I’m in S.Texas zone 9a, you’re so right, growing zones just give you a snippet of info. After June the garden is pretty much done here. We’ve been in a drought for the last 4 years only getting 10 inches of rain last year, city water is expensive plus the city fines residents for overuse. Your video encourages me to really evaluate my environment, planting accordingly to those of us in dry hot extremes. Just wanted add our natives that lay dormant in the heat such as the asters, echinaceas, petunias, frost weed and solidago bloom beautifully right now helping the migrating pollinators passing through Texas 😊
This is the best video ever; thank you for all your work and guidance, Angela! Finally beginning to 'break ground' and garden with my toddler son. It keeps us bonding outdoors, and your videos, website, PG and book are a daily resource for my personal education and growth. Thanks!
Thanks for another super helpful video! I am just up the hill from Phoenix in Black Canyon City, at about 2,000 feet elevation, and your garden tips and timing almost always works well for us here too. This year, we successfully avoided corn ear worms by timing our sweet corn to harvest both before and after the flight of the moth that lays the eggs that turn into earworms. We sowed sweet corn in March and August this year, and enjoyed 2 amazing harvests of sweet corn, in late May and just now in early October. Taking your advice and learning about our local pest species gave us the knowledge to avoid it's flight period entirely. No more chewed ears of sweet corn! I love it!
I’m east of Sacramento in Zone 9b. We hit 114°F this summer, and my tomatoes stopped producing. Thank you for creating this encouraging and educational video.
I am happy to have come across this video. It just showed up on my feed. I wish I would’ve come across this years ago. This is a wealth of information. Thank you!
Wow! Great info! We always try to increase our odds of succeeding in this unique climate. Plant one tomato and it dies. 100% failure. Plant three tomatoes and one dies. Success most of the time. Thanks!
We’re in Buckeye, AZ west of Phoenix. This summer has been such a challenge! Your guides and book have been a lifesaver for this novice. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!
Yuma arizona here and im always so grateful for you and your channel. There's no way I would have come this far without it! Here's to my second winter of gardening!
You are who I needed! I live near the Gulf of Mexico where the temps hover around 100 degrees, however, we have humid weather and droughts similar to yours and then our rainy season. This is a change due to the climate, and I have had a hard time growing anything for the past two years. Thank you for the encouragement that I needed! God bless!
We just bought shade cloth for next year. This is my first year gardening and my spring was beautiful, but summer definitely taught me a thing or two 😭 I feel a little more prepared for fall. I have pumpkins that survived, sweet potatoes, and a young pomegranate and lemon tree that keep me sane.
Eres una Maravilla UN ejemplo a seguir tus videos me han ayudado mucho vivo en Oklahoma 😢 es Bien calie te 😂 Pero hice lo que dijistes en TU video planta en Agosto y por fin e cosechado Algo es casi impossible plantar aqui Este September is hot to Hot
Thank you so much for this! Just bought my first house in Surprise, Arizona and I’m starting my garden planning. Such wonderful inspiration. I’m obsessed with your channel and website. 💜
Outstanding video Angela. I grow in a hot dessert climate(very similar to yours but not in a city) on the other side of the world in Western Australia and am always telling people in my area to follow you. It is challenging to grow in summer but at least we can grow something! I always feel for people that can't grow through their winters, although suspect that the true die hards find a way- I can't even imagine not growing anything for months on end. Thanks again for all that you do to share your knowledge.
Thank you! Best of luck as you enter your hot season. I agree with you. I don't think I could live somewhere I couldn't be gardening all year. Although a break does sound nice sometimes!
Angela, I met you at a presentation at the Mesa library. I told you about Ecowitt WiFi moisture sensors. Instead of the small probe that was available then they now have a sensor that has a cable to the box that communicates to the gateway. Both of these sensors require at least the 1100 gateway. The new probe that can be buried is Ecowitt WH51L.
Great video. I live in Central Oregon which is high desert. Our growing is way different then yours, but I always learn something from your videos. I wish we had the planting books you offer, so I'm going to try to create one for myself.
Gee I lived in Tempe (near Mesa) in the 90s and grew only cacti and succulents. Wish you were there back then😂🙏👍 Sacramento’s summer months have triple digits temperature. Kinda similar to Mesa but it is still different. 1. The summer months are short 2. There is the delta breeze in the evening while Mesa is still hot sometimes three in the morning with triple digits temp! 3. Winter and spring are the rainy seasons. San Diego inland is hot and dry. It is because of the lower stretch of the Rocky Mountain while Mesa is located in a flat, wide open desert. The Superstition Mountain is wayyyy out there.
I only got one cantelope this year because I picked it early before the ants found it 😭 I love being able to look at your calendar and pick out things to plant that month!
So glad I found your channel! 🎉 I am learning so much from you 🌞 I live in a similar climate in regional Australia and summers are often in the 40s (celcius) for weeks and non native plants like most food crops really struggle without shade cloth and other measures we put in place like using ollas or wicking beds.
Angela I recently moved into my dream property and am ready to start a garden on it. BUT! It’s full of little prairie dogs 💀. How can I protect my crops with the little wild AZ critters around? Any suggestions?
Here's an article about gophers - growinginthegarden.com/5-steps-to-get-rid-of-gophers-in-the-garden/ I don't have a lot of experience with either. Hopefully someone on here can help you more than I can. Yay for your dream property, congratulations!
If you are doing raised beds you can put hardware cloth (that wire mesh stuff) at the bottom as a physical barrier, we have those guys in our yard and I am trying that out this year!
Ur videos are so informative. I live in the Houston area zone 9b. Would I be able to use ur calendar & planting guide? I feel like our seasons & conditions are very similar. Thank you!
This is exciting to watch! Lovely garden💚We are moving to Phoenix in April. How big is your property? I need a rough idea of how much space I would like. I will be there this week scouting areas. Thank you!! 😊
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
Will the late season extreme heat harm the roselle hibiscus harvest? I just started seeing blossoms. Do they need some shade? Thank you for all you do. You are such a blessing to us newbies! 🌻
Great video! Do you have a preference on wood or metal raised beds? I’m in Mesa too and wonder if the metal ones would generate too much heat for the plants?
I've done both and last year I took some readings. The metal ones I use are treated and don't heat up any more than my wood ones. You can find them here shrsl.com/3yano Use code Angela10 to save $10 off $100 or GITG5 to save 5 percent on any size order
I’m in the Las Vegas desert and for the last two years I’ve used 100% store-bought vegetable gardening soil to use in my raised bed. And two years straight, I’ve had excellent leaf and above soil growth, but very little root development and no tubers or any vegetables underground. I have no idea what’s going on. I’ve tried sweet potatoes, carrots, golden potatoes, and others with no success. Any ideas?
I would guess either too much nitrogen relative to P and K, or else maybe your watering is too shallow. Has your soil become hydrophobic from the heat? After you water, see how deep it's penetrating the soil. If not very deep, you may need to add more compost, perlite, and/or humic acid. Good luck!
@@GrowingInTheGarden I used specific vegetable gardening soil, so the nitrogen and nutrients shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve added perlite to that soil to keep it soft for root development and good drainage. I also added a shade cloth to my pergola for protection against the summer sun. Still, two years in a row I’ve gotten no growth under the soil, but the leaves and stalks are huge. I’ve used wicking tubs, as well as top watering, so I’m lost on what is happening.
@@joeblow9284 I’m also in Vegas. The brand of soil makes a difference. Box stores use the same soil nationwide. I use Star Nursery soil. It’s made for our clinate. It’s more expensive but worth it. If I’m filling a new raised bed I mix bag for bag of Star’s and a cheaper raised bed mix. I do add homemade compost and fertilizer. I hope this helps.
Hi there, Angela. By saying long bean varieties, are you talking about yard-long beans. That’s what it looked like in the pic provided but almost all of mine burned up to a crisp this summer. Here in south-central Texas we don’t get as hot as y’all but it sometimes gets very close. Also, I’ve never grown luffa because I’m not interested in growing them for sponges. Then I learned that they could be eaten if harvested early enough. How do they taste, in your opinion? Thank you for posting such cool videos because I learn something from every one of them.
Yes, yard long beans or asparagus beans. Luffa aren't great for eating. They get fibrous so quickly you have to catch them very young. I'd grow something else if you don't want the sponges.
Similar - I lived there for several years. You get colder in the winter for sure and are usually about 10 degrees cooler overall. Your nights cool down a bit more too. I love St. George.
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
I use the garden grids from Garden in Minutes in all of my raised beds. Use code Angela10 to save $10 off $100 or GITG5 to save 5 percent on any size order shrsl.com/3yanv
Here in Tunisia sometimes the temperature reaches 51C° or 124F° in july but my vegetables grow excellently especially tomatoes and pepper maybe because they are local species but some other plants in my garden dies when it reaches 40C° or 105F° most of them are from the americas and south africa i dont know maybe because the summer here is dry without humidity
I live in Tucson, AZ. Been trying different types of Summer Squash; Grey Squash, yellow, Zucchini. I’ve had at least three of each; no squash. The plants are big and beautiful but no squash, only male flowers ? Other things I’ve grown do fairly well?
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
Do the best you can. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, and the sun's angle is lower. 110°F in September (is awful!) but not the same as 110°F in July thankfully. I'm still planting.
Being local to you, I so appreciate your videos and your planting guides. Great job on the new website, it's awesome! Thank you so much Angela!
So glad you like the new website. Appreciate the feedback. Thanks for watching!
What a wonderful video! I always brag about you and how your UA-cam channel has blessed me so much!
Wow, thank you!
I’m in S.Texas zone 9a, you’re so right, growing zones just give you a snippet of info. After June the garden is pretty much done here. We’ve been in a drought for the last 4 years only getting 10 inches of rain last year, city water is expensive plus the city fines residents for overuse. Your video encourages me to really evaluate my environment, planting accordingly to those of us in dry hot extremes. Just wanted add our natives that lay dormant in the heat such as the asters, echinaceas, petunias, frost weed and solidago bloom beautifully right now helping the migrating pollinators passing through Texas 😊
This is the best video ever; thank you for all your work and guidance, Angela! Finally beginning to 'break ground' and garden with my toddler son. It keeps us bonding outdoors, and your videos, website, PG and book are a daily resource for my personal education and growth. Thanks!
Best of luck to you!
I’m in Arizona and I’d love to begin a vegetable garden in 2025 so your channel is a blessing to me.
I'm so glad!
Crazy how different this is compared to where I live! So fun to see how gardening works in other places.
Such good content. Thank you Angela.
Thank you!
I live in Buckeye AZ and saved this video to review annually.
ALWAYS learning from your videos.😊
Thanks for another super helpful video! I am just up the hill from Phoenix in Black Canyon City, at about 2,000 feet elevation, and your garden tips and timing almost always works well for us here too. This year, we successfully avoided corn ear worms by timing our sweet corn to harvest both before and after the flight of the moth that lays the eggs that turn into earworms. We sowed sweet corn in March and August this year, and enjoyed 2 amazing harvests of sweet corn, in late May and just now in early October. Taking your advice and learning about our local pest species gave us the knowledge to avoid it's flight period entirely. No more chewed ears of sweet corn! I love it!
What a valuable insight. Thanks for sharing. Way to go!
I’m east of Sacramento in Zone 9b. We hit 114°F this summer, and my tomatoes stopped producing. Thank you for creating this encouraging and educational video.
YOU ...............rock! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I am happy to have come across this video. It just showed up on my feed. I wish I would’ve come across this years ago. This is a wealth of information. Thank you!
Wow! Great info! We always try to increase our odds of succeeding in this unique climate. Plant one tomato and it dies. 100% failure. Plant three tomatoes and one dies. Success most of the time. Thanks!
I love that. I appreciate you sharing. That's a great tip!
I love the parrot in the garden.
Me too!
I live in Las Vegas. Your channel has been very helpful.
We’re in Buckeye, AZ west of Phoenix. This summer has been such a challenge! Your guides and book have been a lifesaver for this novice. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!
You're welcome! It certainly has been a rough summer.
Yuma arizona here and im always so grateful for you and your channel. There's no way I would have come this far without it! Here's to my second winter of gardening!
Fantastic information. Took one summer in the low desert in southern California to realize full sun does not apply.
You are who I needed! I live near the Gulf of Mexico where the temps hover around 100 degrees, however, we have humid weather and droughts similar to yours and then our rainy season. This is a change due to the climate, and I have had a hard time growing anything for the past two years. Thank you for the encouragement that I needed! God bless!
Love this video and look forward to another class in the Valley. Going to pick up a guide to encourage my daughter.
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Your garden is amazing.!🥰🥬🫛🌿
Excellent video!
Thanks Raejean!
We just bought shade cloth for next year. This is my first year gardening and my spring was beautiful, but summer definitely taught me a thing or two 😭 I feel a little more prepared for fall. I have pumpkins that survived, sweet potatoes, and a young pomegranate and lemon tree that keep me sane.
Very encouraging and informational video! Thank you!
Eres una Maravilla UN ejemplo a seguir tus videos me han ayudado mucho vivo en Oklahoma 😢 es Bien calie te 😂 Pero hice lo que dijistes en TU video planta en Agosto y por fin e cosechado Algo es casi impossible plantar aqui Este September is hot to Hot
Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize Oklahoma got so hot. I'm glad you had success!
Ty for this wonderful video. I just got my hands on some itoi onions. 😁 ❤
Thank you so much for this! Just bought my first house in Surprise, Arizona and I’m starting my garden planning. Such wonderful inspiration. I’m obsessed with your channel and website. 💜
Thank you for this video! When I get a house I'm going to have a garden!
Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks
Outstanding video Angela. I grow in a hot dessert climate(very similar to yours but not in a city) on the other side of the world in Western Australia and am always telling people in my area to follow you. It is challenging to grow in summer but at least we can grow something! I always feel for people that can't grow through their winters, although suspect that the true die hards find a way- I can't even imagine not growing anything for months on end. Thanks again for all that you do to share your knowledge.
Thank you! Best of luck as you enter your hot season. I agree with you. I don't think I could live somewhere I couldn't be gardening all year. Although a break does sound nice sometimes!
This video is an excellent guide!! Thank you!!
😂😂 the ending. If that was your husband, he has a hearty laugh.
Ha! Glad you liked it.
Very motivating! We're in Lake Havasu, and it is super challenging.
Angela, I met you at a presentation at the Mesa library. I told you about Ecowitt WiFi moisture sensors. Instead of the small probe that was available then they now have a sensor that has a cable to the box that communicates to the gateway. Both of these sensors require at least the 1100 gateway. The new probe that can be buried is Ecowitt WH51L.
That's right. I remember you. Thanks for the update!
Awesome video! Thank you so much! I'm so encouraged!
I wish I had found you in 2015 when I started growing! I had so many mistakes, I get summers of 116F too
Great video. I live in Central Oregon which is high desert. Our growing is way different then yours, but I always learn something from your videos. I wish we had the planting books you offer, so I'm going to try to create one for myself.
You should! Thanks for watching.
Hi! Check out the channel, “Garden Answer”! She’s probably gardening in your area!! More great info for you!
@@GrowingInTheGarden Love your channel! You are an excellent teacher!!😊
@@lorrihernandez341 Yep I watch her everyday. I really enjoy her videos. Glad you are watching her too😁.
Just sowed my greens in a kiddie pool this week, shame we only got a tease of fall weather before the heat started again argggg!!!
Days are shorter and sun's angle is lower.. so that helps. But I wish it were cooler too!
GREAT videos!
Gee I lived in Tempe (near Mesa) in the 90s and grew only cacti and succulents. Wish you were there back then😂🙏👍
Sacramento’s summer months have triple digits temperature. Kinda similar to Mesa but it is still different.
1. The summer months are short
2. There is the delta breeze in the evening while Mesa is still hot sometimes three in the morning with triple digits temp!
3. Winter and spring are the rainy seasons.
San Diego inland is hot and dry. It is because of the lower stretch of the Rocky Mountain while Mesa is located in a flat, wide open desert. The Superstition Mountain is wayyyy out there.
Thanks for sharing!
I only got one cantelope this year because I picked it early before the ants found it 😭
I love being able to look at your calendar and pick out things to plant that month!
lol the outtakes at the end 😂
Nice video!
So glad I found your channel! 🎉 I am learning so much from you 🌞 I live in a similar climate in regional Australia and summers are often in the 40s (celcius) for weeks and non native plants like most food crops really struggle without shade cloth and other measures we put in place like using ollas or wicking beds.
Heat definitely presents challenges. Hello from Arizona!
Very informative video. Central Florida 9b 17:52
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for watching!
Angela I recently moved into my dream property and am ready to start a garden on it. BUT! It’s full of little prairie dogs 💀. How can I protect my crops with the little wild AZ critters around? Any suggestions?
Here's an article about gophers - growinginthegarden.com/5-steps-to-get-rid-of-gophers-in-the-garden/ I don't have a lot of experience with either. Hopefully someone on here can help you more than I can. Yay for your dream property, congratulations!
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Haha, I've been laying woodchips over their holes. They don't like it, so they move further away.
@@theurbanthirdhomestead ooh thanks! Hadn’t thought that’d work
If you are doing raised beds you can put hardware cloth (that wire mesh stuff) at the bottom as a physical barrier, we have those guys in our yard and I am trying that out this year!
Ur videos are so informative. I live in the Houston area zone 9b. Would I be able to use ur calendar & planting guide? I feel like our seasons & conditions are very similar. Thank you!
It would be similar - you would need to pay attention especially to the transition months and note the temperature guidelines on those months.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thank you for the reply ♥️
This is exciting to watch! Lovely garden💚We are moving to Phoenix in April. How big is your property? I need a rough idea of how much space I would like. I will be there this week scouting areas. Thank you!! 😊
My home lot is less than 1/3 acre.
Does your guide work for las Vegas 9a? My backyard is all rock and clay.
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
Will the late season extreme heat harm the roselle hibiscus harvest? I just started seeing blossoms. Do they need some shade? Thank you for all you do. You are such a blessing to us newbies! 🌻
No - it's a tough plant. It will be ok!
Great video! Do you have a preference on wood or metal raised beds? I’m in Mesa too and wonder if the metal ones would generate too much heat for the plants?
I've done both and last year I took some readings. The metal ones I use are treated and don't heat up any more than my wood ones. You can find them here shrsl.com/3yano Use code Angela10 to save $10 off $100 or GITG5 to save 5 percent on any size order
I’m in the Las Vegas desert and for the last two years I’ve used 100% store-bought vegetable gardening soil to use in my raised bed. And two years straight, I’ve had excellent leaf and above soil growth, but very little root development and no tubers or any vegetables underground. I have no idea what’s going on. I’ve tried sweet potatoes, carrots, golden potatoes, and others with no success. Any ideas?
I would guess either too much nitrogen relative to P and K, or else maybe your watering is too shallow. Has your soil become hydrophobic from the heat? After you water, see how deep it's penetrating the soil. If not very deep, you may need to add more compost, perlite, and/or humic acid. Good luck!
I would agree with Colleen's comments. Definitely worth adding and amending with compost and checking your watering.
@@GrowingInTheGarden I used specific vegetable gardening soil, so the nitrogen and nutrients shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve added perlite to that soil to keep it soft for root development and good drainage. I also added a shade cloth to my pergola for protection against the summer sun. Still, two years in a row I’ve gotten no growth under the soil, but the leaves and stalks are huge. I’ve used wicking tubs, as well as top watering, so I’m lost on what is happening.
@@joeblow9284 I’m also in Vegas. The brand of soil makes a difference. Box stores use the same soil nationwide. I use Star Nursery soil. It’s made for our clinate. It’s more expensive but worth it. If I’m filling a new raised bed I mix bag for bag of Star’s and a cheaper raised bed mix. I do add homemade compost and fertilizer. I hope this helps.
Great video! Where do you get your metal arches and trellis’s some look very sturdy?
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Hi there, Angela. By saying long bean varieties, are you talking about yard-long beans. That’s what it looked like in the pic provided but almost all of mine burned up to a crisp this summer. Here in south-central Texas we don’t get as hot as y’all but it sometimes gets very close.
Also, I’ve never grown luffa because I’m not interested in growing them for sponges. Then I learned that they could be eaten if harvested early enough. How do they taste, in your opinion?
Thank you for posting such cool videos because I learn something from every one of them.
Yes, yard long beans or asparagus beans. Luffa aren't great for eating. They get fibrous so quickly you have to catch them very young. I'd grow something else if you don't want the sponges.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thank you!
Thank you for your video. I would like to know if St George Utah has a similar weather where you are?
Similar - I lived there for several years. You get colder in the winter for sure and are usually about 10 degrees cooler overall. Your nights cool down a bit more too. I love St. George.
Can you do a garden plan book for Palm Springs, California? We never have a freeze.
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
Hey dear I am new to yours channel What do you use to water your tomatoes I like how you do your compost I like the video
I use the garden grids from Garden in Minutes in all of my raised beds. Use code Angela10 to save $10 off $100 or GITG5 to save 5 percent on any size order shrsl.com/3yanv
Here in Tunisia sometimes the temperature reaches 51C° or 124F° in july but my vegetables grow excellently especially tomatoes and pepper maybe because they are local species but some other plants in my garden dies when it reaches 40C° or 105F° most of them are from the americas and south africa i dont know maybe because the summer here is dry without humidity
I live in Tucson, AZ. Been trying different types of Summer Squash; Grey Squash, yellow, Zucchini. I’ve had at least three of each; no squash. The plants are big and beautiful but no squash, only male flowers ? Other things I’ve grown do fairly well?
Maybe as temps come down you'll get some. The pollen doesn't like high heat.
What variety of basil are you growing as a heat loving crop? Because my basil bolts.
Emerald Towers is a good one. I keep cutting mine back (all varieties) and it grows well.
Are your guides for the Laughlin area, or just a bit off. I'm trying to figure out if our planting seasons are the same as Mesa. Please help.
It would be similar - but you would need to monitor the transition months. You can see my monthly planting guides here to compare: growinginthegarden.com/category/desert-gardening/monthly-guides/
@@GrowingInTheGarden thank you so much
Hi Angela , i'm in Mexicali would You do consulting ?
Hi Pedro - I'm not doing consulting right now.
How many truck loads or cubic yards of wood chips would you estimate you have between beds? How thick?
Several inches thick - my entire yard uses about 10 cubic yards for a thick layer - both gardens
how do you handle fall gardening when there are excessive heat periods?
Do the best you can. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, and the sun's angle is lower. 110°F in September (is awful!) but not the same as 110°F in July thankfully. I'm still planting.
How can I keep my dogs from destroying my gardens. I have to make the beds in raised beds with chicken wire around them. Is there any better way?
Barrier methods seem to work best