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CRLA: You Can Do It! Design a New Landscape Without Starting Over – Valley Water
What you'll learn
Though we often think that a successful landscape requires the removal of everything and working from a blank slate. That is a myth. You can have a thriving, beautiful garden by maximizing opportunities that already exist and discovering what easy steps you can take to create the garden you imagine. Topics include:
1. Tactics for gradually converting conventional landscapes and getting started
2. Special considerations for designing small spaces, shade, and slopes
3. Develop a flexible palette of local climate-appropriate plants
4. Place plants according to microclimates, hydrozones, and function
5. Ideas for repurposing and reusing materials to rejuvenate your landscape
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CRLA: Healthy Soils and Edible Gardens – Valley Water
What you'll learn
This workshop dives into the importance of soil health and how to create a successful edible garden. Some topics covered include:
1. The ‘soil party’ and the relationship between plants and soil
2. Different types of compost and how to create them yourself
3. Soil testing and alternative soil amendments
4. Integrate edibles in your landscaping
5. Successfully irrigate edible landscapes (in places that need it)
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CRLA: Select Climate Ready Plants Like a Pro – Valley Water
What you'll learn
Choosing the plants for our landscape is not just about the color of the flowers or the butterflies it will attract. It is also about understanding how to select plants that will naturally thrive in a garden’s unique conditions. Topics include:
1. Understand how plants adapt to their climates through the help of the soil microbiome
2. Begin to see plants as part of a greater ecosystem, filled with diversity and delight
3. Select the trees that become the cornerstone to your resilient landscape
4. Appreciate the benefits (and challenges) of working with local native plants
5. Start inviting native beneficial insects, birds, and other fauna through diverse plant selection
6. Develop your inner “green thumb,” no previous experience required
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Landscape Transformation on a Budget – California American Water
What you'll learn
Understand the key elements of a garden
Determine which elements to prioritize on a limited budget
Evaluate if involving a professional is right for you
How to get creative with materials and techniques
Come up with a framework for planning your garden transformations
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Drip Irrigation Fundamentals _ Monterey
What you'll learn
Understanding Soil Moisture Balance
Key components of a properly installed drip system
Typical problems with drip and how to avoid them
Schedule your irrigation timer to work with the drip system
Developing a successful maintenance practice
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Wild Wonderful World of Succulents – California American Water
What you'll learn
1. Where and how to use succulents in the landscape
2. Soil and watering requirements
3. Propagating / dividing succulents
4. Care and maintenance
Free
Remove Turf, Get a Meadow – Monterey
What you'll learn
1. Understand the importance of polycultures and diversity
2. Select a blend of groundcovers for greater resiliency and soil health
3. Accomplish the transition in this step-by-step process
4. Identify opportunities for rainwater capture
5. Manage limited irrigation
Free
Intermediate
SoCal Gas Pro Series – How to Build a Living Soil Sponge: From Soil Testing to Phytoremediation
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SoCal Gas Pro Series – How to Build a Living Soil Sponge: From Soil Testing to Phytoremediation
What you'll learn
• Why the Soil Food Web matters
• Soil testing (compare how and why each test is used and the type of results)
• Using compost and other soil amendments (especially determining quality)
• Soil building through the Decomposition Pathway (including sheet composting)
• Soil building through the Liquid Carbon (living root) Pathway
• Current practices in using plants to improve soil and remove toxins (phytoremediation)
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No Flat Yards – Rainwater Capture + Cisterns – California American Water
What you'll learn
1. Review criteria and considerations in selecting a rainwater capture method
2. Swales and Berms (calculations, setbacks, installation)
3. Cisterns
4. Integrating Hardscape
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You Can Design Your Own Garden – Monterey
What you'll learn
1. Sizing and siting the rainwater capture area
2. Developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants
3. Applying key design principles
4. Laying out a successful planting plan
