Letter-size cheat sheets
8.5 × 11 in · 1 page each · print at 100%
Cheat 1 of 6 · Calendar
Master Multi-Crop Calendar
12-month × 6-family at-a-glance — peppers, grapes, brassicas, alliums, greens, roots/orchard. Distilled from Guide 1 §9. Circle the current month with a marker; read across for simultaneous work, read down for one family through the year.
Cheat 2 of 6 · Varieties
Variety Picks for the Dragoons
The named varieties worth planting first in Cochise County — peppers, tomatoes, brassicas, alliums, beans, corn, grapes, fruit trees. Each one with its growing window, source (Native Seeds/SEARCH, Baker Creek, etc.), and the one-sentence reason it’s on the list.
Cheat 3 of 6 · Hydroponic
Masterblend Feeding Chart
Per-gallon dosing for the full Masterblend program — peppers and tomatoes across the four growth stages (seedling, vegetative, pre-bloom/flowering, fruiting). Mixing order, EC and pH targets, the local-tip on scales. Distilled from Guide 4 Part 1.
Cheat 4 of 6 · Water
Water & pH Quick Reference
The 5-step bicarbonate scrub for Cochise water at a glance, plus pH-up and pH-down recipes (citric acid, sulfuric, potassium hydroxide, locally-foraged prickly-pear vinegar). EC and pH crop targets across the library. Distilled from Guide 3 §4 and Guide 4 Part 3.
Cheat 5 of 6 · IPM
Pest & Disease Field Card
The Cochise pest catalog at a glance — harlequin bug, cucumber beetle, hornworm, aphid, packrat, javelina, peach leaf curl, powdery mildew. Each entry: what to look for, when it peaks, the cheapest first response, and where to read more. Distilled from Guide 10.
Cheat 6 of 6 · Post-Harvest
Harvest & Preservation Quick Reference
Per-crop harvest signals (when to pick), the 30-minute field-heat rule, and the canning safety warning every Dragoons cook needs — BWB at about 4,450 ft only reaches about 204°F, low-acid foods must be pressure-canned, not BWB. Distilled from Guide 12.
Wall poster
18 × 24 in · architectural size · print-shop scale
About these references. Each cheat sheet is a single page (or one large poster) designed to live on a clipboard or a shed wall, not behind a screen. The full prose for everything here lives in the seventeen guides — the cheats are the at-a-glance lookup. Source guides are noted in italics on each card. Elevation adjustment: the dates are written for the ranch at about 4,450 ft. Shift roughly 1 week later for every 500 ft higher, 1 week earlier for every 500 ft lower. Other sky islands: see Guide 1 §13 for adapting the library to the Mules, Huachucas, Chiricahuas, Santa Ritas, and other Madrean sky islands.