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Gardening

kentauros

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5. Collect everyone's leaves and compost them!

Reply to shanti (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 2, 2014, 11:18 PM

Apr 2014

Free soil!

Something that most people don't know is that when you take the time (as in several years) to really improve your soil, it will hold more water and help plants be more resilient to drought. Good topsoil depth for a lawn is at least 12 inches. Most lawns only have two inches, or less, and why they have to water and weed more.

I know I've posted it before, but this is another good site, if only for improving your soil, but also how that helps even normal full-cover lawn-grasses:

Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy

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Low Water Gardening [View all] shanti Apr 2014 OP

This is a good site for information (and buying seeds) kentauros Apr 2014 #1

Thanks shanti Apr 2014 #3

My sister lives in California Curmudgeoness Apr 2014 #2

Sacramento shanti Apr 2014 #4

Collect everyone's leaves and compost them! kentauros Apr 2014 #5

Adding organic material is the best way to improve soil Major Nikon Apr 2014 #6

Wait until fall to do it XemaSab Apr 2014 #7

Thanks for the tips! shanti Apr 2014 #8

Purple, blue, and white go with everything XemaSab Apr 2014 #9

Mexican sage is perennial and has beautiful purple flowers, nt stopwastingmymoney Apr 2014 #10