Gardening Made Easy – For Moderate to Arid Climates Gardening Made Easy – For Moderate to Arid Climates July 1, 2010 Glen This photo gallery is a fun way to “get your garden on” – even when you live in a desert. Two Paths Will Soon Fill as Plants Spread 4’x8′ Is Easy to Straddle 6 22″ Diameter Cages Fit In a 4’x8′ Plot 136 ft of Row Peas In a Tidy 4’x8′ Plot A Landscape that Makes Light Work for You All Done In the Same Plot and Day As You Seed, So Shall You Thin Bean Crop Is Ready for Harvest Broadcast Carrot Seed and Rake In Cabbage, Chard, Peppers and Onions Cages Keep Kids and Pets Fenced Out Can You See the Carrot Tops? Cherry Tomatoes In a Wire Basket` Close Cropping Gives Big Yields Corn Stalks Become Trellises Dig Carrots as You Need Them Until April Create a Wind Row of Cages In 2×8 Plots Double Crop Corn and Pumpkins Each Plot Takes About 30 Minutes Fertilize and Till In Fall to Compost All Winter Long Fertilize with Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, and Iron in Utah Final Carrot Harvest In April Firm the Plot Sides and Ends Flags Show Plot Watering Points Flowers Add Beauty to Veggies Follow Peas with Bush Beans Get Larger Fruits On Shorter Vines Grass Mulch Holds Weeds Out and Moisture In Grow Vertically In 6in by 7ft Wire Cages Hardiest Plants Go In Earliest Harvest Eat Can Plant More Beans Hearty Beets and Greens Still Good to Eat Late in Season Herb Garden Is Always Up First Herbs Reseed Themselves Herbs Still Good After First Frost High & Dry – No Slugs or Fruit Rot Hill Hold for More Growing Space Removing Insulating Leaves Mulch In Plots Holds a Lot of Moisture Less Water Needed as Plants Mature Level Plot Uniform Watering Look – No Need for Poles or Strings! My 25’x35′ Gardening Area Never Step In the Tilled Soil Parsley, Sage, Basil and Chives Peas Planted 3″ Apart (after image) Peas Planted 3″ Apart will Self-Trellis (before image) Peas Are Up and Out by the End of June Plant Heritage Varieties for Seed Plant Least Hardy Vegetables Last Plots Need 1/20th the Water of Rows Prune Winter Squash Vines Pumpkins Come On Late After Corn Pumpkins with Carrots Underneath Rake Shape a 3in Deep Depression Rhubarb In Blocks Doesn’t Spread Second Bean Crop Is Coming Up Shaped and Ready to Plant Plot Slope Surrounds My Garden Spinach, Cabbage and Chard Great In Chimney Planters Sprinkle Plots ‘Til Seedlings Take Hold Squash Needs 3 to 4 Feet of Spreading Space Stakes Are for Hose Guides Only Thin Carrots with First Weeding Till or Spade a 4×8 Foot Plot Tomato Vines Keep Leaf Blowing Down Use Grass Mulch for Weed Control Use Standard 15 Inch Chimney Block We Dig and Eat Carrots All Winter With 2 Feet of Leaves Carrot’s Don’t Freeze