Imperial Beach Ocean Friendly Garden

Description

We had a lawn that we weren't thrilled with and we wanted to put something in that required less water. Surfrider OFG Program Chair, Susan Krzywicki, was instrumental in getting the process going and coming out to survey our property. She provided us with ideas for the yard, and she was so helpful and knowledgeable with any questions that we had.
My wife and I did all of the work ourselves, and my dad helped out a lot. I bought a rototiller from my buddy and got rid of all of the grass. We put elevation in a few spots and leveled out the rest the best that we could. We borrowed a trailer from my step-dad to transfer materials. Then we put down weed blocker under where the decomposed granite is, and we put cardboard over almost all of the rest of the yard.
We waited until we had a break from our work and we took about 2 solid weeks to complete it, but there were some other things that took us longer to do that we couldn't do it at once.
We bought the dg from RCP block and brick, a lot of things from home depot, wood chips from the dump, and plants mostly from Recon Native Nursery down in South County San Diego. Most of the cost of the project was covered by our water company-California American Water-which provided $1/sq. ft. for the project.