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Composting provides these benefits for your gardening business:
• reduced purchase costs for compost or topsoil
• fewer trips (and less time and fuel spent) hauling waste to the dump
• savings in disposal costs and tipping fees
• reduced fertilizer and water use for plants and lawns
• healthier landscapes and fewer pests and disease problems

Compost benefits soil in several ways, by:
• improving soil structure
• reducing soil erosion and compaction
• breaking up clay soil and enriching sandy soil
• helping form soil aggregates
• increasing earthworm and microbial population
• increasing soil aeration
• improving soil structure
• decreasing thatch
• tying up heavy metals
• providing slow release of macronutrients
• increasing nutrient availability
• adding micronutrients
• increasing cation-exchange capacity
• reducing leaching
• improving drought tolerance
• helping suppress plant diseases
• making plants healthier in general

For more information, see:
• soil health & compost
• compost science
• seasonal guide to a healthy lawn (naturally)

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