Designing Your Ideal Garden When designing your ideal garden you will want to include the story of you! Design for what you would like to eat, the activities you like to do, and the look and feel of the garden. You can check out some of the different styles of […]

Winter Gardening Starts with the Sun The most important factor to keep in mind when preparing for a winter garden is aligning with the sun orientation. The winter orientation is more extreme in how things flow. 1. Get a copy of a satellite image of your house and orient it […]

3 Options to Grow Elegant Edibles for Sustainability You can elegantly grow edibles right in your yard. There are multiple options to create sustainability such as raised beds, container gardening, and wall beds to name a few. 1. Raised bed allow you to control the soil so that you can […]

Sustainability with Subterranean Trampoline Gardens One of our biggest requests is for a Subterranean Trampoline Garden to be installed. Why you ask? It is unique, fun, and can be enjoyed year round in the Desert climate. It like a little secret oasis hidden right in your back yard. These trampoline […]

The Importance of Soil Part 2 Last week we discussed knowing your soil and knowing what minerals to add. Today we will continue discussing the importance of your soil and what you need to know. Feed Soil Organic MaterialOther organic amendments – including compost and wood chips – will add […]

The Importance of Soil Part 1 It’s been said that every good vegetable gardener should be a soil gardener first, yet many of them treat their soil like dirt. As the hungriest part of any garden, soil must be constantly fed and repaired each season in order to be healthy […]

Microclimates Relationship to Plants *By Cindy Dixon Over the past decade, Agriscaping has studied the relationships between microclimates found on properties and the growth of plants. They have created Micro-Climate Technology. This technology helps gardeners grow anywhere…Indoor, Outdoors, Full sun, or Full Shade. Agriscaping established 6 basic microclimate categories, indicated […]

What Are Microclimates? *By Cindy Dixon When planning a garden, most people rely on the USDA/Sunset Plant Hardiness Zone maps or seed packets. These sources help growers determine which plants will grow in their geographic location. Hardiness zones indicate how well a plant will survive in a variety of growing […]

How To Garden in Microclimates The Sun shifts in its arc around the earth at different times of the year. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere we are moving into the Fall Equinox right now. This means the sun isn’t at its extreme like it is in the Summer […]

Helpful Tips for Growing in the Fall When planting starts you want to make sure you don’t shade them – give them as much sunlight as possible. A key to planting starts is that you want to grow the tallest plants nearest the wall. For example, you want to plant […]