Originally Posted By: SirTanon
I live in Phoenix, where it's been topping 110 degrees multiple days each week for months.. my garden is a dry, crispy graveyard.
I am, however, hoping to clean that up and start with some new plants in about a month. Hopefully, if we don't get a frost, it will last until May.
People back east don't understand the concept of rushing out to harvest the tomatoes in mid-June before they stew on the vine. I thought Phoenix was pretty challenging. You basically have two relatively short growing seasons. The early March to early June growing season, and then a fall season, with just enough cold weather to kill everything with frost by mid-December.
The bug pressure at least was pretty light.
It must be similar to Australia as described above. I had an entire hedge of Rosemary. Going out on a warm summer morning to trim the hedge, then raking up $1,500 worth of spices from your yard is a not-to-be-missed gardening experience.
Wish I had grown figs. Arizona is fig heaven and some of them produce two crops a year.