Field Notes from a Tucson Garden

Dated observations, soil biology, native perennials, and locally adapted plants from a Tucson home garden.

About Us

I created DesertSoil.com to document what I am learning about gardening, soil, fungi, wildlife, and ecology through personal experiments in Tucson’s Sonoran Desert. By sharing my observations, questions, successes, and failures, I hope to inspire greater curiosity and passion for the desert and the life around us.

Vintage illustration of a desert cottontail sitting among shrubs and cacti in the Sonoran Desert.

About Us

I created DesertSoil.com to document what I am learning about gardening, soil, fungi, wildlife, and ecology through personal experiments in Tucson’s Sonoran Desert. By sharing my observations, questions, successes, and failures, I hope to inspire greater curiosity and passion for the desert and the life around us.

Vintage illustration of a desert cottontail sitting among shrubs and cacti in the Sonoran Desert.

Garden Notes and Journal

I created DesertSoil.com to document what I am learning about gardening, soil, fungi, wildlife, and ecology through personal experiments in Tucson’s Sonoran Desert. By sharing my observations, questions, successes, and failures, I hope to inspire greater curiosity and passion for the desert and the life around us.

Vintage illustration of a desert cottontail sitting among shrubs and cacti in the Sonoran Desert.

Projects

Desert Soil projects explore practical questions about gardening, soil, fungi, wildlife, desert ecology, and water conservation. Many focus on growing productive gardens with less water in Tucson, and this site gives me a place to share their development, discoveries, and lessons over time.

Mature branching cholla cactus surrounded by native Sonoran Desert plants.

Resources

Desert Soil projects explore practical questions about gardening, soil, fungi, wildlife, desert ecology, and water conservation. Many focus on growing productive gardens with less water in Tucson, and this site gives me a place to share their development, discoveries, and lessons over time.

Mature branching cholla cactus surrounded by native Sonoran Desert plants.

Pupfish?

Mature branching cholla cactus surrounded by native Sonoran Desert plants.
Coyote standing among saguaros and prickly pear in the Sonoran Desert.

Photo Gallery

Male Gambel’s quail standing among agave and prickly pear.

Pupfish?

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Greater roadrunner standing among cacti and desert shrubs near Tucson.