Raise your ✋🏽 if you are going to plant something tomorrow ... 🙋🏾♀️ I've been here (in the 🏜) for 4 years and gardening here is soooooooooooo different from my New Jersey 🏡. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Arizona growing.
I live in the CA high desert. Your videos have been the most relevant in my gardening journey. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep up the great content! 🌵☀️
I noticed in your Garden Tour you have a huge passion fruit vine! I just bought 3 tiny (3") passion fruit seedlings and was debating when/where to plant them. I didn't have confidence that they would survive our Phoenix summers, but you give me hope!
I'm a new gardener and planning on raised beds this season. I hope to be able to grow many vegetables and beautiful flowers such as you have in your garden. I'm zone 9 in Texas so lots of helpful tips you have offered. Thank you!
Hey! Did you do it? I'm in Houston, so I assume we're in similar areas. Angela's videos are the best for me, although she's in a dry climate and all we deal with in Houston is fungus, fungus, fungus!
Hi! Yes, I have raised beds and have grown some vegetables and even melons, watermelons. Still a learning process for me though on timing, fertilizing and watering. I struggle with carrots, onions. I try to plant only what I really need. Best of luck, just try it and start small.
You are such an inspiration. I am planning on putting many of your suggestions into practice. Noticed in the video your beautiful and thriving bay laurel and would like to know if you had any growing tips. I have one in a pot and it has never been very happy.
I have two plants that are in a more shady area and they grow slowly but well. I would try putting yours in the ground or a larger container if possible.
Thanks for sharing with us dear Angela you spend beautiful time with planting In end of August am traveling to southern Iraq it's like Arizona in hot summer need to take with me flowers tree that grows in your area What you suggest and I know now I should piece with wood before spring time not in August
Your garden is absolutely beautiful and everything looks so healthy and loved. I am going to build my first raised bed and want to know what wood you used and would recommend. I noticed yours are higher than the sq ft gardner recommendations. I want mine to be higher so I am not kneeling so much. I also find it hard to believe that plants don't require a minimum of 12 in and best with about 18 inches of soil.
12-18 inches tall is ideal. I started with the 6 inch beds but had better luck with deeper beds. I recommend these I use the metal raised beds from Garden in Minutes shrsl.com/3yano As my wooden beds need replacing. This is what I'm using. (Use code Angela10 to save $10 off $100 or GITG5 to save 5 percent on any size order)
We just moved to Chandler. Don't have much time to get set up with raised gardens, etc. We do have lots, lots of them with veggies and herbs. Will be using a 3" by 15" sectioned off area of the yard for a veggie garden. Your videos are amazing!!! Thank you so much!!! 🌱🌾🌿🍃🍀🌳☘️🌻🍋🍓🍎🍑🍉🥦🌽🥬🥒🍅🍠🥕. Next year will be so much fun extending our garden space. We have a lemon 🍋 tree but it is a mess right now. We are nursing it back to health.
Beautiful varieties veggies and flowers 😍❤️I love all the fruit tree but we don’t have much space for it. Just veggies for now 😜Beautiful Garden organized ❤️Thanks
So, glad I stumbled your videos. I'm in Avondale & have been hesitant about getting our garden started. You have encouraged me to jump in & get it started.
Hi Angela! I stumbled across your website while searching online and I am so excited that you have a RU-vid as well! Saved your website as a favorite and subscribed! You have been SO helpful! Thank you!!
Hello! I'm from Phoenix and I'm happy to be using your raised bed mix in my new beds. I also have a Rachio timer and I love it. Question for you, I have my three 4x8 beds on the same zone and use Rachios smart scheduling for vegetables on that zone. They are getting about 60 minutes of watering every 5 days right now, would you say this is adequate? I think this would be about 1.5" of water in each bed during each watering. Thank you for doing these videos, I'm excited to add Malabar and Roselle to my garden this year.
Hello from Gilbert! Your videos have been so helpful and inspiring. We're planning on a couple large raised planters in our backyard. Whats the best and safest way to kill off bermuda grass before we lay the landscaping cloth down? The hubby is talking Roundup!?!?
Laying down a permeable landscape cloth will keep the bermuda at bay. Adding a layer of cardboard and woodchips on top will help too. No need to spray.
Your garden is so gorgeous!😍 I would not have believed it possible to grow nearly any of those things here in AZ until seeing this video! You’re my new hero🤍 Were new to Arizona, and last summer killed nearly all of our established plants. I’m thinking this summer might well finish them off if we don’t figure out what’s going wrong. I’m wondering if we have salty soil adding to the problem. Any recommendations for fixing salty soil around already established shrubs and trees?
Nice information Angela! Do you have any problem with your in bed drip clogging up from the calcium in our water? Do you use a filter to remove chlorine? Thanks!
I haven't. I've had some of the grids for many years and they are still holding up very well. I did notice when I used soaker hoses they would get clogged up quickly. I don't use a filter for the chlorine. I haven't found one I'm thrilled about yet. Thanks for watching.
Also be aware that there are multiple grape species. In AZ like CA, probably the Eurasian one is grown. In the NE and Midwest, usually fox grapes (Concord type) and fox-riparia-European are grown. In TX, various wild grapes and in the wetter east, muscadines, are grown. In the Deep South, muscadines are almost the only successful species due to Pierce's Disease. They are very different (giant, thick skinned berries in small clusters, ripen individually, leaves too small for dolmas, won't hybridize with the others, don't taste like the others [supposedly they taste like jaboticabas from Brazil, but I wouldn't know]). So it depends on your climate (--> grape species).
Hello i live in Laughlin NV , not to far from Arizona and i have my garden also ,i will like to know the way you have the irrigación sistema you have a video let me know please, thank you for yours videos i love it...
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X3T4-2gcOUA.html and this blogpost as well: growinginthegarden.com/best-way-to-water-raised-bed-gardens/
Did you hire a plumber to install the Rachio watering system? I'm interested in purchasing the unit so all my plants get watered properly during the summer. Thank you for your time.
ahhh those foxgloves are SO pretty, i keep meaning to pick some up i absolutely adore them Also, how do you grow bee balm? is there a specific pvariety more suited to Arizona? theyre perennials but i hear they dont like long hot summers and short mild winters, so do you just grow them as annuals?
You might want to try Monardella species, which are native to the dry West, rather than the (wet, fairly cold) east and Midwest like most beebalms (Monarda). Unfortunately, you might need to find a Western native wildflower nursery to buy them, as they are not well known west of the Rockies (and probably intolerant of our summer rains). Monarda citriodora ("lemon mint") is an annual but supposedly from the SW. Agastache and Savia microphylla (edible flowers, foliage used in herbal tea, doesn't taste like culinary sage) should also serve as showy-bloomed herbs that do well in the SW. Salvia ballotaefolia (mejorana) from Texas would be more like culinary sage (though the Spanish name implies majorram). Salvia greggii blooms like crazy, but I think only the flowers are edible. Unfortunately it hybridizes easily with S. microphylla, so it can be unclear whether littleleaf sage (S. microphylla) cultivars are pure and palatable. I find S. greggii foliage more like a skunkier sagebrush than something to be eaten.
Just planted my first garden with my girlfriend, this was so helpful. We have dogs so unfortunately we can’t plant food because they would eat them, any tips on just making the garden look nice? Any help would be appreciated!
Citrus grows so well here and does well in containers too. Pineapple guava and figs also grow well in containers. growinginthegarden.com/arizona-fruit-planting-guide-a-visual-guide-for-low-desert-fruit/
Can cherry blossom trees be planted here in Phoenix? I haven’t seen any around our area, but love the flowers and wondering if they’ll do okay. Thank you!
Hi! I’m new to gardening in Phoenix. I have a question. I still have my last years tomato plants ( and pepper) in my garden beds, they are not really producing a lot of fruits or flowers right now. Should I take them out and plant new ones? Thank you for your answer!
Dude I love your channel, your videos are really funny and informative. At least for me, making your own raised bed mix is cheaper and a better option because you can add whatever YOU need. I live in SoCal and I just use straight up compost and mulch heavily then add other amendments if they're needed based on the plants. (I only water twice a week even in 110°+ weather)
in scottsdale arizona in raised garden bed, 20 inch deep. how often do we water is their a chart. should we water march thru may31 4 days a week? 5 min?. the june thru sept everyday? and day or night? i was thinking day and nte fpr 5 min? thank you
Depends on your soil and beds - As temps heat up I go from once a week to as often as every other day when it is very hot and dry. Monitor your soil as temps heat up or cool down. Water long enough to water the depth of the soil and let the top few inches dry out before watering again.
I have a Desert Gold and a Florida Prince. Love them both: Here's a guide from my blog with fruit types that grow well here: growinginthegarden.com/arizona-fruit-planting-guide-a-visual-guide-for-low-desert-fruit/
I live in Chandler. I am wondering if I can plant the rooted sweet potato slips in the growing bag (permanent location) now.. I still see upper 40s and in 50s in night.. will they survive?
What is your watering schedule for your raised bedsI am using the brown spaghetti drip lines 6 inch Admitters it’s not ideal but it’s what I have to work with just need an idea of a watering schedule
Those in line emitters work well. Right now I'm watering my raised beds once a week for between 5-10 minutes (Different areas of my garden have different water pressure and some need longer or less time) My watering grids water very quickly. Drip emitters usually need to be on for much longer. Try to penetrate the entire area between the emitters each time you water.
Most fruit trees (other than citrus) do best in the ground. I would look for a dwarf variety if you can. You can keep it trained somewhat by pruning, but it would be happier in the ground.
Apples have many rootstocks. EMLA-27, EMLA-26, and Budagovsky-9 will keep apple trees small, unfortunately by having stunted root systems (which means irrigation and weed control become important).
How can you tell the difference between a lemon tree and a lime tree? My family moved into a new house in August that has what we were told was a lime tree. But the fruit we left on the tree turned yellow, and the buds on it now look exactly like your lemon tree... Any advice?
i am in southern california. Is it ok for me to prune my abutilon chinese lantern tree? It is like 8 foot tall but does not have many branches. thank you.
Hi Shawn, I'm still here. I had a son get married and I'm working on a new project that's taking a lot of my time. Details coming soon. Thanks for your concern. I'll get back to regular posting on Fridays soon!
