Vegetable Gardening Blog

Water is the currency of desert gardening. Every drop you waste is money evaporating into 8% humidity. Here's how to grow more food with less water.

Every year around early July, the desert does something that shocks newcomers: it rains. A lot. And those rains unlock the best-kept secret in Southwestern gardening.

You moved to the desert and someone told you that you can't grow food here. They were wrong — but they weren't entirely crazy, either.

If you're planting tomatoes in April and wondering why they're dying by June, you've got the timing backwards. The desert Southwest plays by its own rules.