivan (Author)
Academic Unit
Publications, WSU Extension
Series
Farming west of the Cascades.
Publisher
Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
Identifiers
99900501050101842
Copyright
In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess