Central Texas Garden Tour (it’s 108 degrees today 🤯)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2023
- In Texas we know we get hot weather. But this year (and last year) are really hot especially when you’re trying to grow things outside. 
It is still possible to grow a few things, but a lot of patience and a lot of water is required.
Tips on what can still grown (and how) in REALLY hot weather.
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So glad I found your channel!! I need to learn more about Texas gardening in this crazy heat!!
Dallas. Got rid of grass. Woodchips on black gumbo clay for years. Melons and watermelons, corn and grapes and fig trees and okra and beans and tons of flowers. Never water once so far. Harvested juicy watermelon last week. Ripped out all my lawn sprinkler system. Don’t need to ware 4,500+ gallons of water watering useless lawn grass when you don have it anymore. More the. 75% or more of a home owners water use is for useless lawns.
I’m all for more garden and less grass!
You are doing wonderful things with your high tunnel in the heart of Texas. A challenging climate. It is people like you that will negotiate the tricky weather changes. Thank you for sharing and videoing.
I've had 107+ for 4 days in a row multiple times this summer, and 105+ for weeks. I am no longer trying to grow things as much as I am just trying to keep things alive. Plants cannot photosynthesize at temps over 105. We are going to turn into barren dessert in the next 20 years, imo.
Wow, I didn’t know that about 105 degrees. 100% on just trying to keep things alive!
I feel your pain! We live in Round Rock and have been *trying* to grow food. This next year I will start the food gardening in February and use frost covering when needed.
100%, have you tried fall gardening?
I only transplant tomatoes and peppers in September. I did mine last week. They go until end of November beginning of December when we have the first frost. Which is plenty of time to get what we want out of them.
Cantaloupe does well in Texas. I’ve had 10+ on one plant, well watered and in shallow soil.
Me to. No melons yet but,looking good. High hopes.
I'm in Austin and my garden is done. 😂 I'm a container gardener, so its been a struggle with the watering. Most of my plants didn't make it. Nothing produced really. Flowers dropping. So I'm preparing for fall. Washing and sterilizing my pots and getting spoil ready.. Fall is my favorite, cause I love Asian greens.
Yes! Asian greens grow so well here!
Wonderful video!
I’m near Houston. This summer is absolutely unbearable. We need rain so bad. It’s been weeks. An occasional thunderstorm would make things much less miserable 😩
A thunderstorm sounds incredible, there were a few clouds today and I got overly excited. Nothing happened though 🤔🌧️
I have two bell pepper and 2 tomato plants left. I hope they make it through this Texas heat. I would love to see your process on how and what you start for your fall garden.
Thanks for the encouragement! Working on that video this week 🙌
New subscriber here! So thankful to find this video and your channel. We started our veggie garden a few years ago and still have a lot to learn, but eggplant is our favorite :)
I’d love an update for this year too!
Me to. Just found her channel. ❤😊
I'm in 8a and what I do is instead of starting new tomatoes from seed, I TOP my tomatoes, I get them to root, and then I have a whole new headstart on a new batch, without having to start from seed. It puts me way ahead of the game.
the climate is extreme in Texas.... extremely dry sometimes, extremely wet when it is raining, extremely cold when a February "arctic express" blue norther blows in, extremely hot in the summer with heat-stroke levels of heat, and yes, for a few weeks of the year in the fall & spring, extremely nice... mild winters, people who moved down from the north never complain about the lack of sub-zero temps, blizzards, snow drifts, and snow plows... year-round gardening & outdoor sports like golf, tennis, & bicycling... a nasty hurricane about once every five years if you live on the coast, and sometimes tornados in the spring... must not be that bad since people keep moving down (or up)
Here in Wisconsin are plants are just starting to produce tomatoes 🍅 . I’ve gotten quite a few cucumbers 🥒 plants are starting to produce peppers 🌶️ and potatoes 🥔 are doing really well. i’m about to plant out tomatillo’s and another type of pepper called pretty in purple. thank you for your video. God bless you and your family. Duane. ✝️💜
Sounds amazing 🙌 so glad your peppers and tomatoes are doing well!
I'm in N Central Texas and lots of your plants look like mine. My eggplants look like they have the same problem yours have. I keep having flowers and they fall off. I did get one in early spring {I over wintered My black beauty}. I want to keep all 3 alive and try to do that again. Today was 108 here.
Summers are so challenging in Texas, especially the last two. Hope your fall winter crop is great!
I'm in extreme heat too, but dry. 105-110 is normal for 2 or 3 months long. I can't grow tomatoes or cucamelon during this time either. They will not fruit. The dry is hard on plants too. I imagine your area feels like living in a sauna, for us it's like living in a dehydrator. They are both hard on plants.
I am only imagine what effect dry has on the plants, and especially the soil. I have heard covering the soil with several inches of straw in hot (and even more so in hot and dry) climates, I don’t think I have enough straw on mine this year 🤔
I'm just north of you in Bell County and SO over this heat. We've been triples for about six weeks now.
Ugh. Yes, the heat is overwhelming this year!
5th generation Texan from Corsicana. Thanks.
Hello from Austin! Glad I found your channel!
Welcome!
Central Texan here. Trying to do more heat-loving crops. Last summer was brutal. Fall gardens are much more pleasant here.
...and yes, that is indeed Thai Basil, as far as I can tell. The purple flowers and strong smell give it away. What you pointed at as possible Amaranth does not look like any Amaranth varieties I've grown, but hard to tell without the flower. Also, I do not think mint enjoys heat at all. I've usually grown mint in the shade in Texas. Heat lovers are more like Amaranth, Malabar Spinach, Armanian Cucumbers, and some varieties of Melons. I believe the term you looking for to describe blackberry stems was "cane." My Blackberry does the same thing and looks about the same.
Cane! Thank you 🙏
Hey fellow Texan Gardner 🎉. You enjoying the cooler temps
Yes! Though it knocked out my summer veggies pretty quickly!
@@LiveandLearnGardening yea I got my last pepper haul
do you grow any flowers? i'm in austin too
You don't seem to have watering restrictions. Ours in the country outside of Leander are super strict and the water available is so limited.
We do have watering restrictions for lawn and sprinklers, drip systems and hand watering are classed differently I believe.
Could you talk about an August garden
Yes I can! Are you looking for information on what to plant or what one looks like?
The global warming crisis plus el nino are making food gardening extra challenging in our area. Your raised beds are attractive but they are metal and concrete Try shade cloth over the entire area next summer. This will be the coolest summer moving forward as the second year of el ninos are historically hotter. Climate scientists are predicting that el nino could be around longer than usual. Kill your lawn! Plant more natives! Support our native creatures and enjoy a more resilient, beautiful landscape.
Agree on shade cloth! I definitely need more of it, it made a huge difference once we put it up this year. Next year worse??? Ugh.