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Five Useful Plants to Grow in Your Garden

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Starting a garden in Phoenix, Arizona is a difficult task due to its extreme heat during the summer months and the not ideal natural soil conditions. It takes planning and effort to create a garden bed suitable to grow a wide range of plants. A benefit of gardening in Phoenix, Arizona in particular is that you have the ability to garden year-round with multiple growing seasons appropriate for different types of plants.

Ten Raised Garden Bed Ideas

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Raised garden beds add a level of versatility to your gardening that would not otherwise be possible. You can use them to add another layer of pest and animal protection, increase your gardening area, or create an attractive design feature.

Drought Tolerant Plants for the Arizona Garden

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The hot, dry summers of Arizona can be a challenge for gardeners in the southwest. However, when you choose drought-tolerant plants, you can enjoy a gorgeous garden all-year-round. And what's more, drought-tolerant plants are usually easy-care, so you can spend more time enjoying your garden without the backbreaking labor.

How to Compost in the Southwest: Why Plants Love Compost

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Arizona is a place of heat and sunshine, which some plant species love, but the dry conditions and hot daytime temperatures make it tough for desert gardeners. Southwest soils are often too sandy for many plants, and the lack of reliable rainfall limits plant selection for avid gardeners.

The Pros and Cons of Gardening in Arizona

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Gardening in a desert environment can be a tough challenge. Tips and strategies that help create thriving gardens in other parts of the world, like zones, seed packets, and timing your planting, will often fall flat in drier desert climates.

Gardening for Social Change

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Community gardens have been gaining momentum in the past decade. Many have been developed to combat undesirable trends in food production and processing because industrialization, mass production, and globalization are responsible for shrinking diversity in food choices.

Fun and Easy Ways to Propagate Your Favorite Plants

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How often have you taken the dog for a walk and admired the gorgeous succulent or perennial in a neighbor's garden? You have probably found yourself wishing you could have one just like it. Did you know that all it will take for you to enjoy a new and beautiful specimen in your garden is to ask your neighbor for a cutting?

The Importance of Gardening at a Young Age

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A lot of people think gardening is something they will do when they retire and finally have time to while away in the garden. However, especially if there are young children in the family, you shouldn’t wait until your twilight years before you get out the gardening tools.

Guest Blogger: Richard Mellen on Raised-Bed Gardening in the Southwest

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My raised-bed garden in the southwest journey has taken me on quite a learning path. In the beginning, I was interested in growing things but never got the hang of it. Trying to produce items in small pots on your western exposure patio during a blazing Phoenix summer is enough to get anyone discouraged. Then I bought my second house a few years ago, which had a decent backyard with excellent southern and eastern exposure.

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Five Useful Plants to Grow in Your Garden

Ten Raised Garden Bed Ideas

Drought Tolerant Plants for the Arizona Garden

How to Compost in the Southwest: Why Plants Love Compost

The Pros and Cons of Gardening in Arizona

Gardening for Social Change

Fun and Easy Ways to Propagate Your Favorite Plants

The Importance of Gardening at a Young Age

Guest Blogger: Richard Mellen on Raised-Bed Gardening in the Southwest

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