7 Perfect Vegetables to Grow in Hot Climates
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
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If you're like me, you also deal with pretty hot temps during the hotter months of the year, so in this video @jacquesinthegarden and I cover 7 crops that can easily handle the heat and will save you a lot of time and headache!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Malabar Spinach
01:30 - Okra
02:47 - Sweet Potatoes
04:34 - Summer Squash
05:33 - Peppers
07:52 - Tepary Beans
08:36 - Sunflowers
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In the South, where heat and humidity are the problem and nighttime temps don’t drop below 80 until at least September, in my experience, the things that really thrive are peppers, eggplants, certain squashes (spaghetti squash grow like weeds), mouse melons, sweet potatoes, okra, pole beans, red noodle beans, and cowpeas. If you live in a particularly hot and humid place, I especially recommend noodle beans. I put mine on an 8 foot tall bamboo tipi trellis and they swallowed it. We had more beans than we knew what to do with! They produced 18 inch long pencil thin purple pods for three solid months! We even ended up freezing a couple gallon bags full of cut beans for later.
Yeah, these people are in San Diego which is really the perfect climate for a garden -- basically 70f (21c) year round.
Im in southern NC and I literally grow everything you listed. My garden has been loving the weather for the last two months and looks fantastic.
Thank you for these recommendations!!!
Malabar Spinach grows very well with okra as its trellis. Sweet potato leaves are also a delicious spinach substitute. Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean is a super productive pole bean. If you live in an area where vine borers are a problem, look for moschata or argyrosperma type squashes.
Sometimes I want to try these things in Scotland just to see how poorly they actually do here 😂
New Zealand has simiilar issues ! 😢😢
LOL the ultimate experiment
I have seen farmers try out farming sweet potatoes here commercially with decent succes so if it works in the northern Netherlands it might work in Scotland too :D
If some do survive, then you can save their seeds and regrown them each season until you have isolated the genes that help it survive there.
@@JP-qg2uq🙂👍
A suggestion for really hot climates, water the peppers(or any plant really) early in the morning. It gives them time to soak up the water before the heat sets in and it decreases the likelihood of cooking your plants
I will try this for mi struggling peppers, thank you
And typically, try to water the ground /mulch rather than the leaves, especially if you can only water in the evening
That will burn the leaves when they dry.
Saves the trouble of cooking your own peppers!
I water in the evening.
Love the growing tips you provide but I really like the history you give of the plants you are growing. Keep it up and thank you
Glad you like them!
@@epicgardening Just for the record: "Malabar" is pronounced with the first A as in "salt"
the "a" as in "cat" sound pretty much doesn't exist in Indian words
Due to family needs I had to leave my garden for a month. The tomatoes had been given a string attachment to conduit 6 ft above. When I came back the raised bed was out of control. 2 weeks later the trellis went partially down in a windstorm. It took my full hanging weight to pull it upright again. There are probably a 1000 cherry tomatoes set on plants that are 11 or 12 ft in length. It is a jungle but no disease I attribute to starting in 32 inch tall raised beds and some early low area trimming.
For some time I had been dreaming of growing eggplants but I thought I would need to be living somewhere more southern location than Finland to be able to do it. This spring I realized that what the heck, I have a glassed southern facing balcony that heats up during the summer for temperatures that aren’t comfortable for humans so it must be adequate for eggplants… And it was! I have already harvested two sizable fruits and more is coming. They aren’t patio varieties but just normal ones. One hybrid is a long narrow style and one is the black beauty. I am a pretty proud eggplant mama now🍆☺️
I don’t have a space where I can garden but when I get the space, I will grow these plants!
I'm in Sweden.
I tend to grow Chilli's in pots, stick them out on the balcony in the summer for them to get the all day and most of the night sun.. Then when it gets cooler, bring the pots in. To save them from the dark and frozen conditions. Trim them if they've got a bit dangley, and when it starts to warm up again straight back out on the balcony, and cut them into a better shape. As they're a few years old they recover really fast from being cut back and bush out really well. Have Habanero's, some finger chilli's and currently growing some Bhut Jolokia.
Love growing all Chilli's for making hot sauce.
Thank you for this. Living in the Az low desert, I really appreciate it. Would you consider doing a segment on sun scald? Identifying vs disease/pest, prevention, dealing with, etc.
We'll add to list!
I'd appreciate that, also. 😎👍
Topping peppers makes the plant bush out more, but also increases the time to harvest.
In my opinion, don’t top at all if you’re in zone 8 or colder. It only makes sense for really warm zones.
If you’re going to top, only do it to plants that typically grow tall and lanky. Typically capsicum annuum. Don’t do it to varieties that are already bushy, like Chinense and Baccatum. Especially don’t do it to super hots, because your fruit won’t ripen because your plant’s growth will be delayed.
Agree
7a Oklahoma, I top my smaller peppers and have plenty of time to harvest. I've already harvested 100+ shishitos ❤
@stormraven4183 same with my black pearl peppers after topping. Keep growing!
Malibar spinach drops seeds like mad! I've found it to become crazy invasive.
Peppers really are amazing for hot climates, and here in Portugal (10b equivalent I believe) they overwinter pretty easily without any care. My peri-peri has been producing continuously (even during winter) for the past 3 years and it keep growing larger!
Portugal, Spain, France... have good climates for growing veggies. I wish I have that kind of weather. Growing things in the high desert is not fun.
If you are in a cooler climate and want to grow sweet potatoes, try to find a NZ "Kumera" as these varieties developed in NZ, initially by the Moari and later by the Pakeha, are the most cold tolerant sweet potatoes.
Sunflowers have got to be my favorite flowers. They're so big and dramatic, birds go crazy for the seeds, and they'll just seed themselves in random spots of the garden not a care in the world.
I feel a dopamine rush when I watch your videos. Keep them coming! I’ve always been into gardening but every time I watch your videos I get more and more stoked to expand my garden and try something new. Thank you!
Another plant that I know that loves the heat and hot climates would be Strawberries. For all of the fall and winter they are dormant and in spring they grow leafs but nothing really else. But when it hits summer it gets very hot and they start growing multiple flowers and also branch out and make new Strawberry Plants.
Cow/field peas are another heat loving candidate for vegetable gardens
Good mentioning of the sunflower! I've found it to be the perfect companion plant. Air temperature under the leaves tends to be several degrees cooler than the days temperature which allows you to grow less heat tolerant plants underneath wonderfully
@8-Bit Andy That's awesome! I think it will be an essential strategy for gardening as temperatures increase further
Louisiana grower here - amaranth and Egyptian spinach is a good spinach substitute for greens in the summer, Everglades tomato does well in the heat, and tromboncino squash and cucuzzi squash are more vine borer resistant. I grow pumpkins almost all year because we can, and eat those like young squash. Zinnias won’t quit if you deadhead. Okra is ok, sweet potatoes you can do any variety but I love the white- and then for fall crops for us it’s almost time to plant seeds (in July) for brassicas since our cold window and frost are so close together and weird 😅
Oh, I didn't know you can eat amaranth leaves! I'm trying my hand at some Love Lies Bleeding this year, but I was just thinking I might be able to harvest the seeds -- I'll definitely have to try the leaves now, too :D
I live in the South. It’s usually hot. But it’s been raining so much! It hasn’t been super hot but I’m thankful I think??
I’m growing Alabama red and eagle pass okra 😅
Do you WOOP IT?
@@myurbangarden7695 ???
You should grow cassava grows from sticks do good in heat just give then a good start with water and they'll grow like crazy we harvest after 6-7 months
From Antigua & Barbuda
Cassava didn't originate here though
Will try it!
We grow them in Florida.
@@epicgardening 👍
Would love to see examples of fruits and veggies and how to manage them that are good to grow in the Texas climate. A place that can be 20 degrees in the winter and 105 in the summer😅
Definitely grow the malabar spinach! It works so well in the texas heat! I live deep in south texas and it will get better with the heat. Sweet potatoes, and okra will also grow really well...
@@j.d.x4451 thanks for the insight!
I’m in central Texas and I feel your pain 🥵 definitely recommend okra! Asian beans also do really well here - Chinese noodle beans, Thai soldier beans. They are a different texture than a typical green bean but they’re good in their own way.
Also - invest in some shade cloth for the summer months! It’s a game changer 😊
@@lyndshurt perfect thanks!
My mom always grows Armenian cucumbers. They're technically a melon but taste like a mild cucumber and love the heat. She does say that they have to be well watered but if given the proper amount of water they'll thrive. We're gardening in East Texas.
Peppers in the HATCH family have done so well in our HOT DRY area. I love the Burgundy OKRA. Put it in gumbo or air fry it and it is such a good conversation starter.
You know, I'm something of a warmth-loving vegetable myself.
I fell in love with zinnia and amaranth last year. I live where it gets 110 in the summer so a lot of flowers don't grow in the siunmer but these did amazing. I've also heard Armenian cucumber for a more heat tolerant cucumber but i haven't tried it yet
Just heard from a neighborhood gardener (N Texas zone 8) that he’s having great luck with Armenian cucumber. He is a very good gardener admittedly but our summers are brutal heat/dry, hot/brutal humidity/dry, hot/wet, there is no “typical” except stuck-inside hot. I will try Arm cucumber next yr for sure.
In Central California Valley temps are often over 100. Armenian cucumbers do great!
The grand kids found June bugs out in masse at nightime eating my moms rose bushes.
i would love to see one for cooler climates! i live in 10a but we get maybe 30 days above 80 degrees so its hard to get things to grow sometimes!
I'm in AZ, zone 9b, and peppers really can take the heat! 🔥 This year, I'm growing over 30 varieties in my little balcony garden! 😊
Hey!! How did you learn to garden here? I’m from the Midwest so it’s been extremely difficult lol
AWESOME TEACHING 👌
Hey I love your videos! Can you do a video reviewing different online websites to source different fruit/ nut trees and berry bushes?
Will consider!
Okra also has some of my favorite flowers in the garden! Another seed a friend sent me a couple of years ago that does great in the heat is gandules. It's also a really pretty plant (huge!) when flowering.
I’ll look that up
Pigeon pea. Cool
Yes, okra has hibiscus-like flowers. An intriguing-looking plant, overall.
Learn something new every day! I did not know you could eat the whole sunflower plants 🌻 😮. I planted one of the max sunflowers a few years ago & the birds have scattered them & I have an entire bed of them 😂. I’m going to try to transplant clumps of them & see how it goes. The roasted head 👀 delicious 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Is a cold climate video coming next? I started balcony gardening in Chicago 3 years ago, and it 100% because of this channel ❤ started my own plants from seed this year for the first time!
Florida ZONE 8 here. Any thoughts on crops that grow in heat, rainy & humid climates?
I live in a sub-tropical zone. My "go-to" bean is the preninal (7 years) "Madagascar Bean", drought and neglect tolerant, and in my climate zone crops twice a year. The young pods can be used like string beans, and the dried (on the vine) beans (bigger than broad beans) can be soaked and used as a base for a multitude of dishes. I liked using them as a basis for soups (esp. pumpkin) and in sauces (pasta)
best gardening channel ever!
108, brutal killed garden even using shade cloth. Love the tropics.
I grew malabar spinach on my fence in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California and it LOVED the heat. I started some seeds again just in case I didn't get any volunteers. I ended up having a lot of volunteers.
I’m in the Long Beach area and just started turning my apartment balcony into a vegetable and herb garden. It’s been a couple weeks since starting and your channel has be a great source of guidance. It’s my first endeavor into gardening and I’m already learning some of the mistakes I’ve made. It’s so much fun though and I’m excited to see how things turn out. 🍻😁
you can also eat the sweet potato leaves, better cooked than raw!
Loofah loves the heat, grows almost like a weed, is edible AND you can use it like a sponge (Although IIRC you have had some issues growing it for some reason). I'd also recommend Snake beans.
I found Botanical Interests at a nursery near my dad's house when I was looking for some flowers for my garden. My FIL was stoked to get some sun-gold tomato seeds for Father's Day!
I live in an area where it's extremely hot and humid in the summer. For example, it rained last week, and the temperature the next day was 89° with a real feel of 114°. I grew some Candyland tomatoes for the first time, and holy crap they are still THRIVING in full sun even on the hot days. I have one that has been in the raised beds since April, and it's absolutely massive and still producing an insane amount of tiny, super sweet tomats.
Love that you gave the history and place of origin of all the plants in this video. There are so many benefits in growing vegetables, fruits and grains local to your environment and knowing the archaeology of food makes it ever more fascinating!
Last year it reached 45 degrees Celsius in Cape Town South Africa. It was so hot, i decided to melt.
I live in NC (zone 7b) and i literally just pulled my first summer squash today. They are doing so well this year that they are bit early for my area and I love it.
Would love to see you grow some cowpeas!
Also, I think I prefer sweet potato greens over Malabar spinach
Malabar spinach is an acquired texture for sure. If you like Okra, you’ll prob like Malabar spinach.
Thanks guys!
i still learn so much from this show! Great Post!
Love the presentation. Excellente.
Great video! Full of information I could really use this year! Thanks so much!
Always informative.
I'm in asia and we love malabar spinach with beans. Everything you said are in my garden lol. ❤
Great info. thanks!
I STAND BY MY OKRA WHOOPING!! i've been doing it for multiple seasons ever since i experimented with and without. noticed at least a 30% increase of yield (by number of fruits) but typically more in the 60-80% increase range with whooping! i whoop each plant for about one minute each in the morning and at night right before the light goes out. additionally make sure all the soil is turnt over each time.
Wow beautiful garden^^
Like it
Thank you for great sharing.
I really need a greenhouse. I'm in 5B, and by the time my summer produce is really going in August, it's time to prep for fall.
Just learned that Auckland where I live is also zone 10! How handy for all your advice 😊
You guys are the best, thank you a bunch!
I love okra and always grow it. I found that I'm very sensitive to the stems, so I must wear long sleeves and gloves when I harvest.
I love how Jacques and Kevin enter Epic Gardening videos. For some reason, it reminds me of WWE wrestlers entering the ring lmao
Exactly what I needed.
Great video. Thanks so much! Best
i grow okra in my texas backyard garden each year . boy oh boy is it hot and dry this year.. .okra for the win.
Blue elderberry, prickly pear fruit and leaves
Thanks for another great video !
I needed this video kev! Thanks. I’m in Vegas (zone 9a) and need some crops for hot weather. Appreciate the epic gardening team
I’m in Vegas too. It’s a little late to start now, but I have some popcorn, bush beans, and black eyed peas that’s doing well. A couple times a year the guy that runs Gilcrease Orchard gives a talk at the Summerlin Library. He says they start growing pumpkins on July 15th. So you could plant that if you like them.
I got strawberries, papayas, coffee, and sugar cane here in the FL summer
How long does papaya take to fruit?
about a year, there's different kinds, cuban, hawaian, and othres.
I live in zone 9a in central Texas. We get temperatures up to 110° for months at a time during the summer. Peppers don’t fare as well in that kind of heat, but I’ve planted them in an area this year that gets the first shade in the afternoon and it seems to help them from wilting too much, but since temps don’t drop under 80° at night, we still get a lot of flower drop. Peppers and tomatoes need temperatures to drop significantly at night in order to have fruit set. My butternut squash also can’t handle the heat 😂 Here at least, beans, blackberries and tomatillos have done really well. They don’t seem to mind the triple digit temperatures at all and keep up production!
Pecans sure do love it in that heat and humanity.
I always try to plant them east of my tomato row, they appreciate the shelter. Piling several inches of breaking-down leaves in the pathways makes a big difference in keeping the soil from drying out completely. They love heat but not dry soil, a hard mix in Central Texas.
@@elisabetk2595 I have an inch of mulch with all of my raised beds and I water 1-2 times every day. “Heat loving” crops such as tomatoes, peppers, squash, etc do not like temperatures above 95° and they also do not like when nighttime temperatures don’t go below 80°. This leads to flower and fruit drop. The plants will stay alive in these temperatures, but they don’t produce the way that they should be during the summer months. Keeping the soil moist helps a bit but in this kind of heat where I live, the only thing that I think could truly help me is a shade cloth.
Which part of Central Tx is zone 9? I thought we were all zone 8?😮
@@CheezNrice4u Texas runs from zone 6 - zone 10.
Useful information
Those Wilcox All-Pro trowels are the best!
Did sowed some okras to try grow this year! Usually its hot here but we have had a very mid weather 🤨🤨, hoping it all goes well and we get a good harvest
i loved how you talked about the geographical and cultural history of these plants!!
Thanks 🙏 keep it up I love videos the gardening video tip’s really help with my garden am learning a lot thanks 🙏.
This is great thanks
Love this list! Growing Malabar spinach for the first time this year. I’d add the loofah too, can’t remember the true name. Young fruits are eaten like zucchini in Indian cooking and if u miss it becomes the sponge. A few years ago when we had 6 weeks of 100 degrees in southern cal, it was my only veggie garden plant that was not just happy, but grew like crazy!!
Great video gentleman
Prob one of the few from NM. But wow yeah I will give sunflower another chance and then bake the center. Sounds amazing. Through some seasoning on 👍😊
This was helpful. I’m glad to reminded of the Malabar spinach. I had volunteer sunflowers from our birdseed scattering, so I save the heads for the birds. I cut a flowers and they have lasted a long time.
Ahna Atlanta Ga
I've read that it may have been the Mixtec or Zapotec who first grew peppers. But either way the Nahuameh were indeed some of the first. I live in Texas and they do great in our garden all summer long
Malabar spinach produces a cray amount of seeds that you can sprout during the cooler months.
Hello, I haven't been following you very long, but I'm about to take all of the instructions in this video and implement them.
My okra is absolutely loving the heat! I'm in north florida and it's avg. 90 deg for the past 2 weeks
Yes, we "whip" our okra. It just takes the leaves off to put energy in the top fruit. I did a video on It, lol. Thanks for sharing this information!
Thank you for this video, I live in AZ 😊
Can’t say enough good things about the Kentucky Wonder Bean, in a hot climate. Just tried it by chance, and it just thrived, and has been spitting out beans for almost 2 months now and still going strong…just from a couple plants. Wonderful for those with smaller garden spaces, as just a few plants will make at least one “side dish” portion every few days.
Oh my goodness thank you so much
Yes, I live in Houston, and we had almost a full 31 days over 100 in a month, a lot at 108 last year, so I need this info!
Amazing video🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Wondeful, catalogged in The save later folder
Echoing my Gulf Coast friends...would love a vid for us. Peppers and sunflowers are our favorite. Always struggle w tomatoes but still grow.
When I grew sunflowers (from black oil seeds that birds dropped) a couple years ago, little caterpillars invaded my flowers, eating up all the new seeds and leaving a gross web behind. I killed as many as I could, but I was outnumbered.
Surely I’m not the only one?
Great vid. Love from Zone 10b!
That's interesting to hear. I always get those on my sunflower heads but they only ever eat a small percentage of the seeds.
Almost certain those are painted lady butterfly larvae! 👍👍
@@RealBradMiller Oh no! Did I murder butterfly babies? I thought they were cabbage moth larvae… 🤦♀️.
I just looked up painted lady larvae-mine weren’t those. Mine looked way more…maggot-y. 🤢
@@recynd77 I did the opposite and let cutworms stay on mine because I thought they were a butterfly and wouldn't do much damage... Wrong!!
Lol
There is also Longevity Spinach (Gynura procumbens). Not only beautiful, but grows like crazy in a bush form, and is a "superfood". Grows like crazy in the dry, hot climate of Cyprus here. Needs watering, though.
This is perfectly timed for us. Just hours ago my return to gardening got absolutely destroyed by 100 mph surface level winds. I can't sleep so I figured I'd at least find some suggestions that could handle our hot southern Midwest heat. Your suggestions are just what I needed to feel better about salvaging some grow time this year. THANK YOU!
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Alugbati too Is good in hot areas. Salamat sa pagshare sa into talents.
Sweet Potato or kamote. Lami kaayo na Bai.
Squash or Kalabasa lami kaayo na ukoy.
Jacques I can't believe you can grow everything in 1/3 of an acre!
Thx so much. I’m new to gardening n sometimes I just wanna quite but im not.
I grew Indian pepper, it's ~40°C here, and they aren't doing well.
Sunflower is doing fine.