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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

>  I know nothing about desert gardening; what kind of soil do you have?

Desert soil can run to sand, silt, or that most common combination, adobe
with l ittle or no organic material.  When dry the adobe soil is just like
it sounds, very hard and almost impossible to work.  To hand dig a trench
requires a pick and lots of sweat or a jackhammer.  When wet it is easy to
dig but comes out as clumps that dry to rock hard clods.  I did all my
digging in winter after the rains because it was cooler and the ground was
workable.

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html