Garden Patch
The DeKalb Extension Garden Patch
Low-water gardening, bats and blossom-end rot.
Every year I run into lots of plant losses or lawn damage due to drought conditions. Do you have some good suggestions to reduce these losses? Yes – look at converting your landscape to a Xeriscape or a low-water-use landscape. There are seven steps included in this conversion some of which you may already be using. Steps include: planning so you use the right plants and locating them well; reducing the size of your lawn and using the right grass for your situation; building better soils that will drain well yet retain water for plant growth; mulching wherever there is bare soil to improve water retention and to reduce soil erosion; installing an efficient watering or irrigation system that does not waste water and gets the water to where …
