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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/28/2009, 9:53 am Post subject: 2009 Garden Journal |
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Photos in Gallery! My garden isn't as productive as I had hoped, but I am getting a lot of zucchinis and lg. tomatoes. I also have corn that never matured fully, but it has little ears, and also I have yellow squash. We have green apples and grapes as well.
This year was not the best, but last year I didn't garden at all so this spring I had to re-do my soil, and hopefully next year it will be in shape. My plan is to put manure, bone meal, etc. into the soil this fall, instead of waiting until spring, and have someone rototill it all up. (Not sure I can manage a rototiller.)
Anyone else have a garden this year?
Want some zukes?
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desertgirl
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ
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Posted: 8/28/2009, 9:57 am Post subject: |
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Oh cool -- I was looking at your pictures & wondering what you had harvested. Now I know... _________________ Photos: http://www.pbase.com/desertgirl/galleries
Life is but a dream ...there is no end to what you can dream! |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/28/2009, 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Oh, yeah, I first posted the early spring ones, then added the summer ones a bit later. |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 8/28/2009, 11:33 am Post subject: our garden |
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That's great to see.
We let most of the regular garden go out this year. I do have okra that is still producing. I hope to have enough to cook by next weekend. We are in the planning stages of our new garden project which is to be a raised bed garden. We hope to have id done by mid September in order to get the fall/winter garden going.
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/28/2009, 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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I used to do raised bed gardening in other locales. However, I am not sure how you would make it work with ditch irrigation. Ditch irrigation up here runs from late April to early July, during the usually-dry season. Although I receive this water only about one hour per week during those months, it is a lot of water to manage. But some of my neighbors have devised ways to store it. If I had a big doughboy pool I could store it somehow, then the raised beds would be more practical. |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 9/2/2009, 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Nice Elizabeth, looks good to me. Especially the tomato. A fresh tomato sandwich sounds good right about now. I'm hoping to have the landscape guys haul out my dirt (clay/sand) in my planter box so I can replace it with good stuff. Hope it will be ready to try some fall planting. Haven't been able to plant since I moved here so I'm anxious to see if I can get something to grow (my gardening skills need to adjust to AZ). _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/3/2009, 4:06 am Post subject: |
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There is a book called Desert Gardening by George Brookbank, that I used all the time in Tucson, and bought a copy for my son when he was stationed in Yuma. Very cheap, used, on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Desert-Gardening-Brookbank/dp/1555610021 He also wrote a desert fruit tree book.
Brookbank was in charge of the Master Gardening program at Campbell Farms, the UA Farm in Tucson, next door to where I used to live. Although I never took the Master Gardening classes, I grew awesome gardens in Tucson, in a TRAILER PARK, including a winter garden! Winter desert gardens can be started now, while it's still warm, but you have to water the heck out of them so they don't dry up. You can start lettuce, root veggies, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale and cabbage. These will all tolerate cooler temps and even the very occasional Tucson wet snow.
I am really not putting the time into my garden here like I used to in Tucson when I was a stay-at-home mom. I have all this space here but really haven't utilized it the way I could. And as for flowers, I always thought it would be fun to have the entire front yard in flowers, instead of a stupid lawn. |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 9/5/2009, 1:00 pm Post subject: gardening book |
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I looked at the reviews and prices of this book on your recomendation and decided to order it. I'll go through it as I am our other gardening books. Thanks for the information.
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/6/2009, 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, you're welcome--have fun with that garden! |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 9/7/2009, 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Elizabeth, I've looked through several recommendations for books and hadn't decided on which one suited my needs the most. I'd buy several because they have something I like about them in each...but trying to be a bit more selective these days. Thought I saw that one but not sure if it is the same author, I'll have to check it out again with the author's name. I'll decide on one or maybe two. checked a few AZ Garden Forums and sites too. There is lots of info out there for you if you look. _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/7/2009, 8:58 am Post subject: |
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I'd suggest going to the library. I never even bought a copy in Tucson, I just kept checking it out and renewing it. If your local branch doesn't have it, then just put in a request for it with the librarian.
I am a really dedicated user of libraries, wherever I live! We have a brand-new one here in Eagar--very nice! http://www.roundvalleylibrary.com/ Check it out! |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 9/7/2009, 10:50 am Post subject: |
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I use the Phx libraries for audio books, an incredible deal. Should donate just for all the use and enjoyment I get out of it. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/7/2009, 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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I also listen to audio books--have listened to hundreds of them over the past 9 years, while sewing at one of my jobs. Some are books that I would never actually bother to read, but are sometimes not bad to listen to if the reader is good. |
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