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Nourish Your Little Piece of the Desert with Rainwater Harvesting

Nourish Your Little Piece of the Desert with Rainwater Harvesting

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Pamela Powers
Mar 02, 2010
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1933 Territorial style burnt adobe.

1933 Territorial style burnt adobe.

Five years ago I bought a 740-square-foot dump in midtown Tucson with a large yard full of goat head burrs and Bermuda Grass. Maybe I was a victim of too many episodes of HGTV design shows, but my plan was to transform this territorial adobe into a cute little home with a yard full of desert-friendly plants, fruit tre…

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