Desert Gardening: Fruits and Vegetables
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Book Description
Desert gardening is different!
Wherever you live in the desertup to 3,500-feet elevationthis guide is for you. Enjoy plentiful fruits and vegetables from your desert garden. Desert gardening expert George Brookbank will help you with your desert garden. A tremendous reference tool you'll use all year 'round!
1. Complete how-to-do-it guide
-Drip irrigation & watering
-How to prepare desert soil
-Which plant & tree varieties to choose
-Citrus: Watering, pruning, fertilizing
2. New varieties for favorites:
-Tomatoes Strawberries
-Grapes Melons
And the unusual:
-Low-chill apples
-Oriental Vegetables
-Yard-long beans
New chapters on Hydroponics and Alternatives to Poisonous Chemicals
3. Week-by-week desert calendar:
Learn how to work with the desert's short seasons, hot weather, insects and soils
-When to plant
-When to prune
Great for Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas.
About the Author
Living and working in the desert is a lot different-yet similar-from where George Brookbank started his professional career as an Agricultural Officer in Tanganyika Territory in Africa. A lot of time there was spent figuring out how to protect the crops against monkeys, baboons, pigs and elephants.
Now he's concerned with helping desert gardeners ward off squirrels, rabbits, quail and other birds, javelina and all sorts of other desert critters.
Since 1971 he has been Extension Agent, Urban Horticulture, at the Extension Garden Center of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He provides a widely diversified range of educational services to homeowners, garden clubs, the nursery business and landscape-maintenance companies.
George writes a weekly column for the Tucson Daily Citizen, has a Saturday morning radio show on stations KFLT and KGVY and a weekly television program on Channel 4 KVOA. He has a monthly call-in program on radio station KNST.
His popular weekly demonstrations at the Extension Garden Center and at Green Valley are well attended.
He has written a number of publications and prepared several dozen informational audio and video tapes for gardeners.
The term "hands on" really applies to this author. His formal working life started out when he apprenticed as a General Farm Worker, Lord Rayleigh's Farms, Witham, Essex, England. Horses were the source of farmPower.
George was born in England. His Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture was obtained at Reading University. He subsequently studied at Downing College, Cambridge. Then he attended the Imperial College of Tropical Agricultural in Trinidad, West Indies.
For 13 years he worked in Tanganyika, helping underdeveloped communities pull themselves up by their bootstraps. This required helping them improve their agricultural productivity. He was promoted to Provincial Agricultural Officer and subsequently became Principal of the Natural Resources School in Tengeru, Tanganyika. This was a two-year residential school for African field advisors and their wives.
Our author came to the United States in 1962. He got his Masters Degree in Agricultural Education at California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo, California in 1966. He did graduate study at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University.
For nine years George taught at the Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona where he was Chairman of the Agriculture Department. During three summers he taught citrus husbandry to young farmers from Japan. And he trained unemployed people to become citrus farm hands.
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