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Practical, non-salesy guides to help San Diego homeowners understand landscaping problems, costs and next steps before they call a company.
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- Replacing Your Lawn in San Diego: Options, Rebates and Rules
How San Diego homeowners replace thirsty lawns: low-water planting, lower-water grass, hardscape and artificial turf, plus rebates, water rules and costs. - Fire-Safe Landscaping in San Diego: Defensible Space Basics
What San Diego homeowners near canyons and open space need to know about defensible space: Zone 0, brush management, fire-wise plants and hardscape. - San Diego Watering Rules and Irrigation: A Homeowner's Guide
San Diego's year-round watering rules, how to set an irrigation controller for coastal vs. inland yards, backflow testing, drip conversion and cost factors.
Sources and further reading
- City of San Diego Public Utilities: water use restrictions
- City of San Diego: cross-connection control and backflow prevention
- City of San Diego: guide to brush management for property owners
- City of San Diego Development Services: retaining wall information bulletin
- Contractors State License Board: choosing a landscape contractor
- Contractors State License Board: minor work exemption increase (AB 2622)
- California Department of Water Resources: Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance
- California Department of Pesticide Regulation: is your landscaper licensed?
- San Diego County Water Authority: rebates
- County of San Diego: Waterscape rebate program
- UC IPM Guide to Healthy Lawns
- California Invasive Plant Council: Don't Plant a Pest (Southern California)
- National Weather Service San Diego: climate of San Diego
- SDG&E: call 811 before you dig
- EPA WaterSense