On this week’s Good Growing podcast, we welcome Emily Swihart back to talk about water-conscious landscaping! Learn why planning our landscapes with water in mind is important and how we can incorporate water-conscious landscaping into our landscapes.
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00:30 – Welcome, Ken and Emily, and are our landscapes ready for frost?
06:30 – What is water-conscious landscaping? Is it just a fancy way of saying xeriscaping?
07:55 – Do we need to worry about saving water in Illinois?
11:15 - What are some ways we can incorporate water-conscious landscaping into our landscapes?
11:50 – Right plant, right place
22:47 – How do lawns fit in?
24:43 – Irrigation systems
31:20 – Vegetable gardens use a lot of water, how can we be water-conscious in them?
36:50 – What about harvested water?
38:32 - Now that plants are starting to lose their leaves and go dormant, do we still need to worry about watering them?
43:00 - Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
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