Tag: maricopa
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Confronting Pests and Disease in the Garden
A healthy garden is never completely bug-free, and it shouldn’t be. Most insects that you’ll find in your garden-space are harmless or helpful, while some become pests only when their numbers grow large enough to damage plants. The same is true of leaf changes and common disease: yellowing, curling, spotting, browning, and wilting are not…
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Citrus Trees Don’t Belong in the Sonoran Desert: Confronting the Challenges
Citrus trees are some of the most beloved fruiting plants in warm-climate landscapes, it definitely hits home to imagine they don’t belong in the low, arid desert regions of southern Arizona, especially with so many available options! Oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, mandarins, and pomelos all belong to the citrus family, a group of evergreen trees…
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Mulberry Trees
What a sweet tasty treat to have mulberries! Better yet, have mulberries growing in your yard that produce every spring in Late March and April! Mulberries are my favorite fruits growing in my home garden that produce abundantly every year. I have always loved the fruit and the broad leaves that are amazing for shade.…
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Clay Soil – A Grower’s Turmoil
A gardener’s roadmap to understanding, nurturing, and thriving in the challenging soils of the Sonoran Desert – By Austin Lynn, Garden Social AZ🌿 Gardening in Southern Arizona is an act of optimism—a belief that beauty can defy severity, that color and life can flourish despite the odds. If you have ever picked up a shovel…
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