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The Painted Season

October 25, 2016 By Cathy Babcock 728 Comments

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Ice House Canyon in the Pinal Mountains south of Globe, Arizona. October 23, 2016

The low desert areas have two planting seasons for most plants, including vegetable: fall and Spring. Fall is a wonderful time to be planting trees and shrubs that are not frost tender. The soil is still warm, the temperature has mitigated to tolerable and it’s just downright pleasant to be outside. One can consider the seasons somewhat reversed here. Back East, people can hardly wait for winter to be over so they can go out to the nursery or shop on-line for their bulb and Hostas in the spring and get their hands in the dirt. In Phoenix and surrounds, we count the weeks for summer to be over and fall to arrive for exactly the same reason, plus it means our tap water won’t be hot! [Read more…]

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