Practical Tips for Conserving Water in the Landscape

Reducing outdoor water use on a residential scale is absolutely necessary during times of drought but is really something that we need to do consistently in the Mediterranean climate we live in here in California. Here are a few more tips to add to the article 'Save our water! Tips for conserving water outdoors' in the Chico News and Review January 30, 2014 issue:

1. Reduce/remove your lawn by sheet mulching
2. Plant perennials instead of annuals
3. Boost the soil food web living in your soil
4. Install a clothes washer greywater system
5. Harvest rainwater

MULCH-ON-SITE

During leaf season instead of raking up leaves, bagging them, and/or taking them out to the curb or worse burning them try Mulching-on-Site!  Let annual leaf drop stay in the landscape in a beautiful way to promote healthy and seasonally replenished soils!

• Resource efficient
• Air pollution reduced
• Replenishes soils
• Reduced in/outflows
• Conserves forest products
• Less volume to City/County programs