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Hillside Garden Renovate

Central Texas Gardener takes brand-new and seasoned gardeners down a sustainable garden path with organic techniques, water-wise plants, and homegrown food. Get design inspiration, hands-on how-to, and behind-the-scenes tours of Texas gardeners at home.

Season 28 Episode 6 | 26m 46s | CC

Record heat, drought, and catastrophic ice put 2023 in the record books. Get growing again with unbeatable plants for sun and shade. Gardeners transformed an eroding slope to control rainwater runoff, planted with shade-lovers in clay soil. Learn how to scarify and stratify milkweed seeds and the difference between frost, freeze, and hard freeze.

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