Mulch the garden to save water

November 22, 2007 on 5:31 pm | In gardening | 5 Comments

Have you mulched your garden recently? Mulching your garden with your own compost or with mulch purchased from your local nursery or garden supplier helps prevent evaporation and improves the quality of your soil.

There are three kinds of mulch that can can be used effectively on the garden to save water:

Coarse Mulch - such as pebbles, bark, gravel and recycled bricks.

Medium Mulch - wood chips and wood chips

Fine Mulch - saw dust, straw, cow manure and compost.

For more details, check out Save Water - Mulch and compost.

Drought Tolerant Plant list

October 21, 2007 on 2:41 pm | In gardening | 1 Comment

Gardening Australia has a great fact sheet on drought tolerant plants for the Australian garden environment.  Some of the plants they recommend include:

• A wattle Acacia cognata.
• A native grass called Lomandra ‘Seascape’.
• Coastal Rosemary, Westringia fruticosa.
• Dwarf Sacred Japanese Bamboo
• Pelargonium peltatum, the ivy leafed pelargonium.

For the full fact sheet, see Gardening Australia’s - Drought Tolerant Plants.