How to Garden in Arizona - Tips & Tricks
How to Garden in Arizona - Tips & Tricks. Find out everything you need to know about gardening in the desert. Learn what the best varieties are for the high summer months, and download our monthly planting calendars.Check back every month to find the newest garden checklists. Growing your own backyard vegetable garden is not difficult if you learn a few tricks. We will be adding posts from organic pest control methods, to tips on growing specific fruits and vegetables in your home garden.Not sure what the best varieties to grow? Every month we list our favorite variety of seeds to plant in your low desert garden.
How to Grow Grapes in Arizona
Even though we live in the desert where Temperatures reach 120 plus in the summertime, there is a wide variety of fruits and veggies that can be grown here. Our backyard garden has a good variety of these plants including Red Flame Grapes. Did you know you can grow grapes in Arizona? What varieties of grapes do well in the desert? The best grapes to grow in Arizona’s desert areas are European varieties of grapes. Here is a list of both table grapes and wine grapes that do well here: Table Grapes Red Flame Seedless Grapes(Red) Thompson Seedless Grapes (Green) Cardinal Grapes (Dark Red) Perlette Grapes (Green) Wine Grapes Shiraz…
What Is A Wicking Bed
So as you may know, we have recently moved from Washington, the state of perpetual rain to Arizona….. the desert. After being here for just a year I am ready to figure out the best local and eco-friendly gardening methods available for growing vegetables in the desert. Here in Phoenix, we can garden almost year round. The summers do get a little hot (110 degrees plus), even a little toasty for my tomatoes. I didn’t know you could grow sun dried tomatoes on the vine until we moved here :). They are trying to tough it out for another month or so then as it cools they will…
Common Types of Worms for Home Composting
If you are interested in home composting, there is no faster way to turn your food scraps into nutrient-rich compost than by using worms to do your dirty work. Composting worms can eat 50-100% of their body weight a day in scraps. Below is a list of the common types of worms for home composting. Common Types of Worms for Home Composting There are 3 major types of worms for home composting. The Red Wigglers (most common) The European Nightcrawlers The African Nightcrawlers Below is a detailed description of the 3 types of worms for composting. Red Wigglers: Red Wigglers (Eisensia fetida) are the most common type of worms for…
Affordable DIY Patio
Below is a project and write up I completed while living in Washington State. Let me know what you think!!!! Looking for an affordable DIY patio? So was I when I came across an ad in a local online buy/sell/trade website. It was a listing for FREE leftover granite pieces from a local granite business. It turns out, it is cheaper for these businesses to give away the scrap pieces from projects they have finished than to haul the 1000 lb pallets to the local dump. To me the words FREE and DIY are what really get me excited. So I started thinking what could I do with a couple…
Aqua what? Aquaponics!
My love of gardening plus my love of tinkering = a love for trying & building new things. One day the kids and I were home. I was browsing the net looking for new ideas for my Arizona garden… and low and behold.. what did I find. Aquaponics. This is like a tinkerer’s dream come true… build a self-contained system using grow beds, pipes, pumps, (duct tape), and fish to create a sustainable food production super system. So I look at the kids and ask them if they want to get a new pet… or 6. Of course, the answer was yes. So off we went… first to…