My Favorite Heat Tolerant Greens and Vegetables, And Where To Get Seeds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2022
- Only the most heat tolerant crops thrive during Florida's summer, and many of them are not commonly known. A lot of the heat tolerant crops are not as widely available as most of the traditional vegetable crops. I often get asked where to find seeds for these crops, so in this video I show what I grow in the summer and where I get the seeds from. I buy most of my heat tolerant vegetable seeds online from these websites:
1) ECHO. This is a non-profit organization based in Fort Myers, FL. They send trainers out to third world countries in the tropics to teach the people how to grow food in hot climates. They are an excellent resource, not only for seeds, but also for information about how to grow food in a tropical climate (as inexpensively as possible). They also have a plant nursery in Fort Myers where you can buy fruit trees and other edible plants, including some of the tropical plants that are propagated from cuttings or tubers instead of seeds. I highly recommend visiting ECHO Global Farm if you are in the Fort Myer's area. ECHO offers seeds for sale online here: www.echobooks.net/bookstore/s...
2) Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: www.rareseeds.com/
3) Seed Saver's Exchange: www.seedsavers.org/
4) Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: www.southernexposure.com/
5) Strictly Medicinal Seeds. I mainly buy medicinal herb seeds from them, but I randomly noticed the red amaranth and included it in one of my last orders: strictlymedicinalseeds.com/pr...
6) Grower Jim: www.ebay.com/str/growerjim
7) Sandhill Preservation Center: www.sandhillpreservation.com/...
8) Roughwood Seed Collection: www.seedways.org/shop-1
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Here are links for many of the products I use in my vegetable garden.
Organic Pest Control Methods:
1) Spray Insecticidal Soap directly on the the bugs (I do this late in the day and rinse off the next morning so the sun doesn't burn the plants). Do repeated treatments every few weeks until they are gone. For a homemade soapy water spray, I mix up some castile soap with water and neem oil (I do 1 tsp of Dr. Bronner Soap + 1 tsp Neem Oil to a quart of water in a spray bottle, per the instructions on the neem oil bottle, but there are many recipes online for homemade insecticidal soap that would probably work just as well).
Alternately, you could buy a pre-mixed Insecticidal Soap.
Brands I have used:
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2) For Caterpillars/Worms I use the organic products Spinosad and/or "Bt" (Bacillus Thuringiensis). I only use them for severe infestations that can't be controlled by routine hand picking. I spray it in the evening when bees are not active and only spray it on the affected plants. These are the ones I have used, but there are other brands that would also work (Note that these are concentrates, meant to be mixed with water following the instructions on the label): Spinosad: amzn.to/3IOmzRw
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In addition to the above fertilizers I occasionally use these seaweed and fish fertilizers to give my plants a boost of nutrients. I also use some of the seaweed fertilizer (half-strength) on my seedlings right after I transplant them (Note: I don’t use fertilizers with fish in them for seedlings):
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Self-Watering Grow Boxes:
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Just what I needed. Thanks.
You’re welcome! 😊
Sweet! Thank you! Thank you!
You’re welcome! 🙂
Great video! You show us that there are a lot of possibilities
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Thanks for this!
You’re welcome! 😊
Great info. I really want to try callaloo.
You should! It grows easy and quick. Last night I made some similar to how I make creamed spinach and it was really good. 🙂
I’m in Florida and it’s hard to grow crops in the summer here. I’m growing malabar spinach for the first time, I haven’t tasted it yet. I heard a lot of negative feedback about the slimy texture, but I’m going to give it a try anyway. I tried to grow amaranth but it just wouldn’t grow for me this summer for some reason. I did grow some Love Lies Bleeding amaranth and it grew amazingly well.
When your cat grabbed the water glass I gasped, thought he was going to spill the water on the seeds. 😹
I'm glad you're growing the malabar spinach to try. Some people like it and it does grow very easily. It's worth at least trying. I'm surprised your amaranth didn't grow well. It usually grows pretty easily. Mine even reseeds itself and sprouts up from where I had previous plantings. Maybe it was the variety you grew?
My cat DID spill the water lol! But she pulled it towards her and it spilled away from the seeds (thankfully). That's why the video cuts and then there is no cat in the next clip lol. 😹
Lovely video! Understanding what grows well here in Florida and when to plant is the hardest part of gardening if your an experienced gardener from zones 3-6 and you move down here. It took me two years before I started to understand the crop seasons. Farther north we had a short cool crop starting early spring, a long warm crop starting in late spring then another cool crop starting in early fall. In the winters it was mostly planning for next spring although there were a few hardy greens that could stand up to light snow. Down here it just the opposite, you have short warm crops in spring and fall and one long cool crop season from mid fall to mid spring. And its not the winter cold that you struggle with but the hot rainy summer! Now I'm working on understanding which varieties of vegetables grow well in this subtropical climate. Your channel is very helpful for both planting times and plant varieties. Thank you so much the helpful information.
Thanks! I know it must be pretty confusing how different our climate is down here but it sounds like you’re getting the hang of it 🙂 I’m so glad the videos have been helpful! 🙂
Thank you, your videos are extremely helpful!
Regarding the sweet potatoes, I went to Greenwise and bought a few organic ones. I tossed them on top of some soil and covered them with about 6 inches of mulch. Two or three weeks later I had sprouts coming up and they are doing really well. Sweet potatoes must be one of the easiest things to grow.
You're welcome! I'm so glad you like the videos. Yes sweet potatoes are very easy. They WANT to grow lol. They will pretty much grow any way that you try to plant them. Even when I harvest them and leave the vines laying on the ground, those vines will often grow new roots too. They are my #1 favorite summer crop.🙂
Pigeon peas can be a perennial in Florida. They grow well here. French marigolds are the best here for nematodes.
Yes I have had some pigeon peas live for 2-3 years before a freeze killed them. They grew into a large shrub/small tree in a couple of years. Marigolds are great! I grow them every summer. 🙂
Try tree collard. I have some and they are really big, I think you could try Jamaican calaloo, I know you must be thinking, it's the same as regular calaloo but they are not.
I'll check those out. Thank you!
Your correct. The Green soft type we have in Jamaica 🇯🇲 is so nice and tender
Here is 40 -45'C Damn...My plants are surviving
Do you do anything to the organic sweet potato to get it to sprout other than just letting the eyes form and then sprout naturally? For instance, does it need to be damp or in the sunlight or in the dark? I’m getting ready to get three organic sweet potatoes tomorrow and I was just gonna put them in my bed, but I might try this. Thanks for this video - so wonderful!
Hello. I have tried to grow slips in water, but every potato went mushy.
@@uncommonsenseU thx for that feedback, so much ☺️
I don't usually do anything because my sweet potatoes are usually ones I've saved from a previous harvest and I am not in a hurry for them to sprout. They usually just sprout on their own in storage. However, if I was trying to get them to sprout from a store bought sweet potato more quickly, then I would either lay the potatoes on their sides half buried (but not fully buried) in a bit of moist soil, or cut them in half and soak the bottoms of the halves in some water to get them to sprout faster. There are lots of instructions online for these methods, and from what I've seen, people claim that laying them on their side in soil works faster than putting them in water. If you put them in your bed that would also work, but you could get more individual plants if you remove the sprouts and get them to root so that you can plant them separately. It seems like warm humid air helps them to sprout faster, and mine are usually in the light when they sprout, but I don't know if light is necessarily better than in the dark. Good luck!
@@floridavegetablegardening thanks so much for the reply! I did do some research and so I’m testing two methods - I’ve got two potatoes half buried out in my raised bed and I’ve got one half in water in a sunlight window to see if some slips will grow either way. I’m sure regardless I will have some plantable slips soon!
@@jenfizzie7 you're welcome! Yes I think you will get plenty of sprouts both ways. 🙂
So to start sweet potato, once it gets 6in do you just pop off that sprout from the potato and place in water or do you cut the potato?
You gently twist off the sprouts and put them in water. You could cut the potato and plant it in soil and that would also grow, but you can get more individual plants by planting the sprouts as separate plants, if that makes sense.
@@floridavegetablegardening thank you for responding, that completely makes sense, I have never grown potatoes before but it is on my to do garden list for the future.
@@suesherrill7024 Ok good. No problem. Sweet Potatoes are very easy to grow as long as you start with an organic one. From what I understand, the non-organic ones are often treated with something that stops them from sprouting. Good luck! 🙂
THANK YOU! I specifically appreciate the FL source list, as a FL resident I prefer to buy locally in the hopes I will get better suited plants…
And I agree with you about the Malabar Spinach taste, but they grow crazy here! Will be growing it again but for the goats!
You're welcome! I agree about buying locally whenever possible. Yes, it's a shame the malabar isn't better tasting, because it really does grow prolifically and the bugs don't bother it as much as the other greens (maybe they don't like the texture either lol). That's great that you can feed your goats with it though.🙂