John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares his top 10 tips that he uses to garden in 100+ degree weather for 2 months straight in the summer heat.
In this episode, you will learn the 10 most important tips you need to know so your vegetable garden can survive and thrive when you get a heat wave in your garden.
You will learn more about all the special heat-wave protection techniques, and methods he uses to create resilience in his garden so his plants are immune to the hot weather in the Mohave desert that lasts two months out of the year.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:25 How to Garden in a Heat Wave
00:45 It is over 100 degrees for 2 months!
02:16 Tip#1 Have Good Soil
03:52 Tip#2 Plant Heat Tolerant Plants
05:21 Tip #3 Get Your Plants Growing Early
07:18 Tip #4 Utilize Microclimates in Your Yard
08:26 Tip #5 Use an Irrigation System
09:26 Tip #6 Don’t be scared to water multiple times a day
12:10 Tip #7 Foliar Feed Your Plants every week
13:03 Tip #8 Plant Densly / Living Mulch / Mulch
14:41 Tip #9 Walk Your Garden to Check on Your Plants
15:40 Tip #10 Tips so You Can Garden in the Heat
Last Soil Recipe you will ever need
10 vegetables that grow despite the heat
Foliar Feed Plants Weekly
Strategies for gardening in the heat (people)
Top 8 Vegetables to Grow in 100+ degree Weather
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Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:25 How to Garden in a Heat Wave
00:45 It is over 100 degrees for 2 months!
02:16 Tip#1 Have Good Soil
03:52 Tip#2 Plant Heat Tolerant Plants
05:21 Tip #3 Get Your Plants Growing Early
07:18 Tip #4 Utilize Microclimates in Your Yard
08:26 Tip #5 Use an Irrigation System
09:26 Tip #6 Don't be scared to water multiple times a day
12:10 Tip #7 Foliar Feed Your Plants every week
13:03 Tip #8 Plant Densly / Living Mulch / Mulch
14:41 Tip #9 Walk Your Garden to Check on Your Plants
15:40 Tip #10 Tips so You Can Garden in the Hea
John, thanks for all your advice! I take it dear to heart as a beginner gardener in North Texas. While this video is focused on beating the heat, I am curious to know in the same vein how you prepare and execute your fall/winter garden design in tandem with the processing out your spring/summer crops. You've been an incredible inspiration on my quest towards growing my own greens 🙂
I'm not that far north from you and this year we had a super cool spring, June was crazy cool. Even this heat wave isn't that bad. I would say its getting cooler overall. Although the plants still need help through this.
Or heat wave in zone 10a of SE FL is rotting my bean seeds before they can even germinate!!! I guess I waited too long to plant. Even at night its sweltering and horrendously humid..worst I've ever felt it in summer here. Love your videos…do you have one on how to calculate mixing amounts for those sprayers? Ever use shade cloths? I'm new to FL gardening so what an adventure! Amendments galore and water water water…a must have is your own rain water system here. Just got my barrels so I'm excited.
i hope you will get freshers days for healthy plants mate
The heat is only gonna get worse. 2023 is breaking all records but guess what? It's only gonna get WORSE. Humanity needs to treat this as a full-on WAR for our survival. WW3 has already begun and it's the battle to save us from ourselves…
I live in tropical zone 9 and when i plant densely i have so many problems with fungus and other leaf diseases
I too live and garden in the Mohave desert (So Ca high desert area) on the border of zone 8b/9a. For now, my vegetable garden is contained within a 12’x12’ raised bed enclosure in the middle of absolutely barren land. I have no convenient water source near the garden (I’m working on that) to set up a traditional irrigation system, therefore, nightly I transport the next day’s water to the garden and stage it. I am experimenting with a small solar gravity fed irrigation system that I hope to eventually hook up to a 50 gal water barrel partially fed by a fog net system that collects the moisture from the night air that is common in this area.
I truly believe that I spent more time growing my soil this year than I did my plants! Upon your recommendations, I have included rock dust, worm castings, mycorrhizal fungi, among other things, and I just started foliar feeding and have a compost bin started. The 110+ temps have caused even my peppers and okra to mass drop blossoms, but my eggplant is thriving and radishes keep plugging along. Summer squash is doing ok as is basil and other herbs such as sage, thyme, savory and dill. I planted purslane under my peppers and it is not doing too badly. It likes the shade that the peppers provide. I have plantain growing wherever it sets seed. I dug up a plant from my home in the mountains and moved it with me to the desert. I don’t ever want to be without this amazing medicinal plant! Sadly, all of my beans, even the heat tolerant cowpeas, are struggling. All were direct sowed a little too late, but we had a late freeze and I waited until the soil was warm enough. You win some you lose some! My malibar spinach (another fabulous plant that I first grew last year after watching one of your videos) is deciding to be a late bloomer, it looks healthy, but has not taken off and spread much yet. I planted lots of supposed heat tolerant plants, but the heat here is beyond extreme and much of it did not make it after the temps exceeded 100. I plan on planting a great deal more pepper varieties next year (inspired by your pepper videos) in addition to more okra, eggplant, figs and pomegranates. I am also exploring growing more summer edible greens like Egyptian and longevity spinach (again, inspired by you). Trying my hand at moringa again too.
I am convinced that the successes that I have had this year are due to your suggestions and tips. Thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge!
Shade cloth! In addition to extra watering, shade cloth helps.
Can you please recommend a water timer to set up with my phone? I am trying to find one and getting confused with all of the information out there. I am in Arizona, in the low desert, so I empathize with you being out there even without the sun, it is HOT!
If anyone is an expert on this topic, it's you. I'm like he grows in the desert. I'm too lazy to install drip irrigation but it seems imperative with hand watering for containers/raised beds.
You always have great, solid advice. Thank you
Summertime is called 'heatwave' these days? I had frost in June. Spring cold screwed up my melons. 9:00. This guy lives in the desert and does not use mulch/ground cover. That raised bed looks like a beginners garden in the ghetto.
Plant densely, and plant often!
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good tips John; New Mexico has been in triple digits this summer…whoo!
Las Vegas is 2 months straight day and night over 100 degrees.
The weather in maryland can be unpredictible. for the most part the seasons end somwhat abruptly and goes right from winter to summer it seems like. and the lack of rain this year was a challange. we go through very lng dry spells. i think their was a mild drought, then we will get slammed with a ton of rain for weeks. then no rain for a month. I try to let my plants adapt themselfs becasue no most of my garden is trees( that are starting to get overgrown) It truly is like a forrest now. I do have a spot of full sun in my yard where i layed down one row a weed fabric and made a row of t posts with some string for some grow bags i grew some peppers and tomatoes in. They used to do well in other parts of my yard but are now shaded by my friut trees. and the amount of weed mulberries I have are in the dosens at this point but they all put off good friut so its hard to get rid of them.my rasberry patch has been on the move from one side of my garden to the other the last 3 years but i do like the different canopy layers developing.
I recommend sunglasses. Sunlight causes cataracts.
I missed the live 😢. But great advice as usual. Thank You 🙏😊
What a great teacher and gardener ❤❤❤❤
Hello bro
Jaboticabas can grow in hot climate where temperature is above 40 degree c?
This man is gold.
B-hyve timer a great wi-fi sprinkler timer control. Once it program it does not use or need wi-fi. So if internet is down, you still get irrigation.
Farmers all over the states are having late harvest this year, Hayward Ca. my plums came 30 days late and my white nectarines are 2 weeks late the SF Bay has had below average temps for most days this year, I saw some other stories about late tomato harvest and in other states.
Lodi Wine producers are concerned about Late Harvest this year, its happening everywhere.
Great tips!! THANK YOU! <3