Thank heavens it does not get that hot up here in the Prescott area. Garden growing would be more akin to the middle west. I came from Indiana and I found that most things that we raised there can be raised here but you do need to condition the soil. I have all raised beds and I fill the bottom with steer manure and then a layer of really good garden soil and then, most recently, added chicken droppings and worked that in to the soil this winter and then I will put another layer of really good garden soil. My garden always does really well and I usually have a lot of beans, okra, onions, radishes, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, cantelope, watermelon, carrots, bell peppers and any other vegetable I might want to try. I do can some but I usually freeze and have enough to last the winter. Don;t have any problems with javelinas although some people have trouble with deer and antelope eating their gardens. Rabbits seem to be the most pest so that is why I raised my garden along with back trouble.Did you bring the plants from Utah? I have a heck of a time with the stuff that my inlaws bring from their house in Texas. Apparently, the plants have to get acclimated to the change in location, and I just don't have time for that, lol. Certain parts of Utah are going to be a lot like Prescott, but they'll still need to be babied, especially through their first summer. I can only grow a few types of succulents, because many of them get sunburned in the middle of summer (I have little shade in my yard) and many are too frost sensitive to make it through the winter. And javelinas!!When I moved into my now house, I ha a bunch of beautiful potted plants. We didn't have our yard fenced in yet, and within the first week, the javelinas had munched all my pots. That was 8 years ago, and I'm still mad! Does it get that hot in Prescott?
