I know I have to cover the plants with mulch in the winter but what about doing other things like watering and adding fertilizers? also does anyone have any other useful tips?

All you have to do is use enough mulch to keep the soil and roots from freezing. The tops will probably die back one way or the other, but new plants will grow in the spring. You don’t have to worry about fertilizer or water until the new growth starts next spring.

I want to plant a garden but idk how to start. I live in Az and the dirt is really dry here. Where shld i start and what steps do i have to take to plant herbs and flowers and stuff in terms of compost and fertilizer and mulching uh there is so much stuff! any tips or good products to use?

Dowlingg has good tips, but in Arizona you will likely need at least 6 inches of mulch to:
1) Keep the soil wet during the hot, dry days.
2) keep the roots from burning and killing the plant.

You might want to put the garden that gets 100% shade all day, or only 2 hours of sunlight. It’s already plenty hot and dry down there.

Also, it might be illegal to use city water to irrigate your garden. You might have to get a rain barrel. Contact a lawyer or ask some neighbors how they water their gardens.

There are not many veggie plants like prefer hot, dry conditions. Most of those like moist conditions, not too hot.

any nurse or e.r. tech out there that can tell me? My son got his finger tips into a mulching lawn mower and it pulverized 1/4 inch of the bone to his ring finger (doctor’s statement- bone was saw dust) and his middle finger lost 1/8 of the bone. The skin of his finger tips were laid open down to the first knuckle and the bone and tendons exposed. They called an orthopedic doctor who consulted via telephone and told the er doc to stitch him up best he could and he would see him in his office when he returned – in 4 days! The doctor who stitched him then made a comment "this is like sewing up a jigsaw puzzle". so all the statements he kept making didn’t make us feel very good. I asked the e.r. doc… so basically he has floppy finger tips? I mean, why don’t you guys just remove them and sew up some healthy skin because I don’t see this ending in any other way but surgery to remove the bone to the first knuckle and healthy skin to cover it".

He just did his sewing and sent my son home. I changed his bandages today, per doctor instruction. OMG is all I can say. His finger’s look horrid. Lumpy, bumpy, and white (which I guess could be from moisture).

Anyway, our hospital is notorious for screwing things up and I am just wondering if it would be a good idea to take him to a better hospital E.R. in the city.

I KNOW YOU CANT DIAGNOSE. I am just asking if you work in an ER is it pretty standard to send someone home that you know is going to lose an extremity?

thanks

Docs sometimes hold off on final fixes for "dirty" wounds until the patient has been on antibiotics for X number of days, just to make sure that any infection is nipped in the bud. It does no good to do the fine work of salvaging what is left of soft tissue and bone if it only ends badly because of infection. But I would question whether an orthopedic or a plastic surgeon would be the better one to do this final fix. If you have a good family practitioner, discuss this matter with him/her and get another (educated) opinion.