TYLER, TX (KETK) - — If you're planning on having a strong garden or flower bed this season, you may want to start in the kitchen.

Because that decaying garbage in your trash can could do you more use, decaying in your backyard.

Which is why "Keep Tyler Beautiful" is selling compost bins to the public.

Now you are going to want to keep you compost moving, and some of your best helpers could already be in your yard, worms are great way to keep that compost ready for cultivation.

And most area Greenthumbs are fighting the sandy soils in East Texas, and homemade compost could be their best weapon.