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About ​How to Grow Food Organically in
a Small Space and in the Supremely Hot and Dry Low Desert Climate of Phoenix, Arizona

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Please note that my website looks best from a computer and is most easily navigated that way, too.
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​For those new to organic vegetable gardening, the best time to begin to grow your own food was several years ago, but now is second best. ​Even if you start with just one vegetable, herb, or fruit tree, you too can learn how to grow your own food in your own Phoenix, Arizona desert garden (yard) or in any other hot climate! Container gardening is one of the easiest ways to begin a vegetable garden, and you may never need a raised bed even if organic hot weather desert gardening--not just cool climate or cool weather gardening--is what you have in mind.

Starting your education and planning for the following year four or more months before spring (October or earlier) is ideal, but with the right elements in place, you can even start some things for a fall harvest in the heat of summer. For example, I'm now successfully starting heirloom tomatoes from SEED outdoors in dry 114 F Arizona weather, and my Phoenix summer garden just became much more exciting as homegrown and heirloom tomatoes provide an array of flavors not found at the grocery store.

Lower on this page, you'll find a long list of the foods I have grown in my desert gardens, but I want to add here that I'm quickly becoming a tomato lady (I was growing 70+ varieties in the spring of 2022) after having tasted some fantastic homegrown tomatoes and some of the best of the many varieties of heirloom tomatoes that people have treasured for decades. I most love very sweet and very tangy tomatoes with complex flavors or even the fruity notes found in some varieties, but I also adore the very sweet tomatoes with mild to medium acidity. That said, I've even found great acidic varieties for those who prefer almost no sweetness.
Click on the photographs from my own Arizona vegetable gardens if you want to learn how to garden in a hot climate or even a super hot and dry desert like Phoenix (you can learn a lot from my photographs and website content even if you are not yet ready to hire me as a consultant), noting that only about ten on the whole website are photos of food from other gardens or a store.

As of about May 12, 2022, I began creating a new section of photographs organized by food type (e.g., apples, grapes, citrus trees, ​guavas, and tomatoes). It can be found toward the middle of this page and here.

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(Plus Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, California and Other Areas with Cool to Extremely Hot Weather)
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In-person consulting may be available in Phoenix, Arizona
upon inquiry, but photographs may prevent the need.
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Plus I Can Give Tips for Growing Food In-Ground

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Most of the food I have grown has been in containers (yes, container gardening in the desert!), but at my last home, I also had a ​large raised bed for my organic vegetable garden. I've also done a good amount of research on edible plants best grown ​in-ground or that can't fit into my relatively small space. And while I grow a number of newer cultivars called hybrids (NEVER GMOs), ​my preference is usually heirlooms for the stability they offer. 
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​​e.g., Texas, Nevada, California, New Mexico, and other parts of Arizona

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Though supremely hot and dry low desert gardening is what I have the most experience with, I can also help those in climates less hot than Phoenix, Arizona's ​103-122ish-degree ​summers enjoy organic vegetable gardening and growing food for oneself ​only or perhaps as part of a community of family and friends ​who each grow ​their ​own ​types of food and share the surplus.
Some of the many foods I have grown (mostly in containers) that are photographed in this section follow: cherries, sweet peppers, a first blackberry, cherry tomatoes, melons, guavas, buttternut squash, a vegetable that is similar to green beans, cactus fruit, kiwano melon, figs, kumquats, tomatillos, sage, carrots, a super sweet squash, a delicious spinach substitute, thyme, carrots, beets with mild edible leaves, olive tree, and nopales which are prickly pear flesh of the tastier and more tender cultivars, and kale.
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To make the most of my desert climate, I am now adding cacti to my desert garden--types that are grown for the fruits and/or the flesh.

VEGETABLES AND OTHER Food I'VE GROWN
In MY SMALL SPACE SO FAR ARE LISTED BELOW

Vegetables, Fruit, Grains, Herbs and Spices, Seeds, and Nuts

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I am adding photographs by food category in the blue section just below this one,
 and please note that a few of the flowers are not edible but are for attracting pollinators and beneficial insects. 
Note that a few of the flowers are not edible but are for attracting pollinators and beneficial insects.
  • Apples
  • Aromatics like lavender, patchouli, and geranium
  • Arugula
  • Asian vegetables like bok choy and napa cabbage
  • Beans
  • Beets
  • Blackberries
  • Boysenberries
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Cacti for their fruit and/or flesh; prickly pears are one example
  • Carrots
  • Chamomile
  • Cherries
  • Citrus: key limes, limes, kumquats, lemons, mandarins
  • Cucumbers & gherkins
  • Dandelion greens
  • Eggplant
  • Elderberries
  • Figs
  • Flowers for attracting bees and other pollinators​
  • ​​​​​​​Garlic
  • Goji Berries​​​​​​
  • Goldenberries
  • Grains like oats, barley, and sorghum
  • ​​Grapes including muscadines
  • Green bean alternatives
  • ​Green onions
  • Guavas
  • Herbs like parsley, sage, oregano, fennel, mint, rosemary, thyme, basil, mint, lavender, cilantro, bay leaves, celery, dill, caraway, ginger, lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, and mushroom herb
  • Hibiscus calyces for tea
  • Hot peppers
  • Jujube fruit
  • Kale
  • Kiwano melons
  • Leafy vegetables like chard, collards, mustard, orach, and shungiku
  • Lettuce
  • Louffa/luffa sponges
  • Melons including watermelons
  • Moringa ​​​​
  • Mulberries
  • Nasturtiums
  • Neem tree
  • ​​​Okra​​​​
  • ​​​Olive tree
  • ​Papaya
  • Passion Fruit
  • Peanuts
  • Peas
  • Pepino melons
  • Pomegranate tree (my last landlord kept it, but I cared      for it for two years)
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkins, squash, zucchini
  • Radishes
  • Some rare fruit trees
  • Spinach
  • Squash
  • ​​Sunflowers
  • Sweet peppers
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Tamarind
  • Tomatillos
  • Tomatoes
  • Turnips
  • Yerba mate 
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​And a Video

of my Organic Vegetable Gardens

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I have had my own organic vegetable gardens in the low desert of Phoenix, Arizona (Zone 9b) for 4+ years, and below are many photographs from my two organic vegetable gardens (one using a raised bed and containers while the other is almost completely potted). I have grown over 100 varieties and types of edibles/food--with more varieties ​being trialed now--of vegetables, ​fruit, ​culinary herbs, grains, seeds, peanuts, cacti, and 'medicinal herbs' (that's what they're called, but I believe that God designed *all* of his foods to create healthy bodies and that there's a spiritual component to health)--in this hot low desert. If you have your heart set on desert gardening or even just want to look into what it would take to succeed, I'd love to help you plan your desert garden or even just learn how to garden in the desert!
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ORganized by Food Category
Photographs of Some of What I Have Learned to Grow
(Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, Spices, Grains, and Peanuts)​
​IN MY DESERT GARDEN (TECHNICALLY TWO GARDENS OVER 4+ YEARS)

Apples
Arugula
Asian Melons
Barley
Basil
Bay Leaves
Beans
Beets
Blackberries
Black Goji Berry Plant
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Caraway Seeds
Cantaloupe-Type Melons
Carrots
Catnip
Celery
Chamomile
Chard
Cherries
Cilantro
Citrus Trees
Collard Greens
Corn
Cucumbers
Dandelion Greens
Dill
Eggplant
Elderberries
Elephant Ear
Feijoa aka Pineapple Guava
Fennel
Fig Trees
Galangal
Geranium
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Geranium leaves are edible, but they're mostly used for fragrance.
Gherkins
Goji Berries
Goldenberries
Grapes
Green-Bean-Like Gourd
Green-Bean-Like Vegetables
Green Onions
Guavas
Hibiscus Calyces for Tea
Hot Peppers
Jujube Fruit
Kale
Kiwano Melon
Lavender
Lemongrass and Red Malabar Spinach
Lettuce
Lettuce Substitute or Salad Additive
Millet
as Bird Seed or for Sprouting
Mint/Peppermint
Moringa Tree
with Edible Leaves
Mustard
Nasturtiums
Neem Tree
Oats
Okra
Olive Tree
Oregano
Papaya
Parsley
Passion Fruit
Patchouli
Peanuts
Pepino Melons
Pomegranate Tree
Potatoes
Purslane
Radish Greens
Rosemary
Sage
Sorghum Grain!
Spinach
 Spinach Substitutes (Five Excellent Ones)
Starfruit Tree
Stevia (Natural Sweetener)
Sunflowers
Sweet Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Tamarind Fruit Tree
Tatsoi
Thyme
Tomatillos
Tomatoes
Turmeric
Turnips
Watermelons
Winter Squash (Pumpkins, Butternut, and Hard-Shelled Kinds)
Yerba Mate Tea
Yellow Squash
Zucchini
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​One long slideshow of many types of mostly food-bearing plants is below.
 "I'm getting my PhD in urban agriculture, and I've never seen a potted garden as impressive as yours. You should be in Phoenix Home and Garden magazine!" A neighbor 
(Glory to GOD for HIS designs!)
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A WALK THROUGH my
ORGANIC Container Vegetable/Edible GARDEN

on april 17, 2021

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If you Want to Learn How to Grow Food
BUT SCROLLING IS NOT EASY for you RIGHT NOW

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Screen captures from my website have been made into a slideshow here.

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