Desert Hawk Books

 

Paperback
168 pages
150 photos
8.5" x 11"

Quantity: $17.95 & S/H

 

Coverage includes:
• Soil preparation
• Planting
• Watering
• Fertilizing
• Pruning
• Harvesting
• Pests and problems
• Special considerations for each month
• Featured plants for each month

Whether you're raising vegetables, nursing citrus trees, or just trying to keep your front yard looking its best, you'll find that this handy book gives you a valuable month-by-month perspective on the year. It helps you to focus on necessary activities and reminds you of simple tasks you might overlook. It's especially valuable for people who've moved to the desert regions from other parts of the country and follow old gardening dates that seldom apply to their new home.

The Desert Gardener's Calendar is a guide to the maintenance you need to do to keep your garden flourishing and your landscape attractive throughout the year. It combines the month-by-month gardening and landscaping activities from two separate books by George Brookbank—Desert Gardening, Fruits and Vegetables and Desert Landscaping—and was created in response to readers who have found the calendar sections of those books especially invaluable. And because not all deserts are the same, Brookbank is careful to point out differences in scheduling encountered by gardeners in low- and middle-elevation regions in California and the Southwest.

"I believe," says the author, "that if you use this calendar and let your judgment become more accurate with experience, you'll soon be doing everything right." Although that might suggest a day when you don't need this book, chances are good that, if you're a desert gardener, right now you do.

George Brookbank formerly an extension agent in urban horticulture for the University of Arizona, is the author of Desert Gardening, Fruits and Vegetables: The Complete Guide and Desert Landscaping: How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest.