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Gardening experts offer tips and tricks for a lush, eco-friendly garden in our waterwise gardeners' roundtable.
Carol Pope: For gardeners just starting a garden this spring, this is an important question:
Paul J. Tukey: Make sure you start with as much topsoil as possible, with 50 percent compost worked into the soil. You should also mulch any new plantings with the organic matter of your choice. Use drought-tolerant plants whenever possible and you’ll find that, most often, native plants will be more tolerant.
Lush lawn, waterwise lawn?
Reform a guzzler garden
Waterwise quick fixes
Recycling garden waste
Eco-friendly lawns
A healthy-looking lawn
Herbicides and pesticides
Growing food on less water
Eco-friendly ponds
Nan Sterman: Three things to start: