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Epic Gardening with Kevin Espiritu
1. Living with purpose through landscapes
- What we do matters
- Our time is valuable
- How to focus on the right priorities
- Define priorities
- Consider your legacy
- Community building
- Family
- Healthy food movements
- Structure our time
- Prioritize what matters
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- Begin day with reminder
- Reduce non-priorities and wasted time
- TV, lawn mowing, weeds, dishes
- Spend more effort to enjoy what you value
- Family, friends, gardening, meditation, outreach
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2. Avoiding landscaping mistakes
- How to find mistakes
- What takes extra work
- What causes problems
- What looks ugly or feels unnecessary
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- diseased plants, foundation problems, routine trimming
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- Fixing and avoiding mistakes
- Plan first, plant last
- Plan for maturity of plants
- consider long term maintenance needs
- Account for plant needs – sun, soil, etc
- Account for utilities and existing structures
- Avoid solo plantings and impulse buys
3. Time saving hacks for your yard
- Suppress weeds before problematic
- plant tightly
- mulch heavily
- build healthy soil
- Compost
- Select low maintenance plants
- Lawn tips
- mow higher
- mow less often
- avoid synthetic amendments
4. Selecting low maintenance plants
- Your space defines the plants you select
- Start with your physical characteristics
- USDA zone
- soil type
- fertility
- pH
- Consider your local and immediate climate
- Select a plant for the space rather than change the space for the plant
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- moisture
- sun exposure
- slope
- Use online resources to find appropriate plants
- Select plants that fit desired aesthetics
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- Filter for your physical characteristics
- Favorite general plant
- Juniper – Juniperus virginiana, communis
- grows across many climates
- many aesthetic cultivars
- Juniper – Juniperus virginiana, communis
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