Hi Holly. I live in South africa , province KwaZulu-Natal. It really does get hot here, too. Things you can try that love heat is marula, mango, and pineapple. They do great here
In my town in Washington state in the USA, this past summer we had like two weeks of 110 degrees F (about 43 Celsius) weather, and my sweet potatoes laughed and thrived, it was impressive when everything else badly suffered the heat.
Hey Holly! I actually watched this video twice because I though it was so apropos. Even though I live on the other coast in a subtropical and humid climate, I am growing the following from your list (If you stay to the end of comment, I will reveal a new plant for your garden). I am growing Guava, Citrus (cumquat, orange, lime, lemon, tangelo), Lemon Verbena (planted just before Christmas), Loquat, Giant Lillypillies at the front of the house one of which is an edible hedge, Adriatic Fig, Thyme, and Macadamia Nuts. I am glad you brought up making milk out of Macadamia Nuts as I have just convinced a Canadian Permaculturalist (Keith from Permaculture Legacy) to do a video on this. So my suggested plant for you and the viewers in hot climates is Ceylon Hill Gooseberry which is very hardy, has beautiful light pink and dark pink flowers and then black berries that can be prepared like a quince paste to be served with cheese. I hope you can find it where you are, I believe the previous owner of my food forest may have gotten it from Daleys here in Qld. P.S. I nearly forgot the bonus recommendation...the humble curry leaf tree (not the silvery leafed one that smells like curry but the real curry leaf tree that will send your curry recipes into the stratosphere. Love the shots of your fur kid. We have one too and he is very upset that peewees and a straw necked ibis have their way in our garden at the moment. Cheers!
Love this Craig! Thanks for the suggestion I will definitely have a look for the Gooseberry! I would love the red Malaysian guava I know you can get it in QLD but not here and I have been looking for so long! Appreciate your inspiring comments as always!
New subscriber here👋 I've been searching for this berry bush everywhere in Perth. This southern Chinese native forms part of my childhood memory and I miss it dearly. I know Mark from Self Sufficient Me got one from Daleys but Daleys can't send here due to constant low stock, and they rather send to other eastern states due to our quarantine system... Meanwhile to stop my mouth watering, Mum got a Chinese jujube which also copes with heat, and it's fruiting crazy, been snacking on it for a week now! Please let us know if you can source a Ceylon berry plant Holly👋
My pumpkin patch is doing amazing this summer here in perth. But I am watering it every day and on days over 35 i have been putting up my umbrella to shade it :)
Thanks, Holly. It’s nice following a channel from the same location. You’ve reminded me I want some sunflowers for the birds. Perhaps another distraction for the parrots!
Another brilliant video!! Thank you!! Lemon Verbena is one of my absolute favs. I have a special one that my mum gave to me 18 years ago! It’s growth has been stunted as it has been in a pot for most of its life. I planted it in the ground 6 months ago and it’s really starting to thrive 🥰 I’m keen to collect some seeds and take cuttings from it this year 😊
If anyone wants an INSANE pioneer tree: find a cutting of Garcinia Kola (bitter nut kola). I live in Los Angeles and planted a cutting on May 2nd, and today (Nov 24) it was about 10 feet tall before I topped it... here's the wild part: I've topped it twice this season, removing 12-18 inches each time, meaning that it would've been at least 12-13 feet tall total, not to mention that topping redistributes the energy (grows slower) as it's redirecting growth. It's not even in full sun! 12ft ÷ 6.75 months = 1'9-3/8" average growth per month in the first half year. Notably, it took a few weeks to really get going, so it grew from 1' to about 13' (overall) in about 6 months, realistically speaking.
Thank you so much Holly for your tips and videos! In Central Florida we can grow sweet potatoes, Roselle (which has edible leaves and the beautiful hibiscus flower in early fall creates a great fruit to make tea with, add to salads, create chutneys, etc), black eyed peas, Seminole pumpkin, Egyptian spinach, Everglade tomatoes, bananas, peaches, and papaya. Thanks again!!
@@SustainableHolly Unsure on the specific variety but the tree is almost 8m tall and fruits in two waves. Best enjoyed thinly sliced oven dried with drizzle of honey
I brought a lemonade tree recently and haven’t had a chance to plant it. Thanks for suggesting I hold off planting in the middle of summer here in Perth.
Figs and olives for me too, and I have terrible soil. Also all of the mints do well, though I know they can be invasive. Oh, and callistemon once they get going.
Hi new subscriber I’m enjoying your content I have muscadine grapes they love heat and are pretty self reliant but they will takeover an area quickly but fruits are delicious.love your accent
Hey Holly! I lived in California for 3 years and we lived in a gated community with Rosemary hedges about 1 meter high and it was such a joy to walk out the front door of our two story apartment (90210 type of gardener back then) and snip rosemary whenever we needed it in our cooking. The days when the gardeners trimmed these hedges which were all over the estate, the smell was absolutely so heavy in the air. Now back in Oz, I want to grow a small rosemary hedge so it doesn't shade out what is behind it, so I am thinking about 20cm high. I might have to rewatch your grow rosemary from cuttings video again. Also have guavas that are fruiting now but have yet to change colour. Adriatic figs (the small ones) are almost big enough to harvest. I am using this video to create a watchlist for the other things I don't have in my food forest such as the white mulberry. My grandmother had a black mulberry tree and she would make jams and pies using the fruit. No one seems to do that anymore. Cheers!
Hey Craig! The smell is so good! You can also get a rosemary that grows as a ground cover or spills over the edge of garden beds which is also beautiful if you don’t want the height.
There are a number of different types of rosemary. I have about a dozen varieties coastal NorCal. Highly suggest Tuscan Blue for cooking, fragrance, and upright height. Many others don't have the strength of flavor and density in growth. 💚
Hey just found your channel and subscribed, we are trying to get our homestead and our channel going too! Keep up the great work and we look forward to learning more from you. Over here in Queensland, it's so hot and this video had some great ideas for what to grow for us! We struggled this summer (our first one) trying to figure out what to plant and this video will certainly help us out for next year. thanks ☺
Im trying to grow a new guinea bean vine this summer. I think it has other names, but heard it does well in the heat and provides large zuchini like fruit.
Thanks Holly, Nice list for consideration. Interested to hear your opinion of the lemonade tree as I have been thinking of getting one and it sounds like it would be a good addition. We have a lime tree in the chicken yard which gets some afternoon shade and seems pretty happy. Our Moorpark apricot tree is in full sun and although it needs water for good fruit it seems pretty resilient. I live in similar hot dry summer conditions but on clay soil. Totally agree with you about managing shade, naturally or otherwise. We put 50% shade cloth over our veg beds for the summer and really pleased with it. Resort to old sheets etc draped over a few tender shrubs during the worst heat waves 😂 We use calcined kaolin clay to help manage the dreaded gall wasp on citrus and it can be used as a leaf protectant in hot weather (I think they use it on apples and pears in the adelaide hills) although of course it makes everything whitish until it is eventually washed off.
I have an apricot in between the citrus and it is very slow but still hanging in there! Hopefully by next year it will be up and thriving because I love apricot!! Yeah my lime doesn’t love the sun but also was previously in part shade and also didn’t like that 😅 it can stay out for now and hopefully the more I plant the more protection it will get 🌳
@@SustainableHolly Yes, I have had some mixed results with citrus placement hence liking the idea of the lemonade being robust 🤣 I think I just need to keep working on the soil . We are on a fairly steep slope so all the best soil is probably at the bottom of it in someone else’s garden🤣 Hang in with the apricot - so worth it!
Hi Holly, so happy I found your channel. I live in Upper Swan on 1 acre, we have a big stretch of ugly fence that is in full sun in summer so I'm excited about your list, however it is in full shade in winter so I am wondering if that would cause problems with these plants. ❤
Hi Bec! Hmm yes this will have an effect and I have found that citrus really like consistant sun and struggle with full shade in winter but many others would be fine.
@Sustainable Holly thanks so much for replying.. I'll cross the lemon tree of the list.. it was on the top (LOL) I'll start with lavender and rosemary, we have loads of it out the front I can transplant 👍
Hi Holly, Citrus are actually tropical/sub tropical plants and not native to the Mediterranean although most citrus grow well in that climate. I think Limes need sub tropical conditions more than the other citrus varieties and full sun in dry heat is probably too much for them.
Hope so, limes are delicious. Just trying to compare where I have my lime, it’s pretty much full sun facing NW and against a brick wall and experiences hot temps in a SA summer, so not dissimilar to you, but I have mine in a wine barrel, maybe that makes the difference. Do you think nutrients and moisture are leaching too quickly in your sandy soils?
I have lived for the last 33 years on a five acre property in the Clarence Valley in northern NSW. The seasons seem to be getting warmer. We used to get a few mild frosts every winter but haven’t had one for five years now. We grow all but three of the plants that you mentioned. Before the continual rain that we had for the first half of last year we had had drought for four years & lost quite a few trees during that time including a mulberry, a loquat & a couple of lily pillys. A plant that survived well through the years of drought without any watering at all was aloevera. The grape variety that is most suited to our area is Isabella.
Hey thank you for sharing this video!! I just want to share you that there is always love, hope, forgiveness of sins and eternal life in Jesus. If you come to Him with a sincere and humble repented heart, He can save you and forgive you and give you abundance of joy, love and peace and eternal life. Believe in Jesus: He is The Son of God, He died for our sins and He rose from the dead, Believe in Jesus. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” -Romans 10:9 Repent and Believe in Jesus.
Just an FYI re grapes: they're highly toxic for dogs so please be careful around any dogs if you have grapes.
This is a fantastic point! Mine are going it the front where he doesn’t go but thank you for adding that 👌
Hi Holly. I live in South africa , province KwaZulu-Natal. It really does get hot here, too. Things you can try that love heat is marula, mango, and pineapple. They do great here
Ooh and you can grow a pineapple plant from the top leaves!
Mulberry lavender jam.....yummy
Yes please!! Or lemon and lavender tart 👌
In my town in Washington state in the USA, this past summer we had like two weeks of 110 degrees F (about 43 Celsius) weather, and my sweet potatoes laughed and thrived, it was impressive when everything else badly suffered the heat.
+1 for Sweet potato! They grow well in heat or shade! Plus you can eat the whole plant 👌🌱
Put beach umbrellas up. But washington is the givt fiddling with weather using haarp.
Lilly pillys use to call them chinese apples...
Black-eyed peas are actually a bean so they're nitrogen fixing and they thrive in the heat. Okra does too!
I love your videos, you speak slowly and like a normal person easy every day speak 😊 I live in Adelaide very similar climate.
Hey Holly! I actually watched this video twice because I though it was so apropos. Even though I live on the other coast in a subtropical and humid climate, I am growing the following from your list (If you stay to the end of comment, I will reveal a new plant for your garden). I am growing Guava, Citrus (cumquat, orange, lime, lemon, tangelo), Lemon Verbena (planted just before Christmas), Loquat, Giant Lillypillies at the front of the house one of which is an edible hedge, Adriatic Fig, Thyme, and Macadamia Nuts. I am glad you brought up making milk out of Macadamia Nuts as I have just convinced a Canadian Permaculturalist (Keith from Permaculture Legacy) to do a video on this. So my suggested plant for you and the viewers in hot climates is Ceylon Hill Gooseberry which is very hardy, has beautiful light pink and dark pink flowers and then black berries that can be prepared like a quince paste to be served with cheese. I hope you can find it where you are, I believe the previous owner of my food forest may have gotten it from Daleys here in Qld. P.S. I nearly forgot the bonus recommendation...the humble curry leaf tree (not the silvery leafed one that smells like curry but the real curry leaf tree that will send your curry recipes into the stratosphere. Love the shots of your fur kid. We have one too and he is very upset that peewees and a straw necked ibis have their way in our garden at the moment. Cheers!
Love this Craig! Thanks for the suggestion I will definitely have a look for the Gooseberry! I would love the red Malaysian guava I know you can get it in QLD but not here and I have been looking for so long! Appreciate your inspiring comments as always!
New subscriber here👋
I've been searching for this berry bush everywhere in Perth.
This southern Chinese native forms part of my childhood memory and I miss it dearly.
I know Mark from Self Sufficient Me got one from Daleys but Daleys can't send here due to constant low stock, and they rather send to other eastern states due to our quarantine system...
Meanwhile to stop my mouth watering, Mum got a Chinese jujube which also copes with heat, and it's fruiting crazy, been snacking on it for a week now!
Please let us know if you can source a Ceylon berry plant Holly👋
My pumpkin patch is doing amazing this summer here in perth. But I am watering it every day and on days over 35 i have been putting up my umbrella to shade it :)
I feel like it’s going to be a great year for our pumpkins with this milder summer! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Thanks, Holly. It’s nice following a channel from the same location. You’ve reminded me I want some sunflowers for the birds. Perhaps another distraction for the parrots!
Hello! Interesting video. I especially love mulberry, a really great plant for hot areas. Good luck👍🌻🌺💛💙
Thank you! 🙌🌱🌻
Another brilliant video!! Thank you!!
Lemon Verbena is one of my absolute favs. I have a special one that my mum gave to me 18 years ago! It’s growth has been stunted as it has been in a pot for most of its life. I planted it in the ground 6 months ago and it’s really starting to thrive 🥰
I’m keen to collect some seeds and take cuttings from it this year 😊
How special!! The seeds are tiny! It there are sooooo many of them. I’ve saved a bunch this year.
My honeydew melon vines are coping really well here in the central wheatbelt. Also my Armenian snake cucumber
🎉🎉🎉 I forgot to grow the Armenian cucumber this year!
If anyone wants an INSANE pioneer tree: find a cutting of Garcinia Kola (bitter nut kola). I live in Los Angeles and planted a cutting on May 2nd, and today (Nov 24) it was about 10 feet tall before I topped it... here's the wild part: I've topped it twice this season, removing 12-18 inches each time, meaning that it would've been at least 12-13 feet tall total, not to mention that topping redistributes the energy (grows slower) as it's redirecting growth. It's not even in full sun! 12ft ÷ 6.75 months = 1'9-3/8" average growth per month in the first half year. Notably, it took a few weeks to really get going, so it grew from 1' to about 13' (overall) in about 6 months, realistically speaking.
I really want to start growing Passionfruit and adding it to my backyard garden! Loved this video Holly and thank you for your tips!! xxx
Thanks Jackie! I’m very excited for passionfruit…very impatient 😅🌱
You are really amazing. Thank you
Thank you so much Holly for your tips and videos! In Central Florida we can grow sweet potatoes, Roselle (which has edible leaves and the beautiful hibiscus flower in early fall creates a great fruit to make tea with, add to salads, create chutneys, etc), black eyed peas, Seminole pumpkin, Egyptian spinach, Everglade tomatoes, bananas, peaches, and papaya. Thanks again!!
💚 I have planted a few Rosella too can’t wait for delicious teas
Fig and olive trees in my garden are thriving. Will source feijoa and passionfruit this season. Great tips
Yay thats great Travis! What Figs do you have?
@@SustainableHolly Unsure on the specific variety but the tree is almost 8m tall and fruits in two waves.
Best enjoyed thinly sliced oven dried with drizzle of honey
YUM!!
I’m about to move into a house with a large yard and this video really helped with what I’m going to plant :D
Yay 🙌🙌🏡🏡
I brought a lemonade tree recently and haven’t had a chance to plant it. Thanks for suggesting I hold off planting in the middle of summer here in Perth.
🍋🍋🍋🍋 yay! We have actually had a mild summer so I’m nervous there’s 40s coming!
Figs and olives for me too, and I have terrible soil. Also all of the mints do well, though I know they can be invasive. Oh, and callistemon once they get going.
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Perth sounds just like some parts of southern Africa, those dry hot days
Hi new subscriber I’m enjoying your content I have muscadine grapes they love heat and are pretty self reliant but they will takeover an area quickly but fruits are delicious.love your accent
Welcome!! I have read about them I’m going to try find one 🤞
Tanaman yang sangat subur dan luas terimakasih sudah berbagi informasi tentang pertanian dan bisa menjadi inspirasi untuk pertanian saya
Hey Holly! I lived in California for 3 years and we lived in a gated community with Rosemary hedges about 1 meter high and it was such a joy to walk out the front door of our two story apartment (90210 type of gardener back then) and snip rosemary whenever we needed it in our cooking. The days when the gardeners trimmed these hedges which were all over the estate, the smell was absolutely so heavy in the air. Now back in Oz, I want to grow a small rosemary hedge so it doesn't shade out what is behind it, so I am thinking about 20cm high. I might have to rewatch your grow rosemary from cuttings video again. Also have guavas that are fruiting now but have yet to change colour. Adriatic figs (the small ones) are almost big enough to harvest. I am using this video to create a watchlist for the other things I don't have in my food forest such as the white mulberry. My grandmother had a black mulberry tree and she would make jams and pies using the fruit. No one seems to do that anymore. Cheers!
Hey Craig! The smell is so good! You can also get a rosemary that grows as a ground cover or spills over the edge of garden beds which is also beautiful if you don’t want the height.
Live in Queensland and have never been able to grow rosemary in my life. 😑
There are a number of different types of rosemary. I have about a dozen varieties coastal NorCal. Highly suggest Tuscan Blue for cooking, fragrance, and upright height. Many others don't have the strength of flavor and density in growth. 💚
Yes!!! Thank you, dear! ❤😁🙏🏽✨
Holly, Muscadine & Scuppernong grapes are heat tolerant.
Thank you Annette!
Great. Thanks. Great info. ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Great info as usual and always inspiring
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Hey just found your channel and subscribed, we are trying to get our homestead and our channel going too! Keep up the great work and we look forward to learning more from you. Over here in Queensland, it's so hot and this video had some great ideas for what to grow for us! We struggled this summer (our first one) trying to figure out what to plant and this video will certainly help us out for next year. thanks ☺
Im trying to grow a new guinea bean vine this summer. I think it has other names, but heard it does well in the heat and provides large zuchini like fruit.
Oh cool! I think I’m growing this! Cucuzza. I grew it last year and it’s so fun to grow! They are so big and interesting plus I love a climber
Live in Queensland. Can't wait to find something that actually grows in a hot, bare backyard. 😂
Omg I've 3 out of those and I'm in Perth too. So will get to work after the ratty heat
What ones do you have? 🌱
@@SustainableHolly only fig, sweet potato and grapes. I have couldn't kill them if I tried!!🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Holly, Nice list for consideration. Interested to hear your opinion of the lemonade tree as I have been thinking of getting one and it sounds like it would be a good addition. We have a lime tree in the chicken yard which gets some afternoon shade and seems pretty happy. Our Moorpark apricot tree is in full sun and although it needs water for good fruit it seems pretty resilient. I live in similar hot dry summer conditions but on clay soil. Totally agree with you about managing shade, naturally or otherwise. We put 50% shade cloth over our veg beds for the summer and really pleased with it. Resort to old sheets etc draped over a few tender shrubs during the worst heat waves 😂 We use calcined kaolin clay to help manage the dreaded gall wasp on citrus and it can be used as a leaf protectant in hot weather (I think they use it on apples and pears in the adelaide hills) although of course it makes everything whitish until it is eventually washed off.
I have an apricot in between the citrus and it is very slow but still hanging in there! Hopefully by next year it will be up and thriving because I love apricot!! Yeah my lime doesn’t love the sun but also was previously in part shade and also didn’t like that 😅 it can stay out for now and hopefully the more I plant the more protection it will get 🌳
@@SustainableHolly Yes, I have had some mixed results with citrus placement hence liking the idea of the lemonade being robust 🤣 I think I just need to keep working on the soil . We are on a fairly steep slope so all the best soil is probably at the bottom of it in someone else’s garden🤣 Hang in with the apricot - so worth it!
Would you plant pollinator plants near/in your veggie/herb beds? Or just having them in the same garden is enough to entice bees and butterflies?
All my gardens have edible flowers planted all mixed in 🌸 the more flowers and more diverse range of flowers the better 🌻👌
Hi Holly, so happy I found your channel. I live in Upper Swan on 1 acre, we have a big stretch of ugly fence that is in full sun in summer so I'm excited about your list, however it is in full shade in winter so I am wondering if that would cause problems with these plants. ❤
Hi Bec! Hmm yes this will have an effect and I have found that citrus really like consistant sun and struggle with full shade in winter but many others would be fine.
@Sustainable Holly thanks so much for replying.. I'll cross the lemon tree of the list.. it was on the top (LOL) I'll start with lavender and rosemary, we have loads of it out the front I can transplant 👍
Hi Holly, I'm in Perth as well. What mesh did you screw to the fence for the passionfruit?
Hi Holly,
Citrus are actually tropical/sub tropical plants and not native to the Mediterranean although most citrus grow well in that climate. I think Limes need sub tropical conditions more than the other citrus varieties and full sun in dry heat is probably too much for them.
My lime was in part shade for years and unhappy but also not loving full sun hopefully when the rest grow it will get the perfect dappled light 😅🌳
Hope so, limes are delicious.
Just trying to compare where I have my lime, it’s pretty much full sun facing NW and against a brick wall and experiences hot temps in a SA summer, so not dissimilar to you, but I have mine in a wine barrel, maybe that makes the difference. Do you think nutrients and moisture are leaching too quickly in your sandy soils?
What grapes should I get? Please share your heat-tolerant plants below 🙏☀🌳
Muscadine & Scuppernong grapes are heat tolerant.
I have found that the golden grapes are the best taste wise, though I also love the black grapes too.
I have lived for the last 33 years on a five acre property in the Clarence Valley in northern NSW. The seasons seem to be getting warmer. We used to get a few mild frosts every winter but haven’t had one for five years now. We grow all but three of the plants that you mentioned. Before the continual rain that we had for the first half of last year we had had drought for four years & lost quite a few trees during that time including a mulberry, a loquat & a couple of lily pillys. A plant that survived well through the years of drought without any watering at all was aloevera. The grape variety that is most suited to our area is Isabella.
Hey thank you for sharing this video!! I just want to share you that there is always love, hope, forgiveness of sins and eternal life in Jesus. If you come to Him with a sincere and humble repented heart, He can save you and forgive you and give you abundance of joy, love and peace and eternal life. Believe in Jesus: He is The Son of God, He died for our sins and He rose from the dead, Believe in Jesus. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” -Romans 10:9 Repent and Believe in Jesus.
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