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Posted on: 1st Oct 2014
Summer in the desert can be tough on plants...and man if you want to feel sorry for yourself.
For the past several years no flowering plants existed in our flower beds. Weeds wouldn't even venture out. I't was just too darn hot and no one had the time or inclination to carefor plants or gardens of any kind.
This year however, we planted flowers and vegetables during the cooler winter months hoping they would produce in early summer.
This year however, we planted flowers and vegetables during the cooler winter months hoping they would produce in early summer.
Then we added petunias, vincas and euryops to fill in around the planter and the vegetables. The petunias lasted until the end of June and the heat was just too much for them.
The vincas and euryops lasted through the summer and gave us a great bed of color all during the 112 degree summer.
(I heard a reporter say the other day that our average temperature this year was only 103 degrees...Maybe I stretched the truth a bit with 112...sorry).
I tried some hollyhocks. Both black and red bud variants were available. The red one took to the heat very well and grew strong and flowered.
The vincas and euryops lasted through the summer and gave us a great bed of color all during the 112 degree summer.
(I heard a reporter say the other day that our average temperature this year was only 103 degrees...Maybe I stretched the truth a bit with 112...sorry).
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The vegetables on the other hand, carrots, radishes, tomatoes were each planted from seeds behind the flowers. Big mistake. Too much shade.
The flowers grew so well and received so much water so they could with stand the heat. They grew large and tall and wide and fat, and they grew up eventually blocking all the vital sunshine the vegetables needed to fill out and produce viable product to eat.
The flowers grew so well and received so much water so they could with stand the heat. They grew large and tall and wide and fat, and they grew up eventually blocking all the vital sunshine the vegetables needed to fill out and produce viable product to eat.
What's a guy to do when you just have a planter to work with and not a farmers field.
I tried some hollyhocks. Both black and red bud variants were available. The red one took to the heat very well and grew strong and flowered.
And, well, the black hollyhock variety just could not find of good life here and passed away within a couple months. Sad.
There are not a lot of gardening choices in the desert except cactus and palaverdi trees. Some growers have many new summer plant options available if you have the energy to learn all the ins and outs of what is required to keep them alive and well during the hotter periods of the year.
To be able to enjoy a colorful flowering garden all summer in the desert southwest takes a little planning. It's called - a little commitment to tend your plants at least every other day.
Keeping a lovely garden during the winter months is easy, but the summer...you just gotta make that little extra commitment.
Keep the buds smiling.
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