Salsa Gardens

 


Plant a salsa garden for southwestern flavor! Make a list your ingredients - pear tomatoes (better for sauces), chile peppers, onions, garlic and herbs like cilantro - and then check your planting calendar. In some parts of Arizona (especially the low desert), cilantro is a "cool-season crop" whereas chile peppers grow best in the summertime heat.

Have you ever explored how many types of hot chiles there are? You could even have a "Hot! Hot! Hot!" Garden with different varieties of peppers.