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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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.
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.
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.
