Desert Gardening (Brookbank)

This book is my bible to gardening here in Tucson Arizona. It provides all the necessary information to be successful. I use it so much that I wore out my first copy. If you are growing vegetables or fruit trees in the hotter climates of Arizona, I highly recommend this publication.

live in a desert? want to grow your own garden? get this book :)

Everything else I've read on desert garneding is junk. George actually lived here. He actually answered the phone at the extension service, etc. I've grown stuff I never would have tried. When something dies unexpectedly, I usually find out what I should have done in this book. Buy it first.

The most practical and helpful garden book I have found for planting in the desert. The calendar for planting and caring for the garden is also very helpful.

I am so glad I found Desert Gardening. I have tried for years to grow vegetables organically here in Decatur, Texas (about eighty miles northwest of Dallas, Texas). Firstly let me tell you that Desert Gardening is not an organic gardening book, but it has helped me anyway--I'll explain more on that later. I began trying to garden here by looking at the "standard gardening advice" in books I found at the local public library and bookstores, asking for help at the local gardening centers, and reading the backs of seed packages for instructions on how to plant them. At the gardening centers, I found that they wanted to load me up with chemicals, and if I didn't want chemicals they would offer me some weird, expensive organic soil amendments but they couldn't tell me the first thing about what they were for or how to use them. They also never seemed to have seeds, seedlings and trees for sale at the time of year I needed them. The books at my public library and bookstores were compl... Read more