Grow foodin theDesert.
I’m Anna—Arizona Zen Garden. I share practical gardening tips: square-foot gardening with a twist, seed starting, seed saving, and propagating everything. I grow all of it in the Arizona desert, with nine cats supervising.
200k+ gardeners follow along on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook.
Seeds. Dirt. Today. That’s the whole plan.
My book
Cardboard to Harvest
How I turned cardboard, patience, and desert dirt into the garden I have now. My story, my methods, and everything I wish someone had told me when I started.
Get the book on Amazon 
Plan your garden month by month.
Keep planting on time with my Low Desert Planting Calendar paperback, what to plant every month for vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit in zones 9 and 10.
October 12 to November 10, 2026
30 Days of Planting Seeds
One planting a day for 30 days in my Arizona garden, zones 9 and 10. Every day starts from seed, no seedlings. Save the checklist, plant along with me, and catch each day's planting on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Long press the checklist to save it to your photos.
Growing in a different zone? Type GROW on any of my daily videos and I will send you what you can plant where you live.
Free downloads
Four free guides from my garden.
Coloring books
Color my garden, my friends’ harvests, and Foose the goose.
Foose the Porch Goose, Fall Adventure ↗eBooks
My books on Kindle.
Never miss what to plant — get my monthly low-desert planting reminder by email.
About me Rooted in the low desert. Square-foot gardening with a twist, seed saving, propagating—and nine cats supervising. Read my story Close story
On Instagram and TikTok, I teach practical low-desert gardening—from preparing soil and creating shade to setting up irrigation, saving seeds, and knowing what to plant each month. My goal is to help gardeners work with the desert climate and turn arid spaces into productive vegetable gardens.
Before I pursued gardening as my passion, I spent 25 years as a banker. That chapter taught me patience, planning, and the value of small choices made consistently—lessons I now bring to every garden bed.
As a wife, mom, and grandmother, I believe a garden can bring generations together. Growing food is practical, but it can also be mindful and therapeutic: a place to slow down, learn, and care for something living.
Garden merch for plant people.
Fun garden shirts inspired by seed hoarding, desert growing, and the beautifully organized chaos of a garden in full swing.
The Azzengarden merch store is live—shop all four tees on Amazon now.
The Seed Hoarder mug ↗
Raised beds from my garden
Grow with Vego Garden.
I use raised beds to make warm-climate gardening easier to tend, organize, and fill with the vegetables, herbs, and flowers I love. The metal arch trellis shown between my beds gives climbing plants room to grow upward and turns the pathway into a green garden tunnel.
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Book a 1 hour garden consult, $200, Phoenix area, or a virtual garden call. Email me and we will set it up.
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From my
garden.
Food and flowers growing together—broccoli beside blooms, herbs tucked into every open space, and a garden that never worries about perfect rows.
“The desert doesn’t ask for perfection. It asks you to learn its rhythm.”
Anna · Arizona Zen Garden