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Greenhouse Nursery Fail to Functional Home Produce: Gardening the Arizona High Desert
My brand-new Mueller greenhouse melted — literally. Gardening in Arizona's high desert at 2,850' means brutal summer heat and hard freezes in winter, and I learned that the hard way when 100° temps hit before I got the shade cloth up. In this post, I'm sharing why my backyard nursery dream failed, what Arizona's drought and water rates are doing to local gardeners, and how we're turning this greenhouse into a working evaporative-cooled growing system for fall. Join us live on
Charise Gardner
Aug 242 min read
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