Gardening for Hot and Dry Climates
When you’ve been gardening in a climate with four seasons and move to a hot, dry climate, gardening becomes a whole new experience. I’ve come across many people who have given up on gardening in our Arizona desert, because it wasn’t as easy as it …
If you ask a child what a plant needs to grow, common answers are going to be water, sun, soil, and air. Any beginning gardener would agree with the child. The one thing that is commonly forgotten about or least understood is feeding plants. There …
As someone who grew up on berries living in Northern Michigan, where they grew like weeds, moving to the Arizona desert presented many challenges with growing berries. I’ve experimented with different types of berries and witnessed other local gardener’s successes or failures with growing berries …
Have you ever dug in soil that just crumbled or was super dense? Well, if you live in hot, dry climates like the Arizona desert, this is a pretty common experience. Unless you’ve taken measures to create a healthy soil, I highly doubt any worm …
After several years of gardening or mastering growing the basics, has your love for gardening started to diminish? It may be time to take your gardening skills to the next level. Anything can lose its luster if we don’t continue to push ourselves to new …
After you finish cleaning the juice from your face gobbling up a mango, you’re left with a large seed pod. It’s pretty common to look at the seed and wonder if it could one day turn into a mango producing tree. Should I grow a …
In my daily interactions with others, as I discuss my gardening hobby, I tend to get comments like, “Oh, I’ve tried that but just don’t have a green thumb or things just don’t grow in the desert.” There are so many reasons why people have …
As someone living in the Phoenix, Arizona area, which is one of the largest U.S. cities, I’ve been fortunate enough to find many amazing local nurseries or places that offer a variety of different fruit trees. If you aren’t quite as lucky to have many …