We live less than a 1/4 mile outside of downtown Tucson in a rented house with a backyard garden of 250 sq ft. We plant over 60 varieties of vegetables and herbs every year mostly for personal consumption. We also have 7 crazy chickens! Our favorite things to grow so far are tomatoes, artichokes and corn. Most of the seeds come from Baker Creek as well as Native Seed Search. We start 99% of our plants from seeds. We are forced to use drip irrigation due to the arid, desert conditions we live, in as well as 30% shade cloth during the summer for most of the garden. We have been wildly successful in growing tomatoes...
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Very wonderful assortment of pictures... Very well taken! :) |
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Snow in Tucson this morning! Had to cover up the corn and add some extra mulch around the rest of the plants. Hopefully this will make for some delicious Kale!
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@Jentheo: I am not sure any advice I have would be that great because of the differences in our climate. Here I would not grow broccoli or cauliflower in the spring I would only put them in the fall ... more » |
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Clenram, I have them started already in doors and have slowly been hardening them off, I am hoping to get them out in the next week. I'm getting excited! I think this Year I am going to watch them more clo... more » |
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@ Jentheo- This was our first year growing this variety and despite planting this plant in October, it still seemed to suffer from the early heat down here. Tucson got hot fairly early, but we've also had ... more » |
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Sooo good! Very tender and mild up front with a great spice at the end. Great picture. |
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