I want to start a low/no maintenance garden/landscape that is mostly edible foods and some flowers. what do you suggest?
I've checkout "Plants of the East Bay Parks" and "Water-Conserving Plants and Landscapes for the Bay Area" from the local library but not many "edible" (or if they are they don't mention it) listed.
Also where is a good place near Brookfield (98th/Hegenberger) neighborhood to buy seeds and/or seedlings?
I've checkout "Plants of the East Bay Parks" and "Water-Conserving Plants and Landscapes for the Bay Area" from the local library but not many "edible" (or if they are they don't mention it) listed.
Also where is a good place near Brookfield (98th/Hegenberger) neighborhood to buy seeds and/or seedlings?
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Re: landscaping and gardening
Sat, September 9, 2006 - 11:02 AMI'm prolly going to do the same thing for next spring. My front yard is pretty tired with it's 3 year old look.
I'm still going for the no grass look, and will increase the mulch from 1" to 3" to increase weed resistance.
I've always liked the heritage/heirloom lettuces and greens like rainbow chard and kale instead of just non edible plants like ferns. Easy to take care of, hardy in the winter, doesn't require too much water, it cleans the soil, it feeds you, and whatever you don't use you can just turn back into the soil at theend of it's life.
I've found EBMUD to be a great resource to help on this.
www.ebmud.com/conserving_.../default.htm
www.ebmud.com/conserving_.../default.htm
Bay Friendly gardens is another group affiliated with Stopwaste.org:
www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp
They will send out a 'green' advisor to discuss what you have, what you can do, and will check in with you to see your progress:
The ecology ctr in berkeley on san pablo is a good resource. The grand lake and berkeley farmers markets have info booths on organic gardening and landscaping.
