John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on tour of his summer 2016 back yard vegetable garden.

In this episode, you will discover all the different vegetables and edible plants John is growing in his back yard raised bed garden in the desert.

You will discover many of the unique varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruits he is growing in the hot 100+ degree weather over the summer time.

After watching this episode, you may get some ideas on some of the heat resistant crops you might want to grow in your garden so you can feed you and your family food you grew in your home garden.

Referenced Videos:
How I protect my Tomatoes from the Birds for $1

Egyptian Onions Video

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26 Comments

  1. Sweet potatoes also can be trained pretty easily to grow vertically, you will just get less tubers that way. But their greens are very tasty! I agree with the banana peppers. I have one plant that looks sickly and it still spits out peppers. I have grown 4 peppers on one plant in the last 2 months and another one if fruiting. I can only imagine if the plant was healthier, how many it would produce! I agree about the bell peppers, they never really seem to produce well for me, maybe one sickly looking one now and then. I live in zone 9b.

  2. I've watched a lot of your videos, and they are great. You are inspiring, keep them coming.

  3. Oh and the heat no tomatoes all green, between rats and heat I have not harvested tomatoes or watermelon, the rats are eating them a soon as the get thr size of a grape…ughh

  4. Hi John, In my backyard, I have a wrap around above ground garden area (about 70 X 3 foot) – but have found that due to its position it gets sun from sunrise to sundown – which equals sun fried plants. What would you recommend as a setup to add some shade to the area? Thanks

  5. How big is your yard to hold that many plants? I have one thousand feet but I don't have that many plants because they take up a lot of room. What is a decent size property to grow the plants that you have? Also how do you protect an apple tree from disease from bugs without using pesticides? My tree looks diseased!

  6. Yes, the sweet potato leaves are pretty good. I steam them and dip in soy sauce. 🙂

  7. John, if you provide a water source for the birds, they will leave your tomatoes alone. I grow tomato plants uncovered on my wooded lot with a large bird bath next to them. Lots of birds and they never touch them.

  8. One thing I really love about your videos is that you allow for varied approaches in producing food. I am interested in Permaculture but I don't adhere to every single method as I live in a historic area and there are rules about how one's property can look. Thanks for encouraging so many of us to do what we can, in our own way. I am totally organic in my growing methods and I recycle and conserve water.

  9. I'm a new gardener here just trying to soak as much knowledge as I can! 🙂
    If you haven't made these videos already, could you make videos about:
    -The health benefits of each plant and where you got them from? There's some plants that you have I've never heard of
    -What plants grow best in the winter and how best to care for them when it gets below freezing
    -Plant combining. What plants grow best next to one another
    -All the different plant diseases and how best to get rid of it
    -A day where you harvest everything from your garden and how you store it all/use it all

  10. OMG … OMG!!!!! Did I just see an ad for ROUNDUP products before your video?! You so need to do away with that! Nobody should EVER EVER EVER buy any Monsanto product!!! >:(

    Here's my question. I have very limited garden space. I want to plant veggies that produce all season long rather than those that take all season to mature and only produce at the end of the season. I live in southeastern PA, so zone 6 A or B (can't remember which). Any suggestions? Thanks!

  11. Aren't your peppers cross-pollinating each other? They are so close! And the other veggies too.

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