Phoenix Tropicals Gardening

Check out this helpful post on another website to kind of get an idea of chill hours. I get something like an average of 400 chill hours. The calculator for Utah chill seems busted but I think Utah is ...

Goji berries are easy and near impossible to kill once established. I neglect mine and it does fine. Fruit is okay at best, wait until the berries are huge, and they still aren't great. I believe they ...

I have one I got from dato - really small to start and its in partial shade with filtered Afternoon sun. Didn't do much first year, looked like hell after the cold snap, but is now pushing out dark gr ...

Dang! I live in the tuk too, in the middle if a street that slopes nicely and my yard is ten feet higher than my neighbors. I also assumed my house would be warm but two of my guavas- both covered - f ...

Curious - I know you've increased your mulch use, do you still add mag to your loquat or allow mulch breakdown to work?

Just put a little loquat into the ground and was heavily mulched and was curi ...

Not to nit-pick, but coffee grounds are relatively PH neutral. They may be slightly acidic but not enough to really matter. It certainly isn't enough to change the overall PH of native soil/water.
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Also be aware that block walls radiate a lot of heat. Those right against the wall may bake which is sad.

And widen mulch basin as stated above. Just put mulch over the rock, no need to remove the ...

I believe our water will make soil too basic. I've heard of people watering with coffee and adding coffee grounds regularly to keep soil acidic.

Also, I've never done it but I'd like to cut the bo ...