Las Vegas Farm Grows Lettuce in 100 Degree Weather + Urban Farm Tour
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- John from www.growingyour... takes you on a tour of Sin City Farm, an urban farm in Downtown Las Vegas that is growing food for restaurants and the community on a small-scale residential home site.
In this episode, you discover how Roman, the farmer at Sin City farm is growing baby greens to sell at the local downtown farmers market. You will discover how he started gardening, and some of the techniques he uses to grow in the hot 100+ degree weather summers in Las Vegas, Nevada.
You will learn how shade cloth is being used to protect the plants from the intense effects from the sun and provide them some needed shade they need to grow in the desert.
You will learn some of the common crops Sin City Farms is growing and how they did this season. You will also hear John's tips on how Sin City Farm can be improved to grow more, faster and bigger plants.
Finally, John will interview Roman, the farmer and ask him the following questions:
22:32 Interview with Roman Starts
22:40 Is it true you quit your job to start farming in Las Vegas?
23:07 What do you think people in Vegas should grow?
24:15 What is your best green to grow in full sun?
24:44 Have you only been farming for 6 months with no prior experience?
26:48 What is one thing you would like to share with my viewers?
27:49 How did local people accept you at the farmers market?
29:10 When do you harvest to take food to the farmers market?
32:16 What has been your biggest day at the farmers market?
35:10 Any final thoughts you would like to share with my viewers?
36:25 Special Gifts from My Garden for Roman
39:41 How can someone contact you?
After watching this episode, you will learn how one farm is growing food in the hot summer weather in Las Vegas, Nevada and how you can grow in Las Vegas and likely be inspired to start your own urban farm.
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Jump to the Parts of the Video You Want to Watch
04:30 Main Crop Being Grown for Sale
07:12 Other Crops Being Grown
09:21 Growing in Full Sun
14:18 Growing Lettuce (and other crops) under Shade Cloth
18:30 My Tips for Growing Better
21:26 Amazing Free Mulch
22:32 Interview with Roman Starts
22:40 Is it true you quit your job to start farming in Las Vegas?
23:07 What do you think people in Vegas should grow?
24:15 What is your best green to grow in full sun?
24:44 Have you only been farming for 6 months with no prior experience?
26:48 What is one thing you would like to share with my viewers?
27:49 How did local people accept you at the farmers market?
29:10 When do you harvest to to take food to the farmers market?
32:16 What has been your biggest day at the farmers market?
35:10 Any final thoughts you would like to share with my viewers?
36:25 Special Gifts from My Garden for Roman
39:41 How can someone contact you?
Thanks for adding the time-stamps. They really help when going back to re-reference info when I look up this video later.
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Your videos are the main reason I am jumping back into gardening after a long, hard sabbatical. Thank you for trucking along and sharing your passion, it's a big part of my life and hopefully always will be (:
I want to grow this for grain and searched high and low for this video. I remembered watching it a few years ago.
Growing in excess heat is possible. I live in part of Australia that reaches 50°c/125°f in summer. I grow heat sensitive plants in the same patch and cover with shade cloth once the temperature hits 95f. On the upside, I grow food all year round. I can grow tomatoes from September through May/June
Great video. I had success watering a half hour from elevated sprinklers at about 8 feet high at sundown and at sunrise every other day and some times once on the day off depending on the looks of them. I had red lettuce and cabbage (
Great collaboration John. I live in Wisconsin, so in the frozen north in winter, growing some baby greens indoors will keep me healthy.
Kudos Roman. great job. I did lettuce and arugula this summer, kept it on area of more shade it worked. Had the aphid problem on the squash/zucchini as well. It is a learning lesson but excited for fall. Would love to see more in the future.. All the Best
Brigitte LM thank you! Check out my UA-cam channel for updates. Best, Roman
I'm glad I don't have to deal with the same heat as them. I'm pretty lucky up here in Beautiful British Columbia
I live south of Tucson, and I MUST use shade in the summer. I know you get a little militant about shade, but it's a vital tool that I find necessary. Also, it saves on fresh water use in my irrigation system.
I live in north las vegas, and I grow a lot of my own food. it does take a bit more work, and some planning but once you have those things worked out, its not hard, we have a LONG growing season!
Swayy Watkins My nonprofit agency here in Vegas wants to start a giving garden to grow food for seniors as a means to give them a long term food source. Im a virgin gardener meaning i hv never planted anything. Can you give me any suggestions to help us get started?
Leatrice Swayy Watkins you have facebook? I very want to see your farm 🙂
John have been to the Queen Creek Olive Mill in Queen Creek Arizona? It's southeast of Mesa. They grow all their own olives and have their own olive processing plant. If you're ever in the area, stop by. They make all kinds of foods and specialty froducts with olives and oil. Free samples! The olives soak up this heat and thrive!
Awesome video guys. Love to see a fellow farmer that started about the same time I did. 👍🏻
Great job Jon, the info is great.. i love the shirt too! "Im kaleing it", pure awesomeness!
Love ur vids!! keep up the great work!!
Awesome video! Roman is doing a great job!!
Your organisation is fabulous! Thank you very much for sharing.
Great! Keep up the good work, Roman!
We call it kangkung here in Indonesia. They do grow on water and form long shoots of leaves on water. I can see why it is called water spinach
Really good video!
Stay with the restaurants, try using a overhead mis with humid acid ( see John’s video on Las Vegas worm grower)
Awesome gifts John 🎁
Thank you so much! I am getting excited to try again! New information
Great work.
John Kohler when are you going to go spend the day enterviewing Paul Gautschi about his Back2Eden Woodchip Mulch garden?
Give the people what we want to see... =< ]
Love you man.
I would like to see you compare your two properties Gardens. The one in California and the one in Las Vegas
I overhead water early morn or late evening and my plants thrive..I also use IV Oganics spray to protect my plants from sunburn, ontrees, shrubs and vegies..mainly tomatoes and peppers. Check it out if you can
Great vid! looks like a morning glory!
Thumbs up
inspiring!
HEY JOHN LOVE YOUR CHANNEL , I LIVE IN NOR CALI AND LOVE TO TUNE IN AND ENJOY THE KNOWLEDGE , REFRESHING , I NEED TO SAVE UP TO GET ONE THOSE JUICERS YOU SELL , I BEST GET OFF YOU TUBE AND GO TO YOUR ACTUAL WEBSIGHT,
Jon how can I get one of your tree collards,and the water spinach
I'm looking to move to Las Vegas & growing my own food. I'm looking for ideas with these videos.
OddlerPro Grow Some Weed instead!!!🗿🚬☁
OddlerProd, where are you moving from? And what factors make you want to move to Las Vegas? I'm looking to move south from Chicago, but I'm not sure where yet. I just want to avoid the winters we have. I'm thinking possibly Jacksonville, Florida, because of their average lows and high temperature, rainfall, sunny days and population size. The next thing I'm doing is looking into the culture of people that live there.
If you want to learn a lot about growing in Las Vegas contact the Master Gardner program. They have a lovely demonstration garden.
Wood chip mulching, shade cloth, ollas, rain barrels/ rain chains and drip hose irrigation are commonly used by most gardeners out here in the desert. Most desert gardeners compost in a tumbler like the Joraform. The spring and fall months are the best gardening seasons and seeds and starters for the summer are normally planted in July when the monsoon arrives. The winter months are cool and sunny with some freezing cold nights from December to January. The soil somewhat varies from very sandy and fragile to heavy caliche clay with lots of rocks (a pickaxe might be necessary) and it's mostly very alkaline. There is a cool seed company called Native Seed Search in Tucson, Az that sells rare and native southwestern crop seeds. And one more thing, be careful what you plant and grow in the hottest months, both June and August.
Can I come visit y'all when I'm there in the next few weeks,please
Is this from July? I think we had the same flight to SFO and the flight was delayed for hours!!!
Great to see this here in Vegas. I noticed he has a aphid problem. Actually he has an Argentine ant problem. I fought those guys organically for years with no results. Finally this spring i hired a pest control company to kill the ants. We did it in a way that only used traps at each trail away from the garden. I wished I had done this years ago.. Now the garden is back in balance.- all the beneficial insects are back- mantis', bees, lady bugs, even the lizards and birds are back. I have had no aphids, no hornworms, even the squash bugs are controlled. A few more caterpillars and leaf worms but ill take those over aphids.
Invasive species need to be eliminated to get the naturals back.
William P Hall the ant problem isn't that bad and can be controlled. I have a lot of hummingbirds. I saw a huge lizard yesterday. Several species of dragonfly. My sunflowers are blooming and bringing in bees. Many beneficial. Keep in mind that this I am in my first year so things take time to build.
You have an awesome garden- great job!
The UBUNTU Contribution System
For the aphids and other pests... is there any truth to vinegar helping at all... or a garlic mixture? That's organic, right? I just want to hear it from a pro. Pinterest has a ton of myths, you see.
I live here in Vegas and about 3 months ago I started attempting to grow indoor Romain Lettuce, Celery and Green Onions.
I keep failing except for the Green Onions.
Any helpful tips?
I know nothing about gardening.
Also...do you know where I might be able to take gardening classes?
THIS & THAT with KAT GARDEA you can always stop by and ask questions. 😀
What days is the Farmer's Market?
John, can you talk about the best way to cure olives?
Hepatia I cured some of my olives. It takes a couple of months and water changing at least once a week to get rid of the bitterness before canning. I threw in some of my peppers as well
pray for houston flood victims and donate to the red cross or volunteer please!
Have Lived In Vegas For "38" Yrs. Have Been To The Farmer's Market's, And The Fruit & Vegetable's, Have NO TASTE, Just Like WHAT They Have Shipped In, From Wherever, At The Grocery Store's.
Does the lettuce get bitter because of the heat?
Yogiedog1 under the shade cloth it doesn't get bitter.
Good know, wondering the same thing.
How's your girlfriends parents in Houston??