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Melissa- The Desert Smells Like Veggies
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Just a girl trying to grow veggies in a hotter, drier world. Master gardener in the Phoenix area. Seed saver, wild food forager, veggie and flower grower.
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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Broccoli harvest as big as my head.

#garden #phoenixgardener
February 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).
February 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just a few hundredths of an inch but we will take it. 159 days with no rain in the hottest year on record. The desert is struggling.
January 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Quick #garden check in while trying to remain positive.
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Veggies are my jam.
January 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My office view…. Head down and #garden on. Just know that I’m also plotting the revolution as I do so.
January 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM