By George! - A Blog!

The southwest desert region is doing what comes naturally at this timeof year, around the equinox, coupled with a full moon.
Strong winds come from the east, laden with dust, and contrary winds from the west should bring us rain, and they did their best last week. Sunny days and cool nights are part of 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 […]

The bible says “there is a time and a season for all things” and there is a time coming up for planting the warm season plants. We might even say the hot season plants. Apart from the landscape plants, there are four or five vegetable plants that enjoy hot weather and hot soil. […]

For the past three years we have carried out trials to find suitable varieties of vegetables that can be successfully grown in the desert. The findings are passed on to our gardeners when we meet with them and through the newsletters
We determined the best time to set out onion seedlings (not the dried out bulblets […]

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 […]