California Friendly® Gardening Web Tutorials
About half of all urban water use in Southern California is used by outdoor landscapes. The California Friendly Landscape Training (CFLT) Training Program focuses on reduced water use in landscapes and is available to landscape professionals and homeowners. The classes cover soils, watering and fertilizers, basic landscape design considerations, landscape irrigation systems, and low water use plants. The classes are now offered as free web tutorials. Click on the links below to fill out a simple survey then take the self-guided tutorial.
California Friendly® Gardening for the Water Wise Gardener
Four short 15-minute tutorials covering key points of water-wise gardening.
- Getting Started – Landscape Design Basics
- Plant Selection
- Irrigation System Basics
- Planting & Maintenance
Plant Selection
A one-hour in-depth class about plant selection
- Plant characteristics
- Planting and maintenance
- Plant types
Plant Care
A one-hour class about the care of plants
- Analyzing your soil
- Creating a water schedule
- Feeding your plants
Future Web Tutorials
For the Residential Gardener:
• Landscape Design Basics
• Efficient Irrigation Systems
For Landscape Professionals:
• Irrigation Principles, Adjustment and Repairs
• Irrigation System Troubleshooting
• Controller Programming
• Irrigation Scheduling
