Gardening for Stress Relief
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Starting a Garden in Yuma AZ
Yuma Arizona is at the corner of the desert southwest. Home to the cactus, ocotillos, saguaros, prickly pears, and our favorite the one and only, tumbleweeds. Yes, Yuma is a desert town. She is mostly cover in sand. She is the worlds the sunniest city!
Yuma would be a complete desert if it wasn’t for the Colorado river and Gila river running through her. Starting a garden in Yuma, AZ is just completely difficult. Is it?
Moringa the Miracle Tree
First of all, what is a moringa tree? How to plant moringa tree? Why should you care? Where do I get it? Or why is it called it moringa the miracle tree? If you don’t know what moringa is read along and find out for yourself and maybe it might benefit you. Today, I’m going […]
Milk-and-Wine Crinum Lily
This little beauty use to have big long green leaves. The milk and wine (Crinum latifolium) lily are so beautiful that I never get a chance to see it fully bloomed. I also acquired this lily from my mom. Last time I wrote about my white spider crinum lily. Today I will be guiding you […]
Red Sugar Cane
How to Plant Red Sugar Cane The weather is a lot cooler here in Yuma, AZ now. It’s the perfect time to start prepping your garden for seeding and planting. Transplanting other ornamental plants as well. I enjoy planting from scratch so I am going to prep my garden for seeding vegetables and herbs plus […]
Backyard Corn Growing Zone 10A
Hello, my fellow backyard gardeners! Welcome back to my website. As you can see the monkey-eating corn. Monkey see monkey do! This would be the perfect time to start growing corn, backyard corn growing. Right now in the desert southwest at the beginning of August 2019, our temperatures are cooling down. Not so much but […]
What Is White Spider Lily Crinum Plant
I’m so excited about my white spider crinum lily plant this year. Have you ever planted anything that you can’t wait to see it grow or bloom? If you ever had trouble growing these beautiful lilies you’re not alone. The anticipation of waiting was so tiring that I just simply gave up on having […]
How To Propagate Thai Basil
Today we are going to learn how to propagate Thai basil. This kind of basil is used in most Asian cooking. I use this as garnish along with other herbs and spices for my cooking. It’s in the middle of summer and the temperature is at 106 °F today. I recently bought some Thai […]
Late Summer Vegetable Garden
So we are in the middle of summer and the sun is beating down hard on us in the southwest desert while monsoon is ready to strike us anytime any moment without notice. And you have an idea you want to start a vegetable garden in the middle of this war.
Build Your Own Tower Garden
Okay so you guys the summer has already started and it’s like super hot out here. Who wants to build your own tower garden? If you have been following me and know that the where I live, summer is a scorcher! Sorry I haven’t been able to update you guys on my planting. So many […]