Make cleanup easier and put fallen sticks in your yard to good use with these simple ideas.
This makes garden maintenance easier, and prevents sticks from piling up and smothering your plants and grass.
However, brush piles can get messy if you heap the sticks haphazardly.
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Dont forget to save a stick or two for roasting marshmallows.
Remember to add some nitrogen-rich items, like kitchen scraps, to your composter at the same time.
Too much carbon in a compost pile slows down the composting process.
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Biochar is a charcoal-like soil additivemade by burning organic matter in a low-oxygen environment.
Best of all, you might make biochar at home with the sticks and twigs you have lying around.
Start a hugelkultur garden.
Craft a bee hotel.
Bonus points if you use sticks with hollow centers!
Invest in a mulcher.
Fill in raised beds.
Filling a raised garden bedto the top with soil can get expensive fast.
Protect your pet by knowing which plants produced the sticks youre saving for your pup.
Sticks from yew plants, for example, can be toxic to dogs.
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Make a DIY wattle fence.
Wattle fencesare usually made by weaving sticks and twigs together to create a simple fence with rustic charm.
To make your snagattractive to hummingbirds, place it near a feeder and close to a sheltering tree.
Build a bug snug.
Weave a dead hedge.
Support tomatoes and beans.
Sink strong sticks into the soil beside vegetable plants and small trees to support wobbly stems and trunks.
Smaller sticks also make handy supports for floppy houseplants.
Experiment with other crafts.
Sticks and twigs have so many uses, we cant hope to cover them all in this quick guide.
