Lisa's Landscape & Design

Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time

Tag Archives: Compost

Extreme Heat and a Depressed Landscape

Heat stressed lawn

I keep thinking about the influx of people who’ve recently moved into my area over the last several years and what an awful surprise it must be to spend a real summer in Austin Texas. Not only is there oppressive, extreme heat and humidity for us, (exacerbated by concrete) but it’s down right depressing to …

Continue reading

“Everybody Needs a Piece of The Lisa!”

Step by step instructions to a successful landscape.

Continue reading

Compost Each Spring, The Planet Digs It!

One of the most important and intriguing classes I’ve ever taken in my landscape education, was about the soil. It is the foundation and the environmental anchor of the landscape. If your soil isn’t healthy, your garden will suffer.   Much like our own bodies, we will only get out of it, what we put …

Continue reading

Should I Leave My Leaves In The Landscape?

To leave or not to leave, that is the question and the answer is yes, and no. Timing, type of leave, depth of beds and so and health of the plants dictate the benefit of leaf matter in your beds. Stiff hard leaves like those below take time to break down and should be cut …

Continue reading

How to Use Compost

This is a follow-up blog to my previous titled “Composting” so if you have not read it, click the link because this is an area that requires more than one page. Composting has many different sides to it, there are the composters, the vessel used to create compost, composters, the people who make their own …

Continue reading

%d bloggers like this: