Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert, and Dry Times: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening without Wasting Water

This is the book I've been looking for! For a long time! It has very practical information for fertilizers how and when to fertilize, preparing the ground/container, when to plant and other issues associated with desert vegetable gardening. Highly recommend it.

Daughter using it in Arizona.

For a while now I’ve been thinking of writing a gardening book because none of the books I’ve read, and I’ve read hundreds, cover not only how to garden in my climate, but why things happen and what you can do about it. Don’t get me wrong books by Mary Irish, and Sunset will always have a place on my shelves, and I can think of a half a dozen other authors that have helped me garden, but this is the book I will be giving friends in the future who want to garden. Divided into two parts. Conditions and. Practice, in 200 odd pages you have a clear understanding of gardening In a hot dry climate, with plant suggestions and a current resource list. It my hope Ms Gilmer writes an equally clear books on fruits, herbs, and ornamentals. I’ll be happy to purchase.

I found this book a nice balance between covering (reviewing) basics while introducing more detailed/in-depth gardening methods. Slight focus on CA habitats over other states (though many things apply to AZ, NM, UT+ (certainly US focused as other reviews warned. Well-written and aesthetically pleasing. Wish there was a 2nd volume!

Excellent book. I highly recommend it. I was accustomed to having a vegetable and fruit garden in ohio, and now that I reside in Arizona, I needed help. This book is providing it.

Loving this book! I live in the desert and this book is helping me accept that I won’t ever have a forest in my yard.

Save your money. I will summarize. Use drip irrigation, plant in season, and choose drought resistant varieties. The end. Other than some gratuitous mention of Native Americans' waffle gardens, the effect of wind, the use of enclosed earth boxes or shade cloth, this book states that hand watering and moving hoses "gets old". Garden design includes raised beds and reminding you to include space for your irrigation system. I will look elsewhere for radical techniques or even examination of other countries and people that are successfully farming in desert and drought.

This is a great book covers microclimates high/low desert, growing methods, historic and new and growing seasons which are very different in a desert application.

Very good book, easy to read and understand. I live in Spain so very pertinent for my garden. Only one other comment, it would be so useful to have this book adapted for the European areas, as we are getting hotter and receiving much less rain than a few years ago.

This is one of the best written books I have encountered for garden water saving with great explanations and ideas. These can be applied throughout the world even though the content is primarily American. Congratulations m gilmer