My DIY Landscaping Mistakes – Show Notes

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• Today’s Plant: American Beautyberry, more on Beautyberry
• All about healthy soil
• How to design your yard like a pro
• Front yard vegetables
• Living with neighbors

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My DIY landscaping mistakes

• No Soil testing
  • Soil tests help you understand your… soil
  • Important factors
    • Ph, organic matter, macronutrients
  • Episode 11 – Soil and why it matters
• No Survey
  • Important to understand for projects
  • Resolves potential neighbor issues
• Oversized vegetable garden
  • Can be tough to find time to manage
  • A lot can be done in a small space
  • Episode 31 – Front yard vegetables
• Buying clearance plants
  • Random plants
  • Unplanned locations for planting
  • Can be damaged or diseased
• Planting without design
  • End up with hodgepodge plantings
  • Maintenance issues
  • Episode 43 – How to design your yard like a pro
• Demolition without replacement plan
  • Leads to extra work
  • Maintenance issues
• Assuming things won’t change around us
  • Can lead to unnecessary disappointment
  • We can only influence our own property
  • Episode 15 – Living with neighbors

Today’s favorite plant

American Beautyberry

• Callicarpa americana
• USDA Zone 6-10
• 3-6ft tall by 3-6ft wide
• Prefers moist soils, sand or clay
• Bright lavender pink berries in late fall through winter
• Berries on new growth
• Variety: Lactea – white berries

Variety: Welch’s pink – pink berries