April 2016 Mesa Arizona Garden Update

Tips, Tricks

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See my front yard garden, indoor microgreens starts, and the backdoor garden! I'm an absolute beginner and I welcome advice. Let me know all of your amazing wisdom, especially if you live in my area and are experienced growing stuff here in the Valley of the Sun! If you're looking for someone in this area who actually knows what they're doing, go check out Jake Mace's VeganAthlete YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/VeganAthlete/featured Jake Mace is based in Tempe and I so appreciate all the videos and tips he's shared. When I said in the video here that I was "armed with good information", it was mostly from watching him and taking an amazingly inspiring garden tour at his Tempe home. Check out my Instagram to see Duncan's story: KathyCanuel My Etsy: www.kathycanuel.etsy.com SDG Creations on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SDG-Creations-92145688219/

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I have absolutely no clue on the pest you have over there. I am in South Australia. But I would be looking for small slugs and weevils beetles. Both come out at night and do a lot of damage.
I grow Pyrethrum around fruit trees. I also use seasol which is a seaweed product that conditions soil and strengthens plans against some insect attacks.
One other thing I would recommend is mulch. We have stinking summers here mid 30s to 40s that's Celsius. Around and above the hundred mark for Fahrenheit. You might want to protect your plants that grow along the wall. I have to shade my currants that I grow on a fence, they just fry if I don't shade them and the fence from radiant heat. I drape little bits of shade cloth and old net curtains over everything if we are getting extreme heat too.
Hope some of that helps. :)
This is my blog if you want to have a look at some of my gardening ideas. I am just an amateur myself. http://rosewinsgarden.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Garden