Summer gardening

Planting heat-tolerant cover crops after spring crops finish is an excellent way to improve your soil while waiting for fall planting season.

Learn how to create shade in the garden: includes information on which vegetables need shade, and which percentage of shade cloth to use.

Everything you need to plant, prune, harvest & fertilize during June in your low desert Arizona garden.

Learning how to keep chickens cool during hot summers (especially in Arizona) is an essential part of caring for chickens.

Adding shade cloth to a hot summer garden is easier than you think. This is how we added shade cloth to our Arizona garden this year.

What you do before the heat comes affects how your garden withstands the heat. Here are ten ways to prepare your hot-climate summer garden.

Learning how to grow sweet potatoes is surprisingly easy – just a few plants provide a plentiful harvest. Sweet potatoes need a long warm growing season, are heat-tolerant and drought-resistant, and …

I first saw four o’clocks on a list of flowers that bloom through Arizona summers. I didn’t know how to grow four o’clocks but thought – hey, if they can …

Sunflowers are simple to grow, and the seeds are a delicious snack. Keep reading to learn how to grow edible sunflower seeds, when to harvest sunflowers for the plumpest kernels, …

Spilanthes is a heat-loving flower commonly called “toothache plant” due to the numbing sensation experienced after eating the leaves or flowers.