The Go Gardening Show is a project that is being produced by the Trinity Glen Rose Groundwater Conservation District and Gardening Volunteers of South Texas. Go Gardening is also made possible through our co-title sponsor Edwards Aquifer Authority and San Antonio River Authority.​ You can now watch those Episodes on GVST's YouTube channel.​

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Go Gardening Show - Season 4 - Episode 4

In May, the Go Gardening Show, supported by the Trinity Glen Rose District, is featuring an interview at the Edwards Aquifer Authority’s Field Research Park. Mark Hamilton and Thomas Marsalia gave our crew a tour of the 150 acre tract and talked about the new and innovative research on the Edwards Aquifer and how the aquifer and your landscape at home can look great and save water by using native plants instead of turf. If you’re a little knowledgable of the Edwards Aquifer, you won’t want to miss this fascinating discussion on how researchers are learning more about this critical water supply for the Edwards Aquifer Region.

 

Next, the Go Gardening team visited a home in the Rogers Ranch area. We first saw our guest, Alexa Volpe on the South Texas Gardener Show which airs from Austin, and we knew we had to see her landscape in person. Alexa talked about how she converted a turf-grass only yard into her own park-like setting featuring Texas Native Plants and a few native adapted plants. What also makes this interview so interesting is that Alexa and her family moved from Georgia to Texas about six years ago, and she quickly learned the importance of picking the right native plants for her landscape rather relying on her “gardening in Georgia” know-how.

 

Go Gardening's mission is to help people conserve water in the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers by teaching homeowners how to convert turfgrass areas to low-to-no water use landscapes featuring native plants.