Horticulture
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Why Compost?
- Composting provides a free, top-notch soil conditioner that improves plant, garden and lawn growth.
- Compost acts like a sponge, helping soil retain moisture and nutrients.
- Compost helps break down heavy clay soils or helps to bind sandy soils.
- Soils rich in compost experience less erosion and reduced quick runoff.
- By returning nutrients back into the soil, compost reduces the need for expensive chemical fertilizers.
- Composting household materials will save landfill space. The amount of waste you send to the landfill will be reduced by 1/3 to 1/2.
- It’s easy! You don’t need any technical knowledge or equipment
- The Art and Science of Composting
- Building Soil Organic Matter with Organic Amendments
- Composting Council
- Composting Guide
Other Helpful Sites
RELATED HORTICULTURE LINKS OF INTEREST
- UW – Extension Horticultural Publications
- UW – Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest
- UW – Plant Disease and Diagnostic Clinic
- UW – Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory
- UW – The Wisconsin Gardener – Public TV
- UW – Urban Horticulture
- UW – Urban Horticulture Updates
- UWEX – Wisconsin Native Plant Sources
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Wisconsin Master Gardener Program
- Wisconsin Horticulture Calendar – Other events of interest
- University of Connecticut Plant Database
- USDA Plants Database
- Weed Science Society of America
- Wisconsin Phenological Society
If you have a horticulture related question, please contact the Oneida County UW-Extension at 715-365-2750 or by email kerri.ison@ces.uwex.edu
