Step 10: Harvest at Peak Quality
Your vegetable garden has been planted, and it’s growing like crazy! So when do you harvest your little gems? Check out the video gardening tip to see how best to harvest your veggies here in the Phoenix desert.
Your vegetable garden has been planted, and it’s growing like crazy! So when do you harvest your little gems? Check out the video gardening tip to see how best to harvest your veggies here in the Phoenix desert.
Ready to sit back and watch your vegetable garden sprout up? Adding mulch helps control weeds, but it can’t keep pests at bay. Luckily we don’t have many pests or problems in the Phoenix desert. Watch this video for gardening tips on how best to control pests and deal with problems in your vegetable garden.
Last week, I posted a video on how to irrigate your vegetable garden for success. Unless you have a small garden (and hose!) right outside your door and you remember to water it every day or two, relying on your memory and manually watering will only lead to disappointment. This is especially true in the Phoenix desert where soils dry up and heat up pretty quickly.
So here are 4 easy ways to water your vegetable garden for success:
What’s missing from this list?
(By the way, I searched “watering vegetable gardens” to find the image for this post and saw all kinds of images of people pouring water ON their plants. Spraying water on plants instead of on the soil is a like an open invitation for pests and diseases. Because we have so little rain here in the Phoenix desert, we have fewer plant and pest problems. So resist the urge to spray plants and focus your efforts on the soil.)