What should I plant during this drought? —Water-Worried Wendy, Noleta
Gustavo the Gardenator says you can have a chingón garden even when it doesn’t rain for long time. The popular trend is to use gravel wherever possible and to swap your grass lawn for wood chips and drought-friendly plants, or by installing drip irrigation systems.
It’s cheap, fast, and easy to replace grass lawns with a wood chips, he said, explaining, “P%$#@ woodchip, no mas parajes la tierra y ya.” (Roughly meaning, “Just level that s%#$, sprinkle some woodchips, and you’re done.”) Redwood chips cost more than regular looking wood chips, but look nice. A drip system makes watering the plants easy and water efficient.