Desert Gardening: Fruits & Vegetables

The Complete Guide

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By George Brookbank

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$22.99

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$28.99 CAD

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Trade Paperback $22.99 $28.99 CAD

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An illustrated guide to growing plentiful fruits and vegetables in the driest of American climates

Wherever you live in the desert–up to 3,500-feet elevation–this guide is for you. Enjoy plentiful fruits and vegetables from your desert garden. Desert gardening expert George Brookbank will help you with your desert garden.

Two books in one . . . A tremendous reference tool you’ll use all year ’round!

1. Complete how-to-do-it guide
–Drip irrigation and watering
–How to prepare desert soil
–Which plant and tree varieties to choose
–Citrus: Watering, pruning, fertilizing
–New varieties for favorites: tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, melons
And the unusual . . .
Low-chill apples
Oriental vegetables
Yard-long beans
–New chapters on hydroponics and alternatives to poisonous chemicals

2. Week-by-week desert calendar
–Learn how to work with the desert’s short seasons, hot weather, insects, and soils
–When to plant
–When to prune

Over 650 photographs

Great for Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas!

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On Sale
Apr 22, 1991
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9781555610029

George Brookbank

About the Author

George Brookbank started his professional career as an Agricultural Officer in Tanganyika Territory in Africa. Since 1971 he has been Extension Agent, Urban Horticulture, at the Extension Garden Center of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He writes a weekly column for the Tucson Daily Citizen, has a Saturday morning radio show on stations KFLT and KGVY and a weekly television program on Channel 4 KVOA, and has a monthly call-in program on radio station KNST.

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