Desert Horticulture

This episode is long overdue. I talk about how to irrigate so that you apply the right amount of water to the right depth and at the right time. Come join me in this important episode of Desert Horticulture.

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Growing tomatoes in the desert is not easy. Of all the vegetables in the tomato family (peppers, eggplant, potato) probably tomatoes are the most difficult. Listen to the podcast and get some pointers on growing tomatoes here if you are just starting out or moving to the desert from a wetter climate. See this printed on my blog, Xtremehorticulture of the Desert and the pictures I posted.

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This episode of Desert Horticulture announces the sight of the leaffooted plant bug, how to control weeds like sandbur and puncturevine without chemicals, precautions to take when planting horsetail or equisetum, problems that can develop if you have twisted myrtle and why ants are not a good idea around fig trees. All of this will be talked about and more on this episode of Desert Horticulture.

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Join me in this episode of Desert Horticulture where we explore why rotating vegetables is important even if you have one raised bed, different reasons why an apricot tree might drop its leaves and a disease of vegetables not seen to often in the desert, bacterial leaf spot. All this and more in this episode of Desert Horticulture.

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Join me in this episode to learn why recently planted asparagus didn't survive, white dwarf Southern Magnolia dropped its leaves and an apricot that came out beautifully in the spring suddenly lost half of its leaves on one side of the tree. Explore these topics with me and more in this episode of Desert Horticulture.

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This episode discusses the reality of converting a residential landscape to all Mojave Desert plants with no irrigation, success planting landscape plants in the ground still in their containers and starting new cacti from pads and the condition of the soil. These topics will be discussed in more in this episode of Desert Horticulture.

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Today's episode discusses pines as suitable landscape trees for the desert, water droplets that are appearing on grape leaves, how to transplant native chollas and wildflowers, why protect cacti from direct sunlight, and where to put a pollenizer tree for a contorted jujube. We will discuss these topics and more on today's Desert Horticulture.

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This late spring series of questions asks how to control grape skeletonizer and flea beetles,  bird damage to grapes, whats causing yellow leaves on bottlebrush and what to do about it, and shade...is it bad or good in the desert? All this and more on these discussions about Desert Horticulture.

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This podcast will explain what a jar test is and how to perform one on your landscape soil. This podcast can be reinforced by visiting my blog, Xtremehorticulture of the Desert. Using a jar test will give a name to your soil that's determined because of its texture, that is, it's percentages of sand, silt and clay. These percentages will help you understand how to irrigate plants growing in them as well is fertilize them.

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Today I will be discussing why non-desert plants start to yellow in a few years after planting, some of the horrible pruning jobs done by landscapers and how it destroys these plants. I will also talk about transplanting Sago Palm, also called cycad, and whether to remove the fronds or not. Finally I'll be discussing how to properly transplant existing rosemary from the landscape into containers. Join me in today's Desert Horticulture.

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