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Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Planning Soil Amendment Practical Turf Areas Plant Selection Irrigation Mulching Maintenance
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home Define Edges Layout and Overlap Cardboard
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home Place Layer of Compost or Manure Over Cardboard Layer Top with Organic Mulch
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Year 1 - Spring Year 1 - Summer
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Before After
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Cardboard Resources – NextDoor, SN Program, Buy Nothing Groups, Appliance or Bike Stores Compost/Manure Resources – Home Compost, Alpaca Farms Mulch Resources – City Mulch Program, Chip Drop from Tree Companies, Rent/Share a Chipper with Your Neighbors, Leaves and Pine Needles
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Install a Sidewalk Strip Bed Convert an Area that Sprinklers Can’t Reach
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Create a Corner Bed for Herbs Fill in a Scorch Strip with No Water Plants Install a Mulch Pathway
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Adjusting Alkaline Soil:
Aged sawdust
Wood chips
Leaf mold
Peat moss
Cottonseed meal
Pine needles
Coffee grounds
Fresh manure
Oak leaves
Ground up oak bark
Pine needles
Adjusting Acidic Soil:
Bonemeal
Ground clamshells
Ground eggshells
Ground oyster shells
Hardwood ashes
Fine-ground agricultural lime: dolomitic lime (if the soil test reveals a magnesium deficiency) or calcitic lime (if the soil test reveals a calcium deficiency). The general guidelines for applying limestone to increase pH by one unit across 100 square feet: 3 pounds of sandy soil; 5 pounds on sandy-loam; 7 on loam; and 8 pounds on clay soil.
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Compost Manure Fertilizer
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Plant Root Ball Hori Hori
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Signs of Water Stress Weeds, Weeds, and Weeds
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home Kendrick Lake Park – Hoyt and Jewell O’Kane Park – 1st and Pierce Belmar Park – Behind Justice Center Forsberg Park and Dog Park – Alameda/470 Medians Along Colfax and Kipling Contact: Keely Foster, City of Lakewood Greenhouse Lead KeeFos@lakewood.org 720.963.5250
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Garden in a Box
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
General Xeriscaping
https://coloradowaterwise.org/XeriscapeColorado https://www.denverwater.org/sites/default/files/2017- 05/Water_Wise_Landscape_Handbook.pdf https://www.lakewood.org/Government/Departments/Community-Resources/Parks-Forestry- and-Open-Space/Forestry-and-Horticulture/Horticulture https://northernwater.org/sf/water-efficiency
Safer er and Sustainable ble at Home
Sheet Mulching
http://lawntogarden.org/sites/default/files/HowToSheetmulch-1-26.pdf
Lakewood Wood Mulch Program
https://www.lakewood.org/Government/Departments/Community-Resources/Parks-Forestry-and- Open-Space/Forestry-and-Horticulture
Plants and Design
https://plantselect.org/design/design-gallery/ https://resourcecentral.org/gardens/ https://conps.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Low-Water-Native-Plants-for-CO-Gardens-Front- Range-Foothills.pdf