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Rainwater Harvesting · April 21, 2026 · 5 replies · 60 views
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Soil Health · Feb. 13, 2026 · 7 replies · 87 views
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I'm glad you mentioned that asthma, spect,the next door neighbor's kid has it, so I might skip that. I only saw it from behind as it ran off and I've never actually seen one before. It was fat like, well fed cat size. I'm interested to hear how your…
June 6, 2026
Not that anyone asked, but so far the tomatoes with the melons are going hood. Unfortunately, a squirrel like creature stripped them clean last night before I could harvest anything 😭 I got a bunch of leafless plant nubs of tomatoes, melons and pump…
June 3, 2026
Not really related but it just reminds me of my situation with the back yard. Whomever owned my house before me, seems to have buried their trash in the back yard. So that's been fun. I am doing little sections at a time and it feels never ending.
May 27, 2026
Thank you for the suggestion, I'm not familiar with castor bean so I appreciate the tip. No kids and the dogs are backyard only, so this sounds perfect for my front yard. My husband's surprised me with some AZ native wildflower seeds, which I'm pret…
April 21, 2026
I do have a trellis set up for the melons to grow up and over the tomatoes. I also have sunflowers planted to create some shade. I have 8 varieties of tomatoes in 4 different spots in the yard to figure out which variety does best in which spot. I'…
April 15, 2026
How about a miscellaneous category for things that don't fit anywhere specific or fit into more than 1 category? (like where would I discuss chaos gardening or breaking garden "rules", experimenting, etc..
April 14, 2026
I have a texas mountain laurel tree, a dwarf orange and dwarf grapefruit. Which i just put in after my original post.Then I've got a tecoma stans, a couple of texas rangers, a Mexican honeysuckle, sweet potato vine and couple of cactus cuttings. I g…
April 8, 2026
Well I got some mulch, not enough for the whole yard, but it's a start.
April 7, 2026
Hi J. Rowson, I'm oringally from Las Vegas, moved to Tucson,AZ end of 2019. I just got a new house this last year with a blank slate of yard, I started with trying to be intentional in my planting but do get a bit of let's just put this here and see…
March 24, 2026
Makes sense, I can never get the timing right for when to start different seeds. BTW I'm in Tucson also
March 13, 2026
Speaking of seed starting, why is it you have to start tomatoes in advance and plant from starts? Why can't you just plant the seeds directly?
March 13, 2026
Yes and yes! I have started to improve my soil one little section at a time.
Feb. 12, 2026
