Prepping and Planting

Installing your landscape

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Regardless of your scope or space, it’s important to take the time to get to know your area and prepare it for planting. If you’re removing a lawn, the process doesn’t have to be intimidating! Follow the steps in the infographic below.

CNPS Infographic Drought

Learn how

White sage (Salvia apiana); Image: Water Use Classification of Landscape Species (WUCOLS) team

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Get to know the climate, sun, soil, and water of your planting site.

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Remove Your Lawn

Solarization? Rototill? Sod cutter? We’ve got the pros and cons for each.

Cardboard layer over mount. Reprinted with permission from Stop Waste. David Fenton.
Cardboard layer over mount. Reprinted with permission from Stop Waste. David Fenton.

Sheet Mulching

It’s free, and with some labor and time, nature will do the work .

Credit Adobe.
Image: Adobe

Soil 101

Is your soil sandy or clay or loam? Learn how you can find out.

Mulch and monkey flower. Credit Jim Wadsworth.
Mulch and monkey flower; Image: Jim Wadsworth

Mulching Basics

An introduction to mulch–the different kinds, when to use it, and where.

Yerba Buena. Credit Bob Hall.
Yerba Buena; Image: Bob Hall

Firescaping 101

Explore how native plants work in fire-resistant landscapes.