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This is the Presentation I made to the Arizona Master Gardeners in March, 2015, on vegetable and herb growing in the Mojave Desert. I intended it as a beginning primer for newcomers to gardening in the desert. If there is a problem downloading this document, email me at [email protected] and I will send it to you.

Traditionally, by the middle of March at around the 2000 foot elevation in southern Nevada, we will have a 90% chance that there will be no more frost. This is normally the date we use for planting warm season vegetables. Strong and vigorous tomato transplant You can usually sneak them in a little earlier if you watch the weather forecasts or give them some protection. Tomatoes are warm season crops and they can suffer from chilling injury. This is damage to the plants if temperatures drop close to the same temperature in your refrigerator. Even a bit higher than this. Hot microclimates in the yard can support please vegetables earlier than the middle of March. So if they are going in a spot that is West or South facing, you can put them in earlier. Watch for temperatures below 50° F. If temperatures are going to drop this low, there is a potential for chilling injury. You can use some hot caps and cover them at night when the sun goes down. White woven crop cover rolled back showing the differencein plant growth a crop cover can make in spring You can use a crop cover and lay it over the top of them. These crop covers will give you an extra 5° F over the lowest temperature during the night. You can throw a light blanket over them if you push in some short stakes to keep the blanket from crushing plants. Or you can buy the plants and leave them in their containers. Put them outside during the day and move them indoors at night. This way you can delay planting them if you think there might be some low temperatures coming.

I will be giving a fruit tree pruning class in 29 Palms, California,  which will cover basic pruning techniques of all major fruit trees that will grow in the Mojave Desert on Saturday, February 31, 2015, from Noon to 4 pm. Open to the public and free of charges. A link for this event can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/1544245095859961/ 2/2/15 – It was a great event and we all had fun. Here are some pictures taken by 29 Palms Inn at the event in the Faultline Garden. Below are the notes for the workshop

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Presentation today at 4:00 p.m. MST by SPLS student Connor Osgood.  See links below for the Webcast. “Intensive Indoor Crop Production” Connor Osgood,  SPLS Student will offer a special presentation at the Controlled Environment Agriculture Building (CEAC) 1951 E. Roger Road Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 4:00 – 5:00 PM “An Internship Completed:  Experiences in the World of Intensive Indoor Crop Production Using Hydroponics and LED Lighting at a Vertical Farm”  The presentation will be webcast at: for attendees without UA ID: http://elluminate.oia.arizona.edu/scheduleMeetingnonetid.php?sessionId=3097228 [please allow a few minutes prior to start of the talk  to prepare the Elluminate software] Contact Dr. Gene Giacomelli, [email protected]  or  Terry Albertson, [email protected] 520/626-9566 for more information Organized and Supported by the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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