Vegetables that Grow in 100 Degree Summer Heat
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2022
- Wondering what, if anything, will grow in your vegetable garden when summer temperatures soar above 100 degrees? Rick Bickling, The How Do Gardener, shows you the vegetables that will grow, and thrive, in scorching summer heat.
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It got up to 110° yesterday here just outside of Austin. Crazy hot. But, once watered, all of these heat loving crops in my garden are still thriving.
Here in Dallas/Fort Worth Texas most of the summer is 100F or above with nights in the high 80s-90sF. Yet, I can grow sweet potatoes with ease if you just water them with high yields. tomatoes are also good if watered. All peppers are good. Summer squash is also good. I am trying black-eyed peas this year to see what they yield. Just try sweet potatoes and you will be happy at the end of the season.
That sounds good. Similar to here in Austin. Sweet potatoes are a very nice end of season harvest. Happy gardening!
Don’t forget that sweet potato leaves are excellent stir fried or sautéed. A favorite in this household
Great point! Thanks for sharing. Happy gardening.
We put in a greenhouse. In the summer We put shade cloth across some of the greenhouse. We grow our vegetables in tanks that are based on regenerative farming style.
The night time temperature is around 70 to 80 degrees. Our daytime temperature is around 100 to 105 degrees with the radiation levels that are amongst the highest in the United States.
I have grown celery, parsley, tomatoes, potatoes, blueberries, chard, and carrots with only watering once a week.
If you set up your soil with water retaining debris, you can cut way down on your watering plus you won't wash away all of your nutrients.
That sounds like a great setup. Then just remove the shade cloth in winter. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Small tomatoes do well in hot temps
They do indeed. My Sweet 100 and Yellow Pear tomatoes are still producing, but starting to slow a bit. Happy gardening!
Excellent job, your voice is easy to follow and understand... Thanks
Thank you for the kind words. So glad you found the video helpful. Take care.
really good video, short and packed with content... just what I look for... thanks!!!
Thank you so much!! This was very informative and I learned somethings I did not know!!
So glad you found it helpful and learned some new things. Have a great rest of your day, and Happy Gardening.
We don't get extreme high temperatures in the UK well not prolonged, we get a short burst of really hot say 29 or 30 degrees like this week. I'm growing bottle gourd, malabar spinach and hyacinth beans which love really hot weather. Thanks for the tip about purslane I will try and get some.
Glad you liked the video. Even a short bust of hot weather like that can dramatically affect your garden. That's great you're already growing Malabar Spinach. Seems to be one that many gardeners are not aware of. Happy Gardening!
Yardlong blackeyed peas replace green beans. They stay firm when friend or canned.
That sounds good. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for these suggestions. I have been wanting to try purslane but figured it would die quickly in the heat. I'll try one or both of the varieties you suggested.
You're welcome. Both of those purslane varieties have done well for me. Happy gardening!
love your vids ordered purslane seeds
Glad you enjoy my videos. Let me know how the purslane does and how you like it. Happy Gardening!
By wrapping green tomatoes in newspaper and storing at cool room they will ripen. Best to keep in single layers some spoil depending on damage.
Yes indeed. Always pick any tomatoes before the first frost and bring them inside to ripen.
I put mine on a south window the day before frost it works great
It's always nice to rescure those last tomatoes isn't it. Take care.
102 degrees? Soooo, a cool day then? 😂
Well...it is under 120 degrees. Stay frosty out there.
@TheHowDoGardener this is very true! For now, at least.
Yes indeed
110F here today
Ouch! That is indeed hot.
Man I miss gardening. Live in an area without a backyard, just an unfenced lot that the management is super strict on what they allow. Which is nothing, to be exact. Thinking of just doing what i want with a few raised beds, see what they do. I'm in San Antonio, hoping I can get something to actually grow this time around that the heat doesnt destroy!
Give Square Foot Gardening a try. You can grow a lot in a 4-ft by 4-ft raised bed. That's what I use on my old concrete basketball court. Here's a link to the new book. amzn.to/4bdn6vw
I actually helped write it.
@TheHowDoGardener wow, that's a good suggestion! I completely forgot about square foot gardening. I'll give it a read, hopefully get something going before Temps get too high. Much appreciated!
No problem. Happy gardening!
Australian here many summer days get to 45 Celsius or 113f
If you can get the veg in this video there, they should do well. Cheers!
I was hoping to do a tropical garden on my balcony. What was i thinking! Its extemely hot full sun and humidity around 80% in summer. And around 60% in winter. So im growing the vegies. ftom seeds They booting along. Sadly cant have my tropical garden but can have vegies herbs all year round. Happy planting people
Sounds like a good plan. Fresh vegies and herbs right from your balcony will be very nice. It's 15-degrees Farenheit and everything is coated in ice right now here in Austin. Happy gardening!
Awesome vid! Where do u get ur crop cages from?
Thank you! Glad you liked it. The colorful PVC pipe ones I made myself. Here's a link to the chicken wire one: amzn.to/3LcCv3F. Take care.
Bless your heart for sharing this knowledge with people. Which pepper varieties do you grow for extremely hot weather?
Glad you liked the video. I usually grow a lot of banana peppers, but really all varieties will grow in the heat. Keep them watered and they will really produce when it starts to cool off a bit. We're only getting up into the mid 90's now and I'm getting a bunch. Happy Gardening!
@@TheHowDoGardener I'll give this a try next summer then. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Chili peppers as well and if you don't mind size a tiny pepper I've seen growing wild in Texas is Chili Pequin smaller fruiting plants tend to do better with harsh living conditions like grape tomatoes (I did end up bringing in my plant after it got too hot but she did try her best)
@@drikonrokon852 thanks for the tip!
Try sweet leaf, sauropus androgynus.
I'll have to look into it. Take care.
I thought you must be a Texan
Yes indeed!
I love purslane. It's growing all over my property. I love to make pesto with it and it's the only thing that's growing right now. I am so pissed off, nothing is growing. This is horrible and my house was flooded last winter and I swear it left a 3-in layer of concrete dirt crap that ruined my soil that I had already amended and turned over. I can't seem to get anything to grow everything stunted and it's freaking pissing me off. Tomatoes are growing. I got lots of tomatoes but nothing else. Oh and pumpkins pumpkins neverending supply of pumpkins. I didn't want pumpkins this year but they won't stop growing because they were in my compost and last year. Anywho? I'm the angry gardener
Pesto with purslane sounds good. Sorry to hear about your house flooding last winter. Keep on gardening and grow what you can. Next season may be totally different. Take care.
Okra and black eyed peas
Always good choices. Happy gardening!
lecture notes: Edible PURSLANE: Goldgelber - Much more erect and the leaves are very large and meaty; color is a bright golden green and the flavor is really wonderful, a bit citric, harvested over a long period. Red Gruner - upright stems with a pretty red tone and large soft green, fleshy leaves.
Thanks for the info. Happy gardening!
I had tons of purslane before I knew it was edible,had thrown out a pot of dirt because I thought the plant was dead,it came up all in our garden spot,tasty and pretty
@kathywright6853 indeed. I used to pull it out as a weed before. Take care.
Purslaine is EXTREMELY HIGH in oxalates that cause kidney stones, thyroid problems,contribute to some forms of breast cancer,may negatively affect the prostate and can cause one form of artery plaque clogging (according to Oxford University)
The oxalate content of purslane leaves is reported as 671-869 mg/100 g of fresh weight, compared with 658 for spinach and 1458.1 for swiss chard. According to a 2016 study, consuming purslane seeds in combination with exercise may improve atherosclerosis plaque biomarkers in women with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Purslane has the highest recorded levels of omega-3 fatty acids of any land-based plant, which can help support artery health and prevent heart disease.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934766/
@@TheHowDoGardener "The total oxalate of purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) leaves grown in a green house was 1072.7 ± 23.2 mg/100 g dry matter (DM) while the level was 1234.1 ± 37.5 for leaves grown in shaded light in the same greenhouse. Lightly cooking the leaves grown in full and shaded light had no effect on soluble or insoluble content of the leaf tissue." ~~Science Direct
Hi, just saw your video. Trying to get some fall stuff growing in mid-August in the Florida Panhandle. Right now, temps are near 100. What are some seeds that will germinate in raised beds in this heat? I have okra. It popped right up in a few days. I have “pink-eye, purple hull” peas, but I can’t seem to get radishes or other greens like Chard to germinate or they germinate very spotty.
I've got the same situation here in Austin. Even though he planting time for most fall crops officially starts at the end of August for both our areas, it runs until the end of October. I'm going to wait on planting my fall crops until it cools down some. In the interim, you can get a second planting of some more warm season crops like beans, peppers, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, winter squash, and tomatoes in. I'm from Pensacola and went to FSU so am familiar with your area. Hope this helps. Happy gardening!
@@TheHowDoGardener Oh wow! It’s a small world. My wife went to FSU and graduated in 1980. I married her anyway😀 we used to go to FSU football games when Bobby was still the coach. Sadly my wife went to be with the Lord a couple years ago. We were married 41 years. We lived in Ft. Worth for a bit as well, but came back to our hometown to spend our retirement years. Now gardening is my favorite pastime. It gives me some peace. You’ll find this interesting. Just before I saw your reply, about 12:30 pm, I went out with my temperature probe that I use for meat, and stuck it in my beds. The temp in every one of my beds was a consistent 95 degrees, and I inserted the probe several inches into the soil. You’re right! There’s no need to fight that. I’ll wait a couple weeks. Around September it should start coming down a bit.
Sorry to hear about your wife. I graduated in 1984. Watched many a game at Doak Campbell stadium with Bobby at the helm. That sounds like a good plan for your garden. Gardening brings me a lot of peace too...at least until the squirrels get hungry. Take care.
At the end of season transplant peppers to pot they won't survive in the garage but the pepper fruit will.
Good idea. Thanks for sharing. My pepper plants get to be almost 6-feet tall so I'd need a bunch of big pots. Happy gardening!
I found out with cantaloupes giving them a moss mulch layer it thrives with the extra moisture but i only got small melons due to growing late and a squirrel 😅 im already starting on my spicy pepper seedlings since my mother plant unfortunately didn't survive it's 2nd year and I've found out peppers love bottom water tray if grown in pots and afternoon shade
Sounds like a good plan. Happy squirrel-free gardening!
💚 I know the pain.... I grew my golden habanero in a large tub, surrounded by a steel cage..... Just as it reached full colour it was harvested by our local pest the brushtail possum...... His arms at full stretch to pick MY peppers...... Horrible Neighbours......
That's the worst, when something is just about ready to harvest then along comes a critter. Take care.
@@TheHowDoGardener this year I got pay back, the squirrel tried eating my jalapeno but didn't succeed instead got a mouth full of capcisian 🤣 and I've bought wire mesh bags that were designed for large mangos to protect from squirrels and so far new melons are safe
That would have been funny to see. I've started using those wire mesh bags on my container citrus trees. So far so good. Keep up the good fight, and take care.🌶🐿
Good info!!!
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.
Well i grow vegetables in 122 heat in Phx it thrived loads of cucumbers and tomatoes, basil etc. Yes you can grow ONLY heat tolerance vegetables, herbs etc. As i am speaking i just start my Melons and corns and it's 112 degrees will get hotter...
That's fantastic! Sounds like you have a great garden. Take care and Happy Gardening!
Bambara groundnuts
I'll have to look into them. Thanks!
I try potato in an environment of 40degree celcius temperature ,but refuse to produce tubers
Were they Sweet Potatoes or Irish Potatoes?
My heat loving plants would probably prefer to be in the shade but I have absolutely none, on my land.
It's been so hot here in Austin this summer that some shade really would help us too. Happy gardening!
We eat purslane daily
Purslane is good stuff. Happy gardening!
Can I let the red malabar grow on the okra or will the okra be overwhelmed?
I don't think it would hurt the okra, but I've had the malabar spinach reach the top of an 8-foot trellis. Don't think the okra would help too much at that point. Excellent question though. I'd like to be able to apply that "3-sisters" concept of beans growing up on corn with squash shading the ground to other plant combinations. Happy gardening!
@@TheHowDoGardener Thank you for your response. It would be nice to have other companion plantings. I would grow corn if it would support the spinach or a luffa plant.
Both plants are regulars in my garden. The Malabar will overwhelm your okra as it has spectacular growth once established and the leaves and vines are moderately heavy. I keep it separated in its own bed/container. Made the mistake the first year I planted it of putting the Malabar in a large mixed bed. I ended up fighting it all summer. Love growing it now that it is separated. Leafy greens all summer! Keep in mind that it has a bit of a gelatinous texture like okra. Will self-seed if allowed to flower at ens of summer/fall and container is brought indoors in areas with colder winters.
@xiaopangpang7082 Malabar does tend to take over doesn't it.
@@xiaopangpang7082 Thank you
If you don't like okra, you probably won't like malibar spinach...both have the slime factor.
When cooked, it can be a bit slimy. Fresh in a salad not so much. It is high in soluble fiber which aids digestion. Thanks for the info. Take care.
If you slice okra, and roast with salt, and a touch of olive oil, there is really no slime. If you freeze dry or dehydrate it into okra chips, there is NO slime at all, just delicious crunch!! We eat Malibar spinach raw in salad, and have not noticed any slime. You must be preparing those vegetables wrong.
Yes indeed. Okra roasted with olive oil and salt is crispy and delicious. Thanks for sharing.
You missed egg plants!
I've found they don't produce much fruit for me when it gets above 95º. But a great suggestion. If you keep the plants watered they will start producing again when the temperatures cool off. Thanks, and Happy Gardening!
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Glad you liked it. Happy gardening!
At first, I thought it was 102 degree celcius. What Frankenstein super vegetables is this? 102 Fahrenheit is nothing.
That would indeed be quite a vegetable to grow in 102 degrees celcius. I bet somebody somewhere is probably working on one. Take care.
Sam Elliot voice?! Go do voice acting! 👍
(Using my best voice ->) "Thank you kind sir. You stay safe out there"