Maintaining Your New California Garden: Overview

If
you’re new to sustainable gardening, you probably have only a vague idea of how to design,
install and maintain a new garden.  That’s why the New California Garden  series was developed.  We walk you through the steps, give you
helpful tips and suggest  resources for creating and maintaining a ‘California-friendly’
garden.

If you’re just joining the series, we suggest you start
with   ‘Designing Your New California Garden’
(July 2013 - http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2013/07/designing-your-new-california-garden-1.html)
and work forward.  The monthly activities
will help you design an attractive and functional
garden.

In ‘Maintaining Your New California Garden’, we focus on the
nitty-gritty aspects of installation and maintenance.  The series  includes posts on soil amendments, planting,
mulches, watering, pruning and much, much more. 
We hope this series will make it easier to maintain your water-wise,
life-friendly sustainable garden. 

 

Topic	Link
Seasonal changes	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2014/09/seasons-in-southern-california-garden.html
Timeline for garden installation
Installing (planting) the plants
Mulches and mulching	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2012/07/understanding-mulches_23.html
Watering: winter & spring	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2012/03/watering-native-plants-in-winter.html
Watering: summer & fall	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2015/07/surviving-drought.html
Fertilizers and plant nutrition
Amending soil	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2012/11/getting-to-know-your-gardens-soil-soil.html
Pruning: basics
Pruning: how to prune common CA native plants	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2012/11/pruning-common-native-plants.html
Pruning: life-friendly fall pruning	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2014/11/maintaining-your-new-california-garden_15.html
Pruning: life-friendly summer pruning
Pruning: When to prune common CA native plants
Pruning: summer
Frost damage	http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2013/02/frost-damage-dont-prune-yet.html
Coping with weeds
Managing pests

 

 

 

We
value your comments (below).    You can
also contact us directly at mothernaturesbackyard10@gmail.com.