Contact Trees for Tucson 791-3109 and see for recommended tree and understory plant lists. Start thinking about neighborhood street and shade tree planting programs. Plant garlic, carrots, onions, parsley, peas, cilantro, radishes, sweet peas, beets, broccoli, cabbage, Chinese cabbage and celery, turnips, garbanzos, lentils, desert chia, rutabaga, artichoke, and nasturtiums Plant most greens such as spinach, lettuce, chard, collards, kale, mustard greens, etc. Set out transplants of broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower Wildlands Restoration is a great source for native Sonoran desert wildflower and restoration seed (Spadefoot Nursery and Native Seeds/SEARCH sell their seed).ĭirect seed cucumbers and bush beans late in the month With the first good summer rain, plant seed of native perennial plants within or beside water-harvesting earthworks, especially coyote gourds. Hand pollinate squash and melon flowers in the early morning or increase pollinator habitat and they’ll do the work for you If you want, some folks now prune their tomato plants by 2/3 Start tomatoes, peppers, eggplants inside With the monsoon rains plant tepary beans, devil’s claw, corn, purslane Make sure you have covered the soil with mulch to retain moisture and reduce plant stress Plant heat tolerant veggies: Lima beans, eggplants, peanuts, peppers, sweet potatoesĬover tomatoes with shade cloth or perhaps you have grown some shade Warm-to-hot-season greens such as amaranth, purslane, lambsquarters, Malabar spinach, and Yakina Savoy lettuce can be sown now and grown through summer - all will appreciate afternoon shade from a tall trellis, native mesquite tree, or sunflowers to the west. Plant summer bulbs – caladium, anna, dahlia, glads, iris Still not too late to plant pumpkins, cantelopes, squash Plant okra, asparagus, beans, cherry tomatoes, sunflowers, amaranth, cucumber, eggplant, melons, Lima beans, black-eyed peas, cane sorghum, chilies, chiltepines, cotton, gourds, indigo, panic grass, teosinte, tobacco, tomatillos, muskmelon The squash or melons take advantage of the shade and nitrogen while creating a living-mulch over the ground to protect the soil. The beans fix nitrogen in the soil and grow up the corn. If planting corn consider the traditional “three sisters” arrangement of corn, beans, and squash or melons together. You may want to sow tall plants such as sunflowers and amaranth on the west side of your plot to screen other plants from the hot afternoon sun. Plant such annuals as marigolds to add color and deter pests from garden Mulch trees, shrubs, and vegetables (will retain moisture and lessen stress on plants as temperatures warm up Plant basil, squash, sweet corn, Lima beans, snap beans, cantaloupes, watermelonĪfter danger of frost you can plant Lima beans, black-eyed peas, cane sorghum, chilies, chiltepines, cotton, gourds, indigo, panic grass, teosinte, tobacco, tomatillos Set out transplants of tomatoes and peppers Last sowing of carrots, beets, and heat tolerant leaf lettuce If the native velvet mesquite trees are leafing out that, too, is a good sign that we will now be frost free until fall. March 15 is traditionally the last day of frost. Plant bush beans, cucumbers, squash, dill, chard, and sweet corn late in the month Plant beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, Chinese celery, cilantro, collard, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard green, onion sets, pea, radish, spinach, Swiss chard, turnip, Jerusalem artichoke Sow beets, lettuce, carrots, parsley, peas, radishes, spinach, turnips, onions, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, kale, Chinese cabbage, Chinese celery, cilantro, collards, leeks, mustard greens, Swiss chard Let’s grow this list and our knowledge as we grow our gardens - and then share the abundance! Please experiment and let us know if you have any improvements. It is compiled from Desert Harvest, Tucson Organic Gardeners’ Composter newsletter, Native Seeds/SEARCH planting chart, conversations with Tucson gardeners, and my own experience. This is a month-by-month planting guide for food plants in the Tucson area, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora Mexico… Garden-planting calendar for Tucson and the Sonoran Desert Multi-Use Plant Lists & Nurseries for Water-Harvesting Landscapes, Goats, & Chickens.Garden-Planting Calendar for Tucson and the Sonoran Desert.
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