Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I don t leave in Texas but I am in Phoenix Az....this year I built 4 beds 20" wide by 15' long 2 blocks high ....our soil is hard as a rock with lots of clay so we decided to fill our boxes with compost,mulch and sand. We installed the water pipe the mittleider way and we water each bed about 2minutes each morning and evening. We covered our garden with a big canopy frame that we purchased from a supplier for fleamarket tents and we covered completely with a net because we have hundreds of hungry birds. On top of the frame we Also put in june a black shade cloth and today August 10 we have 15 tomatoes plants eggplants Swiss hard carrots basil zucchini honeydew muskmelons watermelons bell peppers and sweet potatoes growing really well. We have an average of 110/115 weather and I am amazed how well everything is still growing. My only problem is that it is time to prepare for the fall planting and because everything is still going well I don have room for the new planting....I guess I will build more beds =).

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Steven Bastian <sbastian123@...> wrote:
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> Jim,
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> Got any Masters in Texas that can show us how to grown tomatoes in the 110
> degree heat?
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> Steve B.
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