Wondering how I keep my garden alive and thriving during Arizona summers? I share my best tips to help get your garden ready and keep it alive during triple-digit heat. The video includes tips on providing SHADE for your summer garden, how to WATER your garden, and WHICH VEGETABLES to plant.
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Hi Angela found you over on Instagram. We are in GA so I totally understand about the heat. Thanks for sharing the great tips!
Thank you for all the amazing tips and info … it’s so useful 🌳✨
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Great tips, thanks!
Hi, do you have any tips and advice on peppers? It seems like there's such a small window for them to produce between them not liking cool nights (below 50), to dropping blossoms after 90* it sends impossible odds to grow them in arrid climates, but I'm sure others know tricks that I don't…
I lived in Ky for over 40 years and had a pretty big garden most of my life….a few years ago, i moved to surprise Az….my first attempt at a garden was awful….two years later, i finally have a garden growing pretty well this year….my timing is still a little off (we never put stuff in the ground before mother's day weekend in ky)….but i have noticed that i'm struggling a little with the bugs out here in arizona…suggestions?
I love gardening and struggle with keeping my garden alive during the hot summer and this is exactly what I needed. I hope there was more information about how to garden in hot climates such as your channel. Thank you for the helpful tips that I will sure implement in my own garden. I love your garden and hope this summer is a better one in my garden.
You didnt even cover the basics on how to keep your beer cool while gardening in Arizona .. im kinda disappointed 😉
It’s hot here in Houston Texas too. The heat is always a challenge in the garden.
Thankyou
Omg, Angela! I’m so glad I found you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences! 👍. Juli in Tucson 🌵🌵🌵
Do armenian cucumbers taste like regular cucumbers?
Love u bitch ❤️❤️❤️
I'm so glad to find videos specific to gardening in the Az desert. I'm in Casa Grande. I've been vegetable gardening for 15 years here, but am learning a lot from your vidios!
How does cannabis do in Arizona outdoors
A drip line seems fine but as hot as the water gets in my garden hose I'm afraid of scalding their roots. I have to flush out all the hot water before I can use it. The hose is white… How on earth do you water your crops in such heat with a black drip line?
Great info as always! I keep reading that you're only supposed to water your container trees once a week. But mine are getting so hot that I'm alread doing it twice a week and was nervous about what to do when it gets way hotter next month.
Also you're so right about scheduling the plants. When I first moved to Houston, I thought that you planted Summer vegetables here in the Summer like you would anywhere else in the country. It turns out you can plant them, but nature will fry them up in a hurry! The good part is that we get to plant our "Summer" vegetables in the spring and in the fall. So we get twice the chances to get a good crop.
I always enjoy watching your videos!
Hoyas, hmm, i never thought of that, great idea.
I can't find ollas anywhere.
best tips in under 10 mins. thanks!
Can you do a medical cannabis grow episode when and where in your yard to grow
I just moved to Tempe. Where is a good place to buy local/native seeds?
Where do you usually source your straw mulch? I would like to use straw as mulch this year but am concerned with herbicides and pesticides used in straw? Is there any brand you would recommend?
I know this is an older video. But if you don't have one already, can you please make a video on your watering drip system?
Mine wasn't very good and just had bubblers. My garden pretty much failed because of it. I like your watering grid and would love to see how it works, and how to make one myself for my raised beds. Thanks!
I live in Las Vegas which may be similar to your climate… this year is my first year with 2 4×8 and 1 4×4 garden beds… I have them irrigated and ready to go. I am enjoying your videos, taking screenshots and hope to be a successful low desert gardener!!
Ohhhhh! Thank you. In Atlanta area….we have had unusually hot hot summers….and I have known that this year that I must use shade cloths on my deck, etc. I did use an umbrella last year. I grow gentler shade plants on a patio here….that only receives cooler morning sun.
I love Elephant ears…..but had to move their big pot..to..the patio because the deck, with a seeming afternoon shade area…..was just too much sun from the late morning. Ugh.
Luckily…..I just love to plant and grow things…..so I am ‘in love with growing things’. Again…thank you!!! Ahna
When we cut down a sick weed like tree that was near the deck, years ago….the deck of course…..was less shaded and horribly hotter. Duh!! I was gone away for 4 years but upon returning…..the deck really was a whole different environment….in summer.
I do grow winter veggies here(Atlanta) on deck successfully. If too cold of an upcoming night…..I cover those pots with a thick plastic or 2 of those.
Is it good for plants if we spray mist or water on leaves of plants?,
Where did you find your amazing trellises? I've seen some on Gardener's Supply, but looking for more ideas!
Thank you for the videos very refreshing and helpful…much appreciated 👍
Over the winter I bought a few 4X2 elevated cedar garden beds with legs that are only 9 inches deep. I wasn’t thinking about Phoenix summer when I bought them, oops. Do you think I can use them in the summer if I use shade cloth and water daily or will the soil be too hot still?
I feel silly but in order to know if we watered deep enough we need to dig a hole beside the plant in each raised bed to check?
Thanks for the great tips!
Absolutely! Timing is critical, especially in dry, hot places. If one grew up in another place where summers were cooler and moister than where one is now, it's important to learn to adapt to the climate one is in now. Can't follow the same gardening schedule as the one from one's hometown.
Another big one is trying to avoid growing plant species that don't tolerate high heat, low humidity, high pH and salty water. Many desert places have all of these things and they make raising plants that aren't adapted to such conditions very difficult. It can be done, but expect to have to really 'baby' those plants and protect them much more than you are used to.
The tips about using big plants to shade others below them are great ones. A good example of why planting different species together is often a good idea as long as none of the plants being considered release any allelopathic (or naturally toxic to other plants) chemicals. These bigger plants that are planted first, or that emerge before and/or grow faster than the plants around them (sometimes called 'nurse plants") really help, especially in deserts. When one goes on hikes out in the desert away from developed land, one sees plants growing in this way on their own.
Very good video.
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Your videos are so Awesome
Thnks