By George! - A Blog!

Three leading lights of the Community Gardens of Tucson spent a day at a recent Farmer’s Market on the University of Arizona Mall. Actually there was only one true farmer there selling local produce, but other booths advertised good things to do with growing your own healthy food, herb plants, royal jelly and honey. […]

The good gardener that you are means that you’ve completed all your soil preparation and seed sowing and planting. Now you’re waiting for your first harvests of cool season vegetables.
Here’s a way to speed up the first of your fresh fall food. Grow sprouts.
You put seeds in a Mason jar, add water and in […]

You can tell when a neighbor family has been on vacation by the color of their skin. It’s pink or red and it’s often blistered and raw. Much too much exposure also leads to skin cancer and Tucson claims to be the skin cancer capital of the world. Take care!
Do your gardening in […]

When, in your enthusiasm to get a new season’s gardening started, you sow seeds or set out plants in the full knowledge of what they are and where they came from.
For a short time you’ll remember these important facts but most of us can’t tell, at the end of the season, which variety was the […]

We’ve had two days of cloudy weather and two nights of steady rain, though in parts of Tucson we’ve had downpours.
Rain has made a difference to our environment; some quite obvious like removing the dust out of the air and from leaf surfaces. Everything looks clean–and it is. The distant mountains come closer and we […]

Watching bees travel purposefully from flower to flower is a pleasant sight, and a calming one. Noting the different speeds they use to leave and return to the hive is super instructive. There’s high speed urgency during a honey flow and a leisurely calm flight at other times transmits a restful air to […]