Spring Has Officially Started; So Can Your Garden!
As Arizona warms up, it’s time to jumpstart your warm season vegetable garden. Prep your soil, choose heat-tolerant veggies, and start seeds indoors or sow directly into well-drained beds. Water consistently and watch out for pests. With care, your Arizona garden will thrive in the desert heat, yielding a plentiful harvest.
Gardening Expert Jay Harper helps us get going on our spring garden and discusses:
- What should be inspected for your irrigation
- Tips for the lawn transition from winter rye grass to bermuda.
- Tips to extend that rye grass if you desire.
- It’s not too late to plant tomatoes but Jay has varieties to consider.
- How to attract pollinators.
- And ways to control weeds!!
Tried and True Garden Soil Recipe
Ingredients:
For every 100 sq ft (10×10)
- 6 bags of 1.5 – 2.0 cubic ft of good quality compost material
- 10lbs of gypsum
- 1-2 lbs of soil sulfur
- Approximately 5lbs of a good quality organic fertilizer; like Hickman’s farms choice or you can blend 2-3 lbs of blood meal and 4-5 lbs of bone meal together.
Directions:
- This should be tilled into about 12″ in depth and watered well one time before planting.
- Continue to fertilize with the organic fertilizer of your choice every 30 days or so.
- This process should be repeated every season just prior to planting.
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As it gets warmer with the sun rising earlier, Jay Harper has a checklist of to-do’s like irrigation, summer veggies and melons to plant, mulching materials and options for shade. Plus many text questions from listeners on gardening, trees and landscaping.
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Spring has sprung! Gardening Expert Jay Harper lists some of the warm season veggies to plant for a nice harvest. Also tips on rye grass lawns known as winter lawns ‘sweet spot’. Irrigation, drip emitters, weed control and the benefits of flowers in your spring garden.
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Jay Harper says it’s time to transition from winter to warm season veggies: Tomatoes, squash, herbs, peppers, melons and more! Starting small is the key for first timers. Plus, we talk about the advantages of raised container gardening over typical ground planting. We also cover fertilizing, watering techniques, weed control; all you need to know to grow your own!
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