The list:- 0. Red Okra 1. Perpetual Spinach (Loves heat , good all year rounder, good in stir fry) 2. Egyptian Walking Onion 3. Corn/Maize 4. Egyptian Spinach 5. Tat Tailed Radish (seed pods in stir-fry) 6. Kangkong (water spinage) 7. Sweat Potato 8. KALE
i like that he is on youtube, and not cable or some shit. that way im not supporting people like honey booboo just because i wanna watch 1 awesome show like this
Here in Texas I haven’t found anything that is easier to grow through the 100 plus degree summers than okra. Easy, mostly pest resistant, cranks out spears like they were going out of style and just laughs off the sun without even wilting. It’s amazing.
@Jon's Labyrinth Aloe is edible and good for you. Really. So far we've only used small amounts in stir fries, would like to try blending into a brothy soup. I'm just starting to experiment with it. We don't really notice much taste, though. I'm looking for more cooking ideas for it.
in the DFW area, Yes I have grown Okra without any issues. Besides i have grown Japanese Eggplants (long variety), string beans, bell peppers, Armenian cucumbers, snake gourd, green beans, broad beans, and bitter gourd for several years. wish could try more vegetables but getting old to keep up with.
I´ve grown those “walking onions” in Scotland and they are incredibly hardy. Mine were a lot stronger in flavour than most varieties. They did good service for our family as they had been passed down the generations for around 40 years from one single original bunch.
@@elinpower4326 You don't buy either one. What you buy are the topsets, which are a cluster of bulblets. You separate each topset into the individual bulbils before planting. I bought my original topsets on Ebay, but they are available from numerous sources online, including from many seed companies.
@@rose5566 No they aren't shallots. The plants grow a bulb underground, which can multiply. You can eat the bulbs, the scapes, or the little bulblets which form at the end of a scape. Eventually the plant will bend over under the weight of one or more topsets of little bulblets. Those bulblets will then root and grow wherever they've touched the ground. In that way, the plant can go "walking" across a garden bed.
I think your one of the best garden videos channels on TH-cam that is because you are friendly, humorous, to the point without waffling on about nothing and don’t assume your watchers know nothing.
6:04AM. Never went to sleep. Probably just gonna watch another and check the garden when the sun comes up. Until then...I’ll watch the chicken videos next.
Shared! The native Americans used to cultivate "the 3 sisters": corn, beans, squash. The beans will use the corn height to climb up and the squash will provide the ground cover to keep the moisture in.
Good stuff! We also grow Okra, Moringa, Hot Peppers, Calaloo, Seminole Pumpkin, Everglades Tomato, Black Cherry Tomato, Snake Beans, Cassava, and Collard Greens in the heat.
@1:40 perpetual spinach (variety of chard) stems can be used like celery @2:28 Egyptian walking onions @3:29 Corn 🌽/maize @4:23 Egyptian spinach @5:06 rat tailed radish @6:02 kangkong (water spinach) @7:19 sweet potato @8:35 kale
I just added a couple of those in pairs, here n there. I'm in a rental with well established gardens, full of roses, shrubs & native trees. So it's a bit hard to do much gardening into the actual "garden beds". But sunflowers are my favourite flower ever... So stuff it! A couple here & there won't hurt! 😜😜
I got back into growing a few things when I saw Kale for $5 and tomatoes for $16/kg. I now have a couple of trellis' loaded with cherry toms and perpetual supply of bok choi, 2 kale and 2 spinach variants. I live about 20 minutes from you, and am about the same age, and know the nutritional value of lots of leafy greens in the diet. Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge. You've been a great motivation for me. And I've motivated a few neighbors to grow stuff, with my cuttings :)
@Claire S - I am near Sandgate north of Brisbane. I have never had a lot of aphid trouble. I hand water with a hose, and they say this knocks them off plants, and they rarely go back on. - I also spend a lot of time getting the soil right with compost++, and annual manure (cow, horse, chicken). When your soil has good oxygenation and biological life, many of the pests don't hang around. - I have to use crop covers due to cabbage butterfly, grasshoppers, possums, birds. In winter I use a light mesh, and summer 30-50% shade cloth.
So....we just ordered Walking Onions, a few types of spinach and Swiss Chard, a lettuce/cabbage combo that thrives in summer and more. We love watching your videos - if only YOU sold the seeds you'd reap greater reward, besides knowing that you're influencing the Veggie Farmers of FL, us! Thanks Mark!
@@jackieallgayer9362 sorry for the delay in responding - we bought them online at Rare Seeds. We also buy seeds from Burpee and Urban Seeds. Right now, we have a purple gold strawberry tomato plant that makes delicious, plum-tasting tomatoes. And Brown Jolokia, Brown Moruga and Habanero pepper plants that think they're bushes! The garden always has something interesting. Best of success to you!
I love this channel, its like watching a TV series but better. Mark you have inspired me to spend most of my weekends in my small suburban backyard transforming it into a little food production playground. Cheers from Dave in Melbourne.
To add to the list: Nasturtium! It's kept on growing abundantly through the heat of summer while it was too hot for other salad-like plants. If it needs water, the suddenly droopy leaves will tell you and otherwise - it's super easy to grow and the leaves have a good, reliable taste no matter what the weather throws at it. Last year I didn't even know you could eat the leaves, this year it's become one of my favs! The little green pods that form after flowering are also good to eat thin sliced (very spicy). Plus, pollinators love it, so it's good for all!
I've just gotta say Mark, youre a DAG!! I love that you're spreading the good word about self sufficiency in such a good humoured way and sending that excellent Aussie vibe out to the world: so proud! ♥️ from a fellow dag!! 🤗😉 🇦🇺
"Hail the Kale", ... You're such a Dad, Mark! 😂😂 Thanks for the heads up, & when Summer arrives here properly, in Melbourne, I'll know exactly what will be the sure bet! 🤣👍👍😂😂😂
Thank you for making this videos I've been watching for a while. People don't understand how important it is to learn things like this. Specially on this times.
@@stephanies9071 unfortunately so many people have grown accustomed to get everything handed to them. It's very sad. I've made sure my kids learn all of this
Yes, it's very important! Even a few containers growing some herbs can be such a money saver. Better still is growing one or two things that you can't find at the supermarket because there are so many amazing, healthy, and tasty foods that simply aren't stacked on mainstream retail shelves just waiting to be discovered by backyard food gardeners like us. Cheers :)
Chaya, amaranth, Malabar spinach, yard long beans, Seminole pumpkins, any cow pea (black eye etc.), true yam, everglades tomato, hot peppers, bush beans. These will all do well in the god forsaken let me know when satan gets here summer. I live in the sub tropics too, it's a miserable friggin season, it's even too hot and muggy if all your doing is lying around the pool drinking mai tai's......I hate it :) Thanks for the vid Mark gg.
I've got very limited space here at my apartment, but recently the manager cleared out the planter boxes so folks can plant what they want. Sweet potatoes and the Egyptian walking onions are now on the top of my planting list, along with tomato seedings for a Fall crop. Thanks so much for your gardening videos!
Thank you, Mark, for the great videos, and thank you all for the ideas in the comments! Other plants that grow well here in Mumbai’s heat are arugula, Armenian cucumber, cluster beans (guar), ivy gourd (tendli), elephant yam, ginger, turmeric, melons, and, as you mentioned in the beginning of the video, various gourds like bottle gourd, snake gourd, ridge gourd, bitter gourd, etc.
I live in Alice Springs and found this video super helpful. I have also found Warrigal greens, Brazilian and Malabar spinach do very well all year round and the grasshoppers don’t munch on them either.
When I lived in Texas, USA, I found that peppers generally do okay up to 100 F but can sag a little if temps go over 100F. Also, some bell peppers can become sunburned so a little shade will help. The same can be said for tomatoes. Of course it also depends on how dry and how high the temperature goes.
I grew an Italian kale last year, it was absolutely delicious! The leaves were longer, more narrow and very easy to harvest. Did well through the Eastern mid-Atlantic summer.
Ok all I can say is that your videos are amazing. It is so down to earth....no pun intended heh. But they are simple and normal and you cause your viewers to connect with you. Best gardening videos I have ever seen. Please do not stop
Dude! Love your videos. They are on point, informative and fun. You forgot an entire plant family that *adores* the heat: Solanacea, aka tomatoes. I live in barely outside the subtropics in Central Florida. Tomatoes, especially the indeterminate varieties, can be grown year-round here. The smaller the fruit, the easier time it has in the heat. The larger fruits seem to take a LOT out of the plant, so we grow mostly Sweet 100s, Yellow Pears, etc. for our Summer crops. I do have some heirlooms in a shady spot; Cherokee Purple. Japanese tomato rings are a great way to grow them, but I also like 5-gallon buckets. The heirlooms are in the hydroponic tower to ensure adequate moisture. We also have Malabar Spinach every Summer , which you probably have grown at some point. I LOVE that stuff. Mmmmm so tasty. Tell everyone to look at their local "weeds". Dandelion, Bidens, sorrel, etc are considered to be pests when folks don't eat them often enough to keep the populations in check. We also have a Passionvine that has plans to take over the neighborhood soon (and I think might be harboring an evil plot to take over the world at some point). The new leaves from all those plants are delicious cooked, and the flavors are even better mixed together. Also, Passionvine leaves are medicinal, helping to relieve pain and induce sleep w/out a hangover. (Tastes horrible, be forewarned. IDK why, as the baby leaves are very nice cooked.) Bidens is an effective antibiotic; I've even used it on documented cases of Staph and Strep (meaning they were tested by a doc & the bacteria identified). It's literally a life saver for those of us with severe drug allergies. The flowers of all these plants are beautiful AND taste great, too. Enjoy them in salads, on cream cheese sandwiches or make a delicately-scented tea. So there they are, my additions to your list: tomatoes, malabar spinach, passionvine, and "weeds" aka naturalized greens in your area. Thanks for having us!
I live in a much colder climate (mid-atlantic USA), so it may not be the best tropical crop, but it always astonishes me how both cucumbers and zucchini flourish here without any care whatsoever. Some years I can't give them away because of it!
Great tips Mark. I've caught on the sweet potato's ability to withstand the heat. Something else I discovered this season is that they don't mind clay soil. I had a mound of "useless" clay after excavation and on a whim I planted a few tubers there and it is thriving!
Yes here in Puerto Rico the soil is clay red. and the tubers love it. Unfortunately Im diabetic and have to limit them alot. But they are a perfect crop for areas that get hurricanes. The winds decimate the green tops but all those tubers are snug under the ground for eating even if all the rest is devastated.
Hi Mark.......Amaranth and African Nightshade (considered as weeds but now being labelled as "super foods"), okra as well as Moringa do well in the hot, humid season along the Kenya coast as well as inland.
I can agree the sweet potato and kale, are the last veg standing through summer, on minimal rainfall. The purple skinned, white flesh variety of sweet potato, does much better than any of the orange skinned varieties. I find their leafs are smaller (orange variety) and get riddled with holes by pests. Of course, they taste much nicer (and produce better) with supplemental water. One veg that I adore eating, and thrives in the heat, is Spaghetti Squash. Does require watering to get it to flower, but in my low rainfall region, it can grow on much less water than other veg. Certainly less than corn. I also love the Hot-Thai chilli, perennial tree for it's gumption to produce a prolific crop in summer, on minimal water. You really only need one tree, which is economical on water too.
@@Selfsufficientme It's prolific. The only thing I have to watch for is powdery mildew in an uncharacteristically wet summer. Hasn't happened in a while, lol.
Interesting to hear about the sweet potatoes Chris! Thanks for commenting. It's my fist season growing sweet potato and the purple and white ones are STRUGGLING in a wicking bed that has one Beauregard (orange) that is thriving! The leaves are yellowing and just not happy! They get a bit more sun in their side of the bed which I was wondering about too. Tomorrow's job is to put up shade hoops because ... well it's a brutal summer and in a new garden We couldn't get it all done by now! We are in Adelaide so hot and dry is our usual. It never occurred to me that something could possibly benefit from a little less water than a wicking bed provides!!!! If your favourites pick up and grow better with the shade I'll find thus again and let you know.
@@Selfsufficientme ive tried spaghetti squash. Dont cook like spaghetti. Dont taste like spaghetti. Dont taste like much of nothin. It stays crunchy and cellular. I'll take a zuchini any day.
Chaya is a woody perennial that grows like crazy in the hottest weather here in South Florida and survives all year. Great spinach substitute and very nutritious and easy to propagate.
I eat the sweet potato leaf it's actually great in salads I never let nothing go to waste even the chickens eat it it's easy to be grown with the slips are with the actual potato itself so either way you're never going to lose the original line of sweet potato you are growing...
I recently caught wind of this in an Asian cooking show! There's a specific sweet spud vine, that they grow, that they don't actually grow FOR the spuds... they only grow this one vine for it's new growth, being the "sweet potato greens"! I was amazed, especially considering how easy the actual tuber is to grow, apparently - and also how high in vitamins & minerals, allegedly, that particular tuber is to consume! But I'll give it a go anyway... I love small sweet, crunchy, crisp greens on my plate! I like them much more than hot soft things, even if they have caramelized in the roast tray. Haha, always sooo much WIN in the garden!
Yep I'll pile on the cheerleaders for sweet potato leaf. Here's a dead easy recipe straight from the garden: This is better than any spaghetti sauce I've bought, ever. Slice up a couple of cloves of garlic and fry them in a tablespoon of butter with 2 tablespoons crushed dried basil or a good handful of fresh torn up, 3-4 inch sprig of rosemary chopped up, and a pinch of good sea salt. Cook a couple of minutes. Add a tablespoon of olive oil, a cup of thinly sliced zuchinni/summer squash and a cup of shredded kumara leaves and cook till zuchinni is transparent and greens rended down. Add tomatoes. Fresh tomatoes is best shredded with a grater but a can or approximate volume of tomatoes is good too. Add 1/2 teaspoon malt vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar, and 1/3 teaspoon ground cumin seed. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook with a lid on on medium heat as you cook the pasta, or without a lid if you used fresh basil, to let some water out. I like to serve this with pasta, parmesan and sour cream. I'm not a vegetarian, but this is vegetarian fare so good I don't miss the meat. It's also fast, easy and cheap with a garden in place.
We live in hot steamy south Florida in the U.S. and successfully grow okra, snake beans, spinach mustard, Everglades tomatoes and rattle snake beans all summer long. Going to add perpetual spinach now. Thank you very much for sharing.
So many of these videos are virtually tailored to problems/questions which I've been faced with after my first year (almost) of food gardening. This one is particularly helpful with our Western Cape summers which utterly destroyed most of our leafy salad vegetables.
@@chantaltulliez8066 fermented fish or krill or shrimp paste with salt. Despite it being relatively pungent, its complex taste and combination of salty, sweet and umami flavors. Just got this fron google lol
The Egyptian Spinach reminded me of Lamb's Quarter. I thought they were just weeds for a long time. I eventually looked them up and found out they are actually SUPER nutritious. Keep up the great work. Thanks for all the tips!
Great video, thank you Mark! Here in Germany, we have had the 3 hottest and dryest summers ever in 2018, 2019, 2020, scratching 40°C in bigger parts of the country than usual. So it's an upcoming topic here as well. The kale was a really surprising one. It's usually planted in fall for wintertimes, standing on the fields frozen and in snow.
Hello Mark, from a new subscriber. Here in central Texas it also can get extremely hot and dry. After spending many years in IL I thought gardening was easy, but coming here to TX has humbled me. So I really appreciated your review in this video. I have found that my peppers (jalapeño, cayenne, and banana esp) do very well in our heat. They are great roasted/grilled. Cheers!
lol, we are from Ohio and lived in Florida last year. I also thought gardening was easy until we moved south!! I did get it figured out thanks to some great friends, but it sure was a challenge!
I really love your Videos they make me smile. I grew up in Australia and now live in the South of France that gets really hot in the 40s in August September and I am just learning what to grow in these condition thanks for this video its great ....
Turnips also grow well in Qld summer. Back in Scotland they were winter crop but surprisingly they seem to do well in steamy hot summers. I have a 2m x 1m raised bed with 15 turnips which I planted at the end of Sept 22. It's now the end of Oct and the tubers are around 2 inches in diameter.
Soulful veg I'm in SWFL and I'm new to this. Do you know of any channels or books I could look into. I want to start planting but was told veggies start in the fall here. Thank you in advance. Any info helps
@@lokoamerican4934 Green Deane's "Eat the Weeds" is useful also. His focus is on foraging, but you can grow "weeds" and especially wild plants in your garden. (In Chicago, I live off purslane.). Just don't plant and ignore the really aggressive stuff like Anredera cordifolia, maybe don't plant anything on the FL lists of noxious, invasive weeds (kangcong is illegal in Florida, BTW--the state is more paranoid about aquatics than terrestrial weeds because of what water hyacinth did).
@@lokoamerican4934 My go to's are Epic Gardening, Project Diaries,MIgardener, as well as Self Sufficient Me..lol.. Another one I really enjoy is Hollis & Nancy's Homestead.. Try them all and see what works for you.. I also live in Central Florida!!
My extreme season is our summer, the heat shuts a lot of things down. Just added 3 new ones to my list, and thanks for reminding me about sweet potatoes.
Thanks heaps for this. Looking to start planting some summer stuff now. Sweet potatoes - they are the plants more likely to survive cyclones too. From a fellow Queenslander.
I was surprised myself that my Kale was surviving in the Sydney heat. I'm definitely gonna try grow some more. I'm growing regular okra but will definitely give red okra a go! Thanks for the video!
Ever been to Florida? Our sandy soil, myakka, 8 months of drought, and living next to the sun. We have vegetables that love the rough conditions. Seminole pumpkins, Everglades tomatoes, and of course sweet potato are a few veggies we have.
Boca Raton here..I am growing Egyptian spinach (molokhia), bush mint, Lagos spinach, Malabar spinach, cranberry hibiscus, basils, sunflowers, cilantro alternatives like papalo, Vietnamese coriander, and cilantro, maypop, green onions, sissoo spinach, vicks plant and many more. Surprisingly Everglades tomato didn't survive the heat and the nematodes.
@@jeeraindica Mark is pretty good. I've been watching him for a long time. Really inspiring good man. Life is cruel, gardening is a godsend. I love the whole nurturing of it all.
Just be sure to grow enough that you can pickle or fry the pods. With 3 plants in my Chicago garden, I was picking one a week and watching it rot. The foliage is edible cooked but that may reduce the energy available for the pods. Supposedly a relative, Abelmoschus manihot is Tahitian spinach and a great, floweing green. Actually all Abelmoschus have edible greens and flowers, so try a few and see what you like and also likes your area.
Perpetual spinach may also be labeled as thin stemmed chard. I love it. Fabulous in any spinach recipe. I’ve grown walking onions, but it’s so dry here that they are tough and woody for us. I started growing bunching onions. Huge crops and love our heat, which is same as yours, but for 4 month of the year over 104f. Just planted almost 400 sq ft of corn, red polenta and painted hills( old fashioned type corn on the cob when at milk stage then meal or feed corn when dry.) I need to find seed for Egyptian spinach. Sounds yummy. Pickled rat tail seed pods are nice at bbqs and picnics. Water spinach might not do well for us. Our summer humidity is 30 % on a wet day. I’d love to grow it though. I wonder if I could grow it in our guppy tank outside. It’s about 150 gallons, made from an ibc tote cut in half. We grow purple sweet potatoes. Yummy and wonderful for the soil if we don’t get a chance to harvest it. We’ve grown kale over summer as a trap crop for cabbage butterflies and other pests. We let it gather the bugs and give plants and bugs to our chickens . Were a sun hat to avoid sunburn and skin cancer. Coolibar is a great choice.
Thank you so much for this Mark. Last summer saw many failures due to unusual heat. I have mostly been looking for over-wintering growing plants as that has been our 'hungry' period but the seasons are changing so much that the summer is now also a time for exploring new crops to grow in the UK. I find the perpetual spinach is so good to grow through summer and actually stands for most of the winter but if not, it comes back with ease. I've never heard of the Egyptian Onion and am so grateful you introduced us. I don't grow good onions here, only Welsh, Spring-types and the chive family so these look ideal. Egyptian Spinach? Wow, what a great find. I find spinach bolts so much here, I have to buy it. Also great to find I can get the seeds for these on ebay....yay!!! Also, I never tried sweet potato as I thought it would fail here....good new to find we can eat the leaves so if the tubers don't develop well....we still have food :) Kale is probably our easiest to grow veg here. It seems to cope with all weathers but I have to use a net frame against white fly and slugs love it too. The shop bought kale here is the pits but from the garden, it's another animal :)
I find your videos endlessly entertaining . I grow Egyptian walking onions. They survived a FLOOD last year. Also Kale, Brussels sprouts, spinach, corn, tomatoes and caopsiicum.
I'm surprised the okra didn't make your list. Here in the southern US it's a commonly grown summer crop, is pretty much heat and drought resistant, grows fresh pods daily that only take a few days to mature. Gardening year round I'm always looking for plants that can stand the heat in the greenhouse in summer and the lower temps in winter along with the ability to handle low light. I planted some new zealand spinach a couple of years ago and it produces enough to feed an entire family from a small wicking bed and I haven't had to replant it yet. I have a couple of abandoned raised beds that I haven't touched or watered in years and yet there's large clumps of elephant garlic growing in them that I planted at least ten years ago. I like the climate here where I am but the soil is amazingly poor so it's difficult to garden without putting in some types of raise beds. For some reason the metal beds like yours are not popular or easily available. I've tried other materials but they all seem to have drawbacks. Wood rots quickly here, plastics get brittle fast, concrete blocks wick away too much moisture. This year I'm trying some shallow metal beds and so far they seem to be working well. Unfortunately the tall beds like yours are extremely expensive here or I'd try to get some.
Try lining concrete block inside with strips of old carpet before filling with soil/compost. And you can "mulch" with it too. NOTHING stops weeds like carpet and it lasts for years.
I'm considering using super cheap glazed or glass tiles to tile the inside of concrete beds so they don't wick away moisture as much.. Not exactly the cheapest thing but for creating new permanent beds it makes some sense to me. Perhaps I'll even do the outside for decoration.
I hope and pray that y’all are OK in the outback. That the fires have not affected you but I’m sure they probably have , so you are in my prayers and thoughts to y’all, thank you for these videos they are excellent.
I love your content!! I've just recently subscribed to you and after binge watching a few video's went on a trip to Bunnings today and picked up a bunch of herb, fruit and veggie seeds. I'm super excited to see them all grow, thank you for the inspiration 😊 p.s of course I got some mulch and good fertilizer too!! 🙂
Thank you so much for your great videos actually i am Egyptian so i wondered about the Egyptian spinach...of course it’s not really spinach at all but Molukhiya I guess 😃
Hi there. I live in Israel - it's hot summer now. EGG-PLANTs - they really suprised me - grow well and feel so good under the sun. And also SUN-FLOWERs )) Thanks a lot for your ideas. I need to try out corn ))
Amazing timing on this video, I watched the whole thing very attentively! I'm in Melbourne, so probably not anywhere near as hot as it is for you there, and yet STILL everything is going crispy and dying, even though I water every day! Might be a bit late now, but I'm going to buy the seeds for some of these things and give them a try! Thanks for the wonderful video! :)
Will try a few of these next years..I've found the egg plant, chilli and capsicum are particularly thriving in the 43degree heat we've been having here in NE Vic. Great timing & advice in this video as I was starting to wonder if a summer garden is worth it..
@Karen Kneebone Here in adelaide (after 47.2 on Thursday!!!!) The eggplants look FANTASTIC and chilli and capsicum seem pretty happy too. Last few heatwave weeks I've started Sundrying tomatoes.... haha In The Sun! Works a treat! Who'd have thought!!! After this week any tomato leaf not under shade cloth is crunchy though.... This summer is "unprecedented" as all reports keep saying. Can't believe our elected officials seem hell bent on opening a new coal mine on the Barrier Reef!!!
@@stephkrunic3884 I'm in Adelaide too - summer being the big dry. I have spent a lot of money to water gardens, with not much success. Love the sun dried tomatoes!
You sold me on trying rat tail radish! Thank you for that. And my hens LOVE sweet potato vines/leaves to munch on. So happy to find this episode. Summers are getting hotter here in central Florida and I've been looking at different varieties to grow. Stay well and safe!
Several kinds of Peppers, hot and not, will do well in the heat along with egg plant with plenty of water and a chayote squash, (sechium edule), is a good hot weather survivor as well. Here in Texas we understand hot weather. We don't get to 113 F, 45 C. very often though but we do wear hats. Nice video.
Your videos are very informative and not too long, yet it takes me forever to watch them because I have to keep taking screen shots of all the amazing ideas; especially your amazing trellis and those neat hanging rabbit-wire baskets you had onions growing in! Subscribed!
I really enjoy your videos. You always make me smile and laugh plus I learn A LOT! My mother is Japanese and has always had a garden so I thought I had seen a good part of "unusual" vegetables but I have only heard of two of the seven vegetables you have growing in the hot season. Now to hunt down the seeds of these unusual vegetables!
South Texas For greens I grow blue dwarf kale, premier kale, Malibar spinach, longevity spinach, moringa (super easy and no bugs bother it), sweet potatoe leaves. Stewart’s Zeebest Okra gets huge, and the okra doesn’t get woody as fast. Under the okra I plant purple hull peas. They produce all summer. For a green bean try oriental yard long beans. They produce well in the heat. They are slow to get started but then watch out.
I was surprised by the resilience of my Kale to the scorching sun that hits my house year round. Every time the plant was looking rough, it would perk up once again and give us some tasty green leaves!
Another great and entertaining video packed fill of vital information with lol moments. I love you work, love your garden! Have you ever made a video on the history of your gardens development, from beginning to end? Thanks again.
Egyptian onions are amazing. They also become more just by forming new bulbs at the bottom. I use them in stead of spring onions. PS - Love your videos: immediately to the point and focused.
Love the video Mark and your channel. Longevity Spinach is a ripper. We're getting 40.c days here in W.A ,and where half of my plants have been almost melted by the heat, the Longevity spinach didnt bat an eyelid. Helps with blood sugar control and high blood pressure and as far as i know is an old chinese plant that used to grow wild and has been used around the world for eons. Tastes a bit like apple skins. i love it. If you could tell us what that tall kale was? only other thing i could ad is when you take a bite out of something to maybe give your opinion on taste/flavour. Love the show mate, im off to find some egyptian onions! cheers.
I had walking onions on my wish list for years. These have just come in stock. Ordered them last weekend but they aren't here yet so can't comment any more than they are in stock. Good luck! www.thelostseed.com.au/egyptian-walking-onion-1/
Here in Florida where I live at is much like your temperature where you live at so most of the things that you grow I can grow here I don't know about the rain quality that you get there I think you probably receive more but I noticed some of the plants that you have their grow a lot bigger when you get started down towards South Florida things start to grow even bigger different things that is cuz the temperature stays that way year round..
Rain is pretty limited here at the moment so she's drying out fast but hopefully, we can get some good falls soon. Yes, our climates are very similar when I visited Florida in the 90's the temp and humidity felt no different to Brisbane. Warms temps and regular rainfall is a recipe for fast growing plants no doubt about it! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme I'm in coastal Texas, and I'm particularly interested in leafy vegetables (or leaves from fruiting vegetables) that do well in a hot, humid summer climate.
I just wanted to come back to this video and give you a huge thank you for the perpetual spinach suggestion. I'm growing it in Houston Tx and it laughed at our 110F summer and an 18F cold snap this winter (covered). It's delicious and versatile and completely idiot proof. I planted mine in early summer; it's now mid spring and that plant is HUGE!!!
Love your videos. Going to look for some of those veggies in my seed catalogs. QUESTION: do you have video on how you created your self watering raised bed. That looked cool. Please provide the link. Spring will be coming in a couple of months and I can’t wait to watch it so I can plan out my garden.
Mark you are the BEST!!! I love your beautiful property and your sense of humor too. You are a great teacher and I totally enjoy all of your videos so much!!
Love your channel. I’m newer to gardening and learned big lesson with deer. They ate everything. So put up a fence!!! I’m in northern Mississippi & this Summer it is very hot some days 95 degrees. The easiest in the heat for me is Butternut squash. You need room or make arches for it to grow up. But wow put the seeds in the ground & in 3 days 2 inch plants. One month and big leaves on vines & lots of big yellow blooms. It produces large 5 to 10 pound squash. This plant just too off. keeps 3 months without refrigeration. Tastes wonderful & very nutritious. Cantaloupe started quickly but a bit slower to grow big. Cucumbers also seem to keep producing. Watermelon also good in the heat. Trying peppers again because of the deer. Grow till Jesus comes to Rapture His Church! 1 Thess 4:16-17 much love ✨🕊✨
The list:-
0. Red Okra
1. Perpetual Spinach (Loves heat , good all year rounder, good in stir fry)
2. Egyptian Walking Onion
3. Corn/Maize
4. Egyptian Spinach
5. Tat Tailed Radish (seed pods in stir-fry)
6. Kangkong (water spinage)
7. Sweat Potato
8. KALE
Thanks! I'm bad about taking notes and foget half of them by the end.
Thanks for the list dude
charlie brownau thank u
You are the real MVP! THANK YOU!! LOL
Terri T. EECP of
man deserves his own show OR AT LEAST SOME SPONSERSHIP
This is his own show bro..
Jacob that pays him
@@insertfunnyname3478 pretty sure he can get paid from TH-cam videos....
i like that he is on youtube, and not cable or some shit. that way im not supporting people like honey booboo just because i wanna watch 1 awesome show like this
More or less it is kind of made like a tv show or feels like it by the way he casts his videos
Here in Texas I haven’t found anything that is easier to grow through the 100 plus degree summers than okra. Easy, mostly pest resistant, cranks out spears like they were going out of style and just laughs off the sun without even wilting. It’s amazing.
@Jon's Labyrinth Aloe is edible and good for you. Really. So far we've only used small amounts in stir fries, would like to try blending into a brothy soup. I'm just starting to experiment with it. We don't really notice much taste, though. I'm looking for more cooking ideas for it.
I'm in central Texas and garden beans, watermelon and corn also do well.
I’m in austin area and growing sweet potatoes
@@dragonchild36 Try Pithaya this is an amazing fruit.
in the DFW area, Yes I have grown Okra without any issues. Besides i have grown Japanese Eggplants (long variety), string beans, bell peppers, Armenian cucumbers, snake gourd, green beans, broad beans, and bitter gourd for several years. wish could try more vegetables but getting old to keep up with.
I´ve grown those “walking onions” in Scotland and they are incredibly hardy. Mine were a lot stronger in flavour than most varieties. They did good service for our family as they had been passed down the generations for around 40 years from one single original bunch.
Nanny Oggins nice. I’ve never seen them. Need to find a supplier.
They look like shallots. Are they shallots?
Would you pls tell me where you buy walking onion seeds or seedlings? Thx
@@elinpower4326 You don't buy either one. What you buy are the topsets, which are a cluster of bulblets. You separate each topset into the individual bulbils before planting. I bought my original topsets on Ebay, but they are available from numerous sources online, including from many seed companies.
@@rose5566 No they aren't shallots. The plants grow a bulb underground, which can multiply. You can eat the bulbs, the scapes, or the little bulblets which form at the end of a scape. Eventually the plant will bend over under the weight of one or more topsets of little bulblets. Those bulblets will then root and grow wherever they've touched the ground. In that way, the plant can go "walking" across a garden bed.
I think your one of the best garden videos channels on TH-cam that is because you are friendly, humorous, to the point without waffling on about nothing and don’t assume your watchers know nothing.
your videos are like pringles. once you pop you can''t stop
Now you've made me anxious about running out...
Xanax*
6:04AM. Never went to sleep. Probably just gonna watch another and check the garden when the sun comes up. Until then...I’ll watch the chicken videos next.
Ikr this is my 3rd in a row
Shutup idiot
Shared! The native Americans used to cultivate "the 3 sisters": corn, beans, squash. The beans will use the corn height to climb up and the squash will provide the ground cover to keep the moisture in.
You can add in ginger // chillies // lemongrass // brinjals // okras.. they love the sunlight..
what is brinjals?
Good stuff! We also grow Okra, Moringa, Hot Peppers, Calaloo, Seminole Pumpkin, Everglades Tomato, Black Cherry Tomato, Snake Beans, Cassava, and Collard Greens in the heat.
Great list! I've never tried Seminole Pumpkin so going to give it a go. Cheers :)
@imasurvivornthriver Are you from Florida? Those are staples in our Florida Garden :)
imasurvivornthriver calaloo... i have to look that up. thanks!
imasurvivornthriver qq
I need a mentor and a huge yard!!!!!
@1:40 perpetual spinach (variety of chard) stems can be used like celery
@2:28 Egyptian walking onions
@3:29 Corn 🌽/maize
@4:23 Egyptian spinach
@5:06 rat tailed radish
@6:02 kangkong (water spinach)
@7:19 sweet potato
@8:35 kale
Sunflowers are a great hot weather crop and they look great in the garden.
Very true! Great tip/plant recommendation thanks :)
I just added a couple of those in pairs, here n there. I'm in a rental with well established gardens, full of roses, shrubs & native trees. So it's a bit hard to do much gardening into the actual "garden beds".
But sunflowers are my favourite flower ever... So stuff it! A couple here & there won't hurt! 😜😜
I have a heap of sunflowers im waiting on flowering
Makes a great pioneer crop for breaking up hard packed soil.
skategreaser are sunflowers easy to grow? When do you plant them?
This has quickly become quite my favourite gardening/farming channel!
Easily entertaining, educational and comedic
I got back into growing a few things when I saw Kale for $5 and tomatoes for $16/kg.
I now have a couple of trellis' loaded with cherry toms and perpetual supply of bok choi, 2 kale and 2 spinach variants.
I live about 20 minutes from you, and am about the same age, and know the nutritional value of lots of leafy greens in the diet.
Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge. You've been a great motivation for me. And I've motivated a few neighbors to grow stuff, with my cuttings :)
@Claire S spray with soapy water - it works.and check regularly.
@Claire S check out Stefan Sobkowiak; he talks about aphids
@Claire S
- I am near Sandgate north of Brisbane. I have never had a lot of aphid trouble. I hand water with a hose, and they say this knocks them off plants, and they rarely go back on.
- I also spend a lot of time getting the soil right with compost++, and annual manure (cow, horse, chicken). When your soil has good oxygenation and biological life, many of the pests don't hang around.
- I have to use crop covers due to cabbage butterfly, grasshoppers, possums, birds. In winter I use a light mesh, and summer 30-50% shade cloth.
So....we just ordered Walking Onions, a few types of spinach and Swiss Chard, a lettuce/cabbage combo that thrives in summer and more. We love watching your videos - if only YOU sold the seeds you'd reap greater reward, besides knowing that you're influencing the Veggie Farmers of FL, us! Thanks Mark!
Where did you get the walking onions? Trying to get my hands on some in Texas. Did you enjoy them?
@@jackieallgayer9362 sorry for the delay in responding - we bought them online at Rare Seeds. We also buy seeds from Burpee and Urban Seeds. Right now, we have a purple gold strawberry tomato plant that makes delicious, plum-tasting tomatoes. And Brown Jolokia, Brown Moruga and Habanero pepper plants that think they're bushes! The garden always has something interesting. Best of success to you!
This man's word game is nearly as strong as his gardening game. What a legend!
I love this channel, its like watching a TV series but better. Mark you have inspired me to spend most of my weekends in my small suburban backyard transforming it into a little food production playground. Cheers from Dave in Melbourne.
"We quickly found out that they couldn't be grown in summah... bummah"
Give this man an award
Also: Hail the kale.
To add to the list: Nasturtium! It's kept on growing abundantly through the heat of summer while it was too hot for other salad-like plants. If it needs water, the suddenly droopy leaves will tell you and otherwise - it's super easy to grow and the leaves have a good, reliable taste no matter what the weather throws at it. Last year I didn't even know you could eat the leaves, this year it's become one of my favs! The little green pods that form after flowering are also good to eat thin sliced (very spicy). Plus, pollinators love it, so it's good for all!
You're like the Steve Irwin of food foresters!!
I've just gotta say Mark, youre a DAG!! I love that you're spreading the good word about self sufficiency in such a good humoured way and sending that excellent Aussie vibe out to the world: so proud! ♥️ from a fellow dag!! 🤗😉 🇦🇺
"Hail the Kale", ... You're such a Dad, Mark! 😂😂
Thanks for the heads up, & when Summer arrives here properly, in Melbourne, I'll know exactly what will be the sure bet! 🤣👍👍😂😂😂
4 seasons in one day! Cheers Mandie :)
I just want to thank this guy for his contribution to the TH-cam gardening Community: I learned so much from each video and he always makes me laugh
If dad jokes were currency, you'd be a millionaire! I love it 😂 keep it up 👍 thanks for the tips! I'm off to Bunnings tomorrow 😁
pretty sure he's already a millionaire
Him and his ultimate Dad jokes.
Hail the kale 👐
Thank you for making this videos I've been watching for a while. People don't understand how important it is to learn things like this. Specially on this times.
Absolutely right! Nothing to lose & everything to gain from the garden, on so many levels! 💕
They're going to learn if they want to survive.
@@stephanies9071 unfortunately so many people have grown accustomed to get everything handed to them. It's very sad. I've made sure my kids learn all of this
@@jjrh89 that is a great skill to teach the young ones, 🙂. My grandparents did the same for me, one of the best things ever, I love gardening.🙂❤️.
Yes, it's very important! Even a few containers growing some herbs can be such a money saver. Better still is growing one or two things that you can't find at the supermarket because there are so many amazing, healthy, and tasty foods that simply aren't stacked on mainstream retail shelves just waiting to be discovered by backyard food gardeners like us. Cheers :)
I’m loving your puns, “Hale the kale”!!!!
Chaya, amaranth, Malabar spinach, yard long beans, Seminole pumpkins, any cow pea (black eye etc.), true yam, everglades tomato, hot peppers, bush beans. These will all do well in the god forsaken let me know when satan gets here summer. I live in the sub tropics too, it's a miserable friggin season, it's even too hot and muggy if all your doing is lying around the pool drinking mai tai's......I hate it :) Thanks for the vid Mark gg.
Great list thank you! I'm yet to try black-eyed peas or everglades tomato so I'll try and get some! Cheers :)
I've got very limited space here at my apartment, but recently the manager cleared out the planter boxes so folks can plant what they want. Sweet potatoes and the Egyptian walking onions are now on the top of my planting list, along with tomato seedings for a Fall crop. Thanks so much for your gardening videos!
Thank you, Mark, for the great videos, and thank you all for the ideas in the comments! Other plants that grow well here in Mumbai’s heat are arugula, Armenian cucumber, cluster beans (guar), ivy gourd (tendli), elephant yam, ginger, turmeric, melons, and, as you mentioned in the beginning of the video, various gourds like bottle gourd, snake gourd, ridge gourd, bitter gourd, etc.
Also white/golden turnip (mooli) :-)
I live in Alice Springs and found this video super helpful. I have also found Warrigal greens, Brazilian and Malabar spinach do very well all year round and the grasshoppers don’t munch on them either.
When I lived in Texas, USA, I found that peppers generally do okay up to 100 F but can sag a little if temps go over 100F. Also, some bell peppers can become sunburned so a little shade will help. The same can be said for tomatoes. Of course it also depends on how dry and how high the temperature goes.
Bell peppers are the hardiest vegetable for Texas heat
I grew an Italian kale last year, it was absolutely delicious! The leaves were longer, more narrow and very easy to harvest. Did well through the Eastern mid-Atlantic summer.
Ok all I can say is that your videos are amazing. It is so down to earth....no pun intended heh. But they are simple and normal and you cause your viewers to connect with you. Best gardening videos I have ever seen. Please do not stop
Dude! Love your videos. They are on point, informative and fun. You forgot an entire plant family that *adores* the heat: Solanacea, aka tomatoes. I live in barely outside the subtropics in Central Florida. Tomatoes, especially the indeterminate varieties, can be grown year-round here. The smaller the fruit, the easier time it has in the heat. The larger fruits seem to take a LOT out of the plant, so we grow mostly Sweet 100s, Yellow Pears, etc. for our Summer crops. I do have some heirlooms in a shady spot; Cherokee Purple. Japanese tomato rings are a great way to grow them, but I also like 5-gallon buckets. The heirlooms are in the hydroponic tower to ensure adequate moisture.
We also have Malabar Spinach every Summer , which you probably have grown at some point. I LOVE that stuff. Mmmmm so tasty. Tell everyone to look at their local "weeds". Dandelion, Bidens, sorrel, etc are considered to be pests when folks don't eat them often enough to keep the populations in check. We also have a Passionvine that has plans to take over the neighborhood soon (and I think might be harboring an evil plot to take over the world at some point). The new leaves from all those plants are delicious cooked, and the flavors are even better mixed together. Also, Passionvine leaves are medicinal, helping to relieve pain and induce sleep w/out a hangover. (Tastes horrible, be forewarned. IDK why, as the baby leaves are very nice cooked.) Bidens is an effective antibiotic; I've even used it on documented cases of Staph and Strep (meaning they were tested by a doc & the bacteria identified). It's literally a life saver for those of us with severe drug allergies. The flowers of all these plants are beautiful AND taste great, too. Enjoy them in salads, on cream cheese sandwiches or make a delicately-scented tea. So there they are, my additions to your list: tomatoes, malabar spinach, passionvine, and "weeds" aka naturalized greens in your area.
Thanks for having us!
You’re sweating and I’m up here in below freezing waiting for a snow/ice storm, stay cool!
The beauty of TH-cam and the internet but it's still weird how in real time one can be experiencing summer extremes and the other winter! Cheers :)
Self Sufficient Me yes, it makes the world much smaller!
Snow storm over here in Canada lol, can only plan out the garden right now x_x
Did you just ask him to sat cool? Just say, comfortably warm. He is in boiling temps. :-)
Id rather be in the hotness! I hate snowwwww
I live in a much colder climate (mid-atlantic USA), so it may not be the best tropical crop, but it always astonishes me how both cucumbers and zucchini flourish here without any care whatsoever. Some years I can't give them away because of it!
Great tips Mark. I've caught on the sweet potato's ability to withstand the heat. Something else I discovered this season is that they don't mind clay soil. I had a mound of "useless" clay after excavation and on a whim I planted a few tubers there and it is thriving!
Yes here in Puerto Rico the soil is clay red. and the tubers love it. Unfortunately Im diabetic and have to limit them alot. But they are a perfect crop for areas that get hurricanes. The winds decimate the green tops but all those tubers are snug under the ground for eating even if all the rest is devastated.
Hi Mark.......Amaranth and African Nightshade (considered as weeds but now being labelled as "super foods"), okra as well as Moringa do well in the hot, humid season along the Kenya coast as well as inland.
I can agree the sweet potato and kale, are the last veg standing through summer, on minimal rainfall. The purple skinned, white flesh variety of sweet potato, does much better than any of the orange skinned varieties. I find their leafs are smaller (orange variety) and get riddled with holes by pests. Of course, they taste much nicer (and produce better) with supplemental water. One veg that I adore eating, and thrives in the heat, is Spaghetti Squash. Does require watering to get it to flower, but in my low rainfall region, it can grow on much less water than other veg. Certainly less than corn. I also love the Hot-Thai chilli, perennial tree for it's gumption to produce a prolific crop in summer, on minimal water. You really only need one tree, which is economical on water too.
I've never tried spaghetti squash but I must give it a go soon! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme It's prolific. The only thing I have to watch for is powdery mildew in an uncharacteristically wet summer. Hasn't happened in a while, lol.
Interesting to hear about the sweet potatoes Chris! Thanks for commenting. It's my fist season growing sweet potato and the purple and white ones are STRUGGLING in a wicking bed that has one Beauregard (orange) that is thriving! The leaves are yellowing and just not happy! They get a bit more sun in their side of the bed which I was wondering about too. Tomorrow's job is to put up shade hoops because ... well it's a brutal summer and in a new garden We couldn't get it all done by now! We are in Adelaide so hot and dry is our usual. It never occurred to me that something could possibly benefit from a little less water than a wicking bed provides!!!!
If your favourites pick up and grow better with the shade I'll find thus again and let you know.
@@Selfsufficientme ive tried spaghetti squash. Dont cook like spaghetti. Dont taste like spaghetti. Dont taste like much of nothin. It stays crunchy and cellular. I'll take a zuchini any day.
Chaya is a woody perennial that grows like crazy in the hottest weather here in South Florida and survives all year. Great spinach substitute and very nutritious and easy to propagate.
I eat the sweet potato leaf it's actually great in salads I never let nothing go to waste even the chickens eat it it's easy to be grown with the slips are with the actual potato itself so either way you're never going to lose the original line of sweet potato you are growing...
They are delicious in stir fries and Soups as well! Love me some sweet potato greens!
I recently caught wind of this in an Asian cooking show! There's a specific sweet spud vine, that they grow, that they don't actually grow FOR the spuds... they only grow this one vine for it's new growth, being the "sweet potato greens"! I was amazed, especially considering how easy the actual tuber is to grow, apparently - and also how high in vitamins & minerals, allegedly, that particular tuber is to consume!
But I'll give it a go anyway... I love small sweet, crunchy, crisp greens on my plate! I like them much more than hot soft things, even if they have caramelized in the roast tray. Haha, always sooo much WIN in the garden!
Yep I'll pile on the cheerleaders for sweet potato leaf. Here's a dead easy recipe straight from the garden:
This is better than any spaghetti sauce I've bought, ever.
Slice up a couple of cloves of garlic and fry them in a tablespoon of butter with 2 tablespoons crushed dried basil or a good handful of fresh torn up, 3-4 inch sprig of rosemary chopped up, and a pinch of good sea salt. Cook a couple of minutes. Add a tablespoon of olive oil, a cup of thinly sliced zuchinni/summer squash and a cup of shredded kumara leaves and cook till zuchinni is transparent and greens rended down. Add tomatoes. Fresh tomatoes is best shredded with a grater but a can or approximate volume of tomatoes is good too. Add 1/2 teaspoon malt vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar, and 1/3 teaspoon ground cumin seed. Salt and pepper to taste.
Cook with a lid on on medium heat as you cook the pasta, or without a lid if you used fresh basil, to let some water out.
I like to serve this with pasta, parmesan and sour cream.
I'm not a vegetarian, but this is vegetarian fare so good I don't miss the meat. It's also fast, easy and cheap with a garden in place.
OK, the sour cream/cheese null and voids the vegetarian claim hehe :D
@@kiwiwriter Haha, that's where you say "optional", or they can use their vegan equivalents, if so inclined. 👍😜😂😂
We live in hot steamy south Florida in the U.S. and successfully grow okra, snake beans, spinach mustard, Everglades tomatoes and rattle snake beans all summer long. Going to add perpetual spinach now. Thank you very much for sharing.
Hey Mark,
Try amaranth greens. Great taste and versatility. Also quick growing.
Gardening, humor and rhyming. This guy has it all. Great job!
So many of these videos are virtually tailored to problems/questions which I've been faced with after my first year (almost) of food gardening. This one is particularly helpful with our Western Cape summers which utterly destroyed most of our leafy salad vegetables.
Best way to eat kangkong is by blanching it then dip it in bagoong it compliments well with fried fish 😁
I'm from Philippines
What is bagoong please...
@@chantaltulliez8066 fermented fish or krill or shrimp paste with salt. Despite it being relatively pungent, its complex taste and combination of salty, sweet and umami flavors. Just got this fron google lol
The Egyptian Spinach reminded me of Lamb's Quarter. I thought they were just weeds for a long time. I eventually looked them up and found out they are actually SUPER nutritious. Keep up the great work. Thanks for all the tips!
Kangkong! Yeah!! I love that vege. So famous in Malaysia. We used to cooked nasi goreng kampung with kangkung!. 🙋
Definitely want to do walking onions and those rat-tail radishes! Going to plant six of those recommendations. Thanks for sharing!
The sweet potato leaves are used in many dishes here in the Philippines, and its very nutritious!
Yummy too❤
Great video, thank you Mark!
Here in Germany, we have had the 3 hottest and dryest summers ever in 2018, 2019, 2020, scratching 40°C in bigger parts of the country than usual. So it's an upcoming topic here as well. The kale was a really surprising one. It's usually planted in fall for wintertimes, standing on the fields frozen and in snow.
Hello Mark, from a new subscriber. Here in central Texas it also can get extremely hot and dry. After spending many years in IL I thought gardening was easy, but coming here to TX has humbled me. So I really appreciated your review in this video. I have found that my peppers (jalapeño, cayenne, and banana esp) do very well in our heat. They are great roasted/grilled. Cheers!
lol, we are from Ohio and lived in Florida last year. I also thought gardening was easy until we moved south!! I did get it figured out thanks to some great friends, but it sure was a challenge!
Id love some hot weather atm Mark lol. Fantastic veg there and I love Kale does so well here. Great stuff Mark
Cheers Tony - sending you some warm weather soon mate! :)
@@Selfsufficientme Fantastic look forward to it Mark :)
I really love your Videos they make me smile. I grew up in Australia and now live in the South of France that gets really hot in the 40s in August September and I am just learning what to grow in these condition thanks for this video its great ....
Turnips also grow well in Qld summer. Back in Scotland they were winter crop but surprisingly they seem to do well in steamy hot summers.
I have a 2m x 1m raised bed with 15 turnips which I planted at the end of Sept 22. It's now the end of Oct and the tubers are around 2 inches in diameter.
Love this. I'm in central Florida, and we have a similar climate. This helps!
Soulful veg I'm in SWFL and I'm new to this. Do you know of any channels or books I could look into. I want to start planting but was told veggies start in the fall here. Thank you in advance. Any info helps
@@lokoamerican4934 check out some of the earlier videos from David the Good. Cheers
@@lokoamerican4934 Green Deane's "Eat the Weeds" is useful also. His focus is on foraging, but you can grow "weeds" and especially wild plants in your garden. (In Chicago, I live off purslane.). Just don't plant and ignore the really aggressive stuff like Anredera cordifolia, maybe don't plant anything on the FL lists of noxious, invasive weeds (kangcong is illegal in Florida, BTW--the state is more paranoid about aquatics than terrestrial weeds because of what water hyacinth did).
@@lokoamerican4934 My go to's are Epic Gardening, Project Diaries,MIgardener, as well as Self Sufficient Me..lol.. Another one I really enjoy is Hollis & Nancy's Homestead.. Try them all and see what works for you.. I also live in Central Florida!!
Hey Neighbor!! I live in central Florida too!!
I love this channel. Beats Better Homes and Gardens by far.
My extreme season is our summer, the heat shuts a lot of things down. Just added 3 new ones to my list, and thanks for reminding me about sweet potatoes.
Thanks heaps for this. Looking to start planting some summer stuff now. Sweet potatoes - they are the plants more likely to survive cyclones too. From a fellow Queenslander.
I was surprised myself that my Kale was surviving in the Sydney heat. I'm definitely gonna try grow some more. I'm growing regular okra but will definitely give red okra a go! Thanks for the video!
Ever been to Florida? Our sandy soil, myakka, 8 months of drought, and living next to the sun. We have vegetables that love the rough conditions. Seminole pumpkins, Everglades tomatoes, and of course sweet potato are a few veggies we have.
Boca Raton here..I am growing Egyptian spinach (molokhia), bush mint, Lagos spinach, Malabar spinach, cranberry hibiscus, basils, sunflowers, cilantro alternatives like papalo, Vietnamese coriander, and cilantro, maypop, green onions, sissoo spinach, vicks plant and many more. Surprisingly Everglades tomato didn't survive the heat and the nematodes.
@@jeeraindica Mark is pretty good. I've been watching him for a long time. Really inspiring good man. Life is cruel, gardening is a godsend. I love the whole nurturing of it all.
Okra is a great hot-weather veggie that we love here in the US southern states
Just be sure to grow enough that you can pickle or fry the pods. With 3 plants in my Chicago garden, I was picking one a week and watching it rot. The foliage is edible cooked but that may reduce the energy available for the pods. Supposedly a relative, Abelmoschus manihot is Tahitian spinach and a great, floweing green. Actually all Abelmoschus have edible greens and flowers, so try a few and see what you like and also likes your area.
Perpetual spinach may also be labeled as thin stemmed chard. I love it. Fabulous in any spinach recipe. I’ve grown walking onions, but it’s so dry here that they are tough and woody for us. I started growing bunching onions. Huge crops and love our heat, which is same as yours, but for 4 month of the year over 104f.
Just planted almost 400 sq ft of corn, red polenta and painted hills( old fashioned type corn on the cob when at milk stage then meal or feed corn when dry.)
I need to find seed for Egyptian spinach. Sounds yummy. Pickled rat tail seed pods are nice at bbqs and picnics.
Water spinach might not do well for us. Our summer humidity is 30 % on a wet day. I’d love to grow it though. I wonder if I could grow it in our guppy tank outside. It’s about 150 gallons, made from an ibc tote cut in half.
We grow purple sweet potatoes. Yummy and wonderful for the soil if we don’t get a chance to harvest it.
We’ve grown kale over summer as a trap crop for cabbage butterflies and other pests. We let it gather the bugs and give plants and bugs to our chickens . Were a sun hat to avoid sunburn and skin cancer. Coolibar is a great choice.
Thank you so much for this Mark. Last summer saw many failures due to unusual heat. I have mostly been looking for over-wintering growing plants as that has been our 'hungry' period but the seasons are changing so much that the summer is now also a time for exploring new crops to grow in the UK. I find the perpetual spinach is so good to grow through summer and actually stands for most of the winter but if not, it comes back with ease. I've never heard of the Egyptian Onion and am so grateful you introduced us. I don't grow good onions here, only Welsh, Spring-types and the chive family so these look ideal. Egyptian Spinach? Wow, what a great find. I find spinach bolts so much here, I have to buy it. Also great to find I can get the seeds for these on ebay....yay!!! Also, I never tried sweet potato as I thought it would fail here....good new to find we can eat the leaves so if the tubers don't develop well....we still have food :)
Kale is probably our easiest to grow veg here. It seems to cope with all weathers but I have to use a net frame against white fly and slugs love it too. The shop bought kale here is the pits but from the garden, it's another animal :)
I find your videos endlessly entertaining . I grow Egyptian walking onions. They survived a FLOOD last year. Also Kale, Brussels sprouts, spinach, corn, tomatoes and caopsiicum.
I'm surprised the okra didn't make your list. Here in the southern US it's a commonly grown summer crop, is pretty much heat and drought resistant, grows fresh pods daily that only take a few days to mature. Gardening year round I'm always looking for plants that can stand the heat in the greenhouse in summer and the lower temps in winter along with the ability to handle low light. I planted some new zealand spinach a couple of years ago and it produces enough to feed an entire family from a small wicking bed and I haven't had to replant it yet. I have a couple of abandoned raised beds that I haven't touched or watered in years and yet there's large clumps of elephant garlic growing in them that I planted at least ten years ago. I like the climate here where I am but the soil is amazingly poor so it's difficult to garden without putting in some types of raise beds. For some reason the metal beds like yours are not popular or easily available. I've tried other materials but they all seem to have drawbacks. Wood rots quickly here, plastics get brittle fast, concrete blocks wick away too much moisture. This year I'm trying some shallow metal beds and so far they seem to be working well. Unfortunately the tall beds like yours are extremely expensive here or I'd try to get some.
Try lining concrete block inside with strips of old carpet before filling with soil/compost. And you can "mulch" with it too. NOTHING stops weeds like carpet and it lasts for years.
Those metal beds are expensive here too. Good tip about carpet / bricks. Sleepers are another good choice.
Red okra was first thing he mentioned😁
@@patriot20000 there's a ton of chemicals in carpets, so probably not the safest option.
I'm considering using super cheap glazed or glass tiles to tile the inside of concrete beds so they don't wick away moisture as much.. Not exactly the cheapest thing but for creating new permanent beds it makes some sense to me. Perhaps I'll even do the outside for decoration.
I hope and pray that y’all are OK in the outback. That the fires have not affected you but I’m sure they probably have , so you are in my prayers and thoughts to y’all, thank you for these videos they are excellent.
I love your content!! I've just recently subscribed to you and after binge watching a few video's went on a trip to Bunnings today and picked up a bunch of herb, fruit and veggie seeds.
I'm super excited to see them all grow, thank you for the inspiration 😊
p.s of course I got some mulch and good fertilizer too!! 🙂
Great stuff Ebony get into it... I'm glad you've got the food growing bug! :)
i absolutely love watching these videos. He gives off such awesome Uncle type vibes
Thank you so much for your great videos actually i am Egyptian so i wondered about the Egyptian spinach...of course it’s not really spinach at all but Molukhiya I guess 😃
Hi there. I live in Israel - it's hot summer now. EGG-PLANTs - they really suprised me - grow well and feel so good under the sun. And also SUN-FLOWERs )) Thanks a lot for your ideas. I need to try out corn ))
Amazing timing on this video, I watched the whole thing very attentively! I'm in Melbourne, so probably not anywhere near as hot as it is for you there, and yet STILL everything is going crispy and dying, even though I water every day! Might be a bit late now, but I'm going to buy the seeds for some of these things and give them a try! Thanks for the wonderful video! :)
Glad this vid came in handy! :)
I live in Florida. So yes, I'm taking notes on this video. Thanks for all your videos!
Will try a few of these next years..I've found the egg plant, chilli and capsicum are particularly thriving in the 43degree heat we've been having here in NE Vic. Great timing & advice in this video as I was starting to wonder if a summer garden is worth it..
Summer gardens are definitely worth it Karen! Cheers :)
@Karen Kneebone
Here in adelaide (after 47.2 on Thursday!!!!) The eggplants look FANTASTIC and chilli and capsicum seem pretty happy too. Last few heatwave weeks I've started Sundrying tomatoes.... haha In The Sun! Works a treat! Who'd have thought!!! After this week any tomato leaf not under shade cloth is crunchy though.... This summer is "unprecedented" as all reports keep saying.
Can't believe our elected officials seem hell bent on opening a new coal mine on the Barrier Reef!!!
I've been feeling the same way, Karen, in Adelaide
@@stephkrunic3884 I'm in Adelaide too - summer being the big dry. I have spent a lot of money to water gardens, with not much success. Love the sun dried tomatoes!
You are the Bob Ross of gardening. Love it!
You sold me on trying rat tail radish! Thank you for that. And my hens LOVE sweet potato vines/leaves to munch on. So happy to find this episode. Summers are getting hotter here in central Florida and I've been looking at different varieties to grow. Stay well and safe!
Several kinds of Peppers, hot and not, will do well in the heat along with egg plant with plenty of water and a chayote squash, (sechium edule), is a good hot weather survivor as well. Here in Texas we understand hot weather. We don't get to 113 F, 45 C. very often though but we do wear hats. Nice video.
Your videos are very informative and not too long, yet it takes me forever to watch them because I have to keep taking screen shots of all the amazing ideas; especially your amazing trellis and those neat hanging rabbit-wire baskets you had onions growing in! Subscribed!
I really enjoy your videos. You always make me smile and laugh plus I learn A LOT!
My mother is Japanese and has always had a garden so I thought I had seen a good part of "unusual" vegetables but I have only heard of two of the seven vegetables you have growing in the hot season.
Now to hunt down the seeds of these unusual vegetables!
I love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
As a Floridian these videos are a godsend
Great video, we have a similar growing climate here in south central Florida. Looking forward to planting some of these.
South Texas
For greens I grow blue dwarf kale, premier kale, Malibar spinach, longevity spinach, moringa (super easy and no bugs bother it), sweet potatoe leaves.
Stewart’s Zeebest Okra gets huge, and the okra doesn’t get woody as fast. Under the okra I plant purple hull peas. They produce all summer.
For a green bean try oriental yard long beans. They produce well in the heat. They are slow to get started but then watch out.
"They couldn't be grown through summer... bummer.." Sheer poetry.. 😂
I was surprised by the resilience of my Kale to the scorching sun that hits my house year round. Every time the plant was looking rough, it would perk up once again and give us some tasty green leaves!
Another great and entertaining video packed fill of vital information with lol moments. I love you work, love your garden! Have you ever made a video on the history of your gardens development, from beginning to end? Thanks again.
Thank you! I've mentioned the history in several vids but never dedicated a video to it - probably be worth doing. Cheers :)
I don't grow anything yet but I still listen because you are more relaxing than the news. 🤣
You rule man! I always smile when I see your videos!
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Egyptian onions are amazing. They also become more just by forming new bulbs at the bottom. I use them in stead of spring onions. PS - Love your videos: immediately to the point and focused.
You are truly a godsend. And great humor too! cheers
so glad I found this channel. I am new to gardening (and relatively "old" to be starting). You make it so much less intimidating. Thank you!
Love the video Mark and your channel. Longevity Spinach is a ripper. We're getting 40.c days here in W.A ,and where half of my plants have been almost melted by the heat, the Longevity spinach didnt bat an eyelid. Helps with blood sugar control and high blood pressure and as far as i know is an old chinese plant that used to grow wild and has been used around the world for eons. Tastes a bit like apple skins. i love it. If you could tell us what that tall kale was? only other thing i could ad is when you take a bite out of something to maybe give your opinion on taste/flavour. Love the show mate, im off to find some egyptian onions! cheers.
Got to get some Longevity spinach! Thanks for the tips! Cheers mate :)
I had walking onions on my wish list for years. These have just come in stock. Ordered them last weekend but they aren't here yet so can't comment any more than they are in stock. Good luck!
www.thelostseed.com.au/egyptian-walking-onion-1/
dinosaur kale is the tall, long skinny leafed, dark green one.
@@kathychristensen5774 also called lacinato kale
It's true, kale is amazingly good even in blistering hot summers. But yeah, the bugs do love it too.
Here in Florida where I live at is much like your temperature where you live at so most of the things that you grow I can grow here I don't know about the rain quality that you get there I think you probably receive more but I noticed some of the plants that you have their grow a lot bigger when you get started down towards South Florida things start to grow even bigger different things that is cuz the temperature stays that way year round..
Rain is pretty limited here at the moment so she's drying out fast but hopefully, we can get some good falls soon. Yes, our climates are very similar when I visited Florida in the 90's the temp and humidity felt no different to Brisbane. Warms temps and regular rainfall is a recipe for fast growing plants no doubt about it! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme I'm in coastal Texas, and I'm particularly interested in leafy vegetables (or leaves from fruiting vegetables) that do well in a hot, humid summer climate.
I just wanted to come back to this video and give you a huge thank you for the perpetual spinach suggestion. I'm growing it in Houston Tx and it laughed at our 110F summer and an 18F cold snap this winter (covered). It's delicious and versatile and completely idiot proof. I planted mine in early summer; it's now mid spring and that plant is HUGE!!!
You had me at "A lot growing on".
We need more puns on TH-cam.
I really want to get into this but know nothing of farming or gardening, not even the basics. There's so much I need to know!! Where to start?
Love your videos. Going to look for some of those veggies in my seed catalogs. QUESTION: do you have video on how you created your self watering raised bed. That looked cool. Please provide the link. Spring will be coming in a couple of months and I can’t wait to watch it so I can plan out my garden.
Mark you are the BEST!!! I love your beautiful property and your sense of humor too. You are a great teacher and I totally enjoy all of your videos so much!!
Amaranth is another you should grow, also moringa.
Love your channel. I’m newer to gardening and learned big lesson with deer. They ate everything. So put up a fence!!! I’m in northern Mississippi & this Summer it is very hot some days 95 degrees. The easiest in the heat for me is Butternut squash. You need room or make arches for it to grow up. But wow put the seeds in the ground & in 3 days 2 inch plants. One month and big leaves on vines & lots of big yellow blooms. It produces large 5 to 10 pound squash. This plant just too off. keeps 3 months without refrigeration. Tastes wonderful & very nutritious. Cantaloupe started quickly but a bit slower to grow big. Cucumbers also seem to keep producing. Watermelon also good in the heat. Trying peppers again because of the deer. Grow till Jesus comes to Rapture His Church!
1 Thess 4:16-17 much love ✨🕊✨