She Has Been Growing Vegetables in the Desert for 30 Years!

[@growingyourgreens]

Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:29 40-Foot Live Christmas Tree!
02:19 Front Yard with Fruit Trees & Container Gardening
03:22 Best Citrus Tree to Grow in Las Vegas
04:08 Olives Grow Easily in Las Vegas
05:02 Tour of Backyard Garden Starts
06:22 Raised Beds - Eat The Food You Grow
07:11 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Winter
09:43 Eat Your Brassica Leaves, Flowers, Stems, and Pods
12:07 Growing Kale, Brocolli, Collards in the Winter
12:50 Use Venitian Blinds to Label your plants
13:50 Growing Lettuce in the Winter
16:04 Plastic Raised Beds - Winter Vegetables
16:55 Grow Garlic in the Winter in the Desert
17:37 Low Maintenance Fruit Tree in Vegas: Pomegranate
18:18 Rooting Your Fruit Tree Cuttings
19:14 10-Year-old Minature Peach Trees
20:21 Don't Harvest Your Grapefruits too Early
21:31 Short-Term Vacation Rentals in Leslie's Garden
22:42 Best Vegetable Seeds You Can Grow in Las Vegas
24:54 Interview with Leslie Doyle the Tomato Lady
25:35 Leslie Books on How to Garden in Las Vegas
26:25 Why did you start growing vegetables in Las Vegas?
27:02 What are Your Secrets for Growing In Vegas?
29:40 What are your winter gardening tips?
32:12 How to get a private Class from the Tomato Lady
36:42 How can someone stay in Garden on Your Vacation in Las vegas
38:18 How You can Connect with Leslie
39:26 Do this to be Successful Gardening in Las Vegas
Connect with Leslie- sweettomatotestgarden.com/ email: [e-mail] phone: [phone]

[@callieward8362]

I love this story . It sounds like she started gardening when she was 40? It's never too late to start something new!!! Look how much she has done in 30 years!! Wow, way to go, girl!

[@PlantedByChris]

Thank you for revisiting the Tomato Lady! One of my favorite past episodes.

[@elaineg4921]

I purchased all my garden soil from here about 4 years ago. She is a very nice woman.

[@gledell85]

I’ve met Leslie and have toured her amazing garden. She is lovely and full of information. I need to visit her again 💕

[@paradiseseen]

She so 😍

[@effieinglish]

So cute when she lectured John! Yes, John, listen to what she says! 🤣🤣

[@daneli9770]

Tomato 🍅 lady I remember her she is awesome

[@christinebaker3293]

No, she's a fraud: highdesertpermaculture.org/2010/08/23/toxic-sewage-sludge-biosolids-sold-with-garden-soil-by-gro-well-and-organic-gardening-test-gardener-leslie-doyle/

[@serenitytrek]

💚👍You always warm my heart & inspire me! 🖖😍 May You Live Long & Prosper, John! 🌱 Happy Holidays! 💚

[@Raina430]

Wow, great video. Leslie is very interesting to watch, so calm and reassuring. ❤ I live in tucson so the climate is similar.

[@truthbetold2611]

What a lovely lady! If I lived in Vegas I'd be visiting Leslie often. Thank you John

[@makeyourlifeeasier5794]

Wish I lived in Vegas. Wind chill 15 below here today!

[@Original-Phantom]

My veggies are sprouting strong because of your advice, thank you @growingyourgreens

[@Mimulus2717]

I live in Sonoma County and fall gardening is so tricky as it can get over 100 degrees in September and October. Planting with seed direct in soil is dicey. It seems better to begin starts indoors where you can control the temps better (or buy starts) and plant out in mid to late October. On the other hand, I have picked ripe cherry tomatoes for Xmas dinner from plants put out in May....still growing (if we have not had a hard freeze) in December. If a freeze in the forecast, I have cut the plants at ground level and hung them in the garage where you fruit continues to ripen amazingly well. (but it gets messy and takes alot of space not everyone has).

[@kimhicks4781]

I watched the video ten years ago. This one is even better. Just love her. Happy Holidays to both of you and blessings always 🙏❤️💞⭐👍

[@mingxu1183]

now I know I can take her lessons and see her garden during my visits

[@thefrontporch8594]

Do a vid on nematodes...I can't grow sheet except for tropical plants.

[@rocio2917]

Thanks for this. I was planning to grow the greens in the Central Valley in Sept of '22, but the temps were still triples. So I didn't do it. I welcome your thoughts.
Leslie seems amazing!

[@bakerwannabe4435]

Great info. Thank you for sharing the information about Leslie. She seems amazing. I would love to meet her and learn. I wonder if growing in Las Vegas is similar to Phoenix Az, do you know?

[@tonycanaris1778]

I used store bought beefsteak tomatoes and sliced it and planted the seeds in 2023 October shallow in 25 gallon container. I m getting tomatoes during February and aptil. Some of the plant is dried but still flowering and giving fruit. This was a test trial. Next year i m planting 2 or 3 more 25 gallon containers and planting 2 ti 3weeks apart into November and December so i get fruit till june .

[@quail333]

Did you see the new concrete corners for 2x6 raised bed gardens at Home Depot? Versatile!

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

Thanks!

[@CactusCaffeine]

Wow, I want to meet her! I live in Vegas, too. 😊

[@Raina430]

Amazing garden. I’d love to know what Leslie does with all those lemons!

[@makeyourlifeeasier5794]

Great video John except you're cold there in Vegas? Try coming to the northeastern US in winter. Near zero today! Keep up the good work John!

[@mingxu1183]

I am retiring to Las Vegas with my family. I am a biologist and gardener. I enjoy the video and hope to stay in Leslie's rental place when I travel there to find a property. any help to find this rental as a verified Arabnb vacationer. thank you! thank Leslie!

[@diversitylove5460]

❤ she has a cute 🐶

[@FeistysWitch]

This is slightly off topic but I live in a desert too and we have so many cutter bees during the spring planting season that you could reach out in the air and grab handfuls of them. How can you prevent cutter bees from destroying plants before the plants flower? We have so many cutter bees here that when I put out my starts or they start sprouting, the bees absolutely demolish the plants in less than 72 hours. I want them around to pollinate but they destroy everything I try to plant before it's big enough to flower or big enough to take the damage. I need a large garden to provide for my family and animals and I'm hoping there's some ways to stop them early in the season until the garden is big enough to handle the damage that doesn't include netting because that would be immensely expensive and I can't afford it. I also can't afford to lose my entire garden before it reaches a foot high. I don't want to use pesticides at all but I absolutely need this garden this year to make ends meet and keep providing for my family.

[@brazmoncey]

🤔 I would suggest several things: grow a plant that the leafcutters prefer more as a sacrificial plant, grow a nursing plant to house predatory insects, if you water using a drip system use diatomaceous earth on the leaves (it does block some light on the leaves but are like razor blades for insects). For pesticide I would use an anti-feedant like Neem Oil on juvenile plants the negative is that it's a broad insecticide and fungicide. In general have a good compost and mulch pile to keep your soil healthy and filled with aerobic bacteria and fungi (which helps with plant growth and protection) and since you don't spray with pesticides may I suggest you foliar feed with compost tea.
Bt has been known to effect bee larvae and I'd be inclined to think spinosad would have a similar effect (since both are bacteria used to kill caterpillars).
Sorry I can't be more specific on what plants to use because I live in soCal (zone 10a) which means I don't know how they will react to your climate, that you'll have to do your own research on.

[@kimsmith1675]

Hi John,
Just wondering if her seeds are organic, non-gmo or heirloom?
Sean and I will have to give her a call and take her class. We’ve been really intimidated by wanting to invest in growing our own garden and not wanting to waste time and money not knowing how (especially for growing here in the desert).
Merry Christmas 🎄,
Kim and Sean

[@nuruisake]

I am in the same boat on all accounts.

[@christinebaker3293]

Leslie was kicked out of the Las Vegas Yahoo gardening group because members had purchased entire YARDS of her "custom mixed ORGANIC soil" including SEWAGE SLUDGE.
Leslie never backed down, I've contacted the gardening magazine featuring her -- but they didn't care.
Star Nursery also sold me MANY yards of mulch that was allegedly native forest product, but Star never provided the data sheet. Someone else later exposed the Star fraud.
Trust no one!
highdesertpermaculture.org/2010/08/23/toxic-sewage-sludge-biosolids-sold-with-garden-soil-by-gro-well-and-organic-gardening-test-gardener-leslie-doyle/

[@kimsmith1675]

@@christinebaker3293 thanks for the heads up! I can’t imagine all of the chemicals/pharmaceuticals that could be in that sludge!🤢

[@Clarissadc]

All seeds sold to regular consumers are non gmo. Non gmo are only sold to big companies.

[@Ann1234]

Your HAT😂

[@cupmccutcheon3009]

How fare are you from Vegas

[@giojibear1114]

???? Thanks for the tour! Does she use any shade cloth?

[@mplslawnguy3389]

If you listened to the interview, she says right off the bat that she doesn't.

[@giojibear1114]

@@mplslawnguy3389 I did listen to the interview, but unfortunately I missed that part. Which is why I asked the creator the question. It wasn't really necessary answer my question in such a tone after an entire year has passed.

[@DeniseLynneRancour]

I need cc on your video as I am deaf. Plz!

[@-.Whiteness-.Witch-.]

Seasons Greetings 🍀

[@ryleymcmullin8913]

It’s against the law to plant fruiting olive trees in Clark county

[@rebeccaspratling2865]

Then you're obligated to break that unjust law.

[@mplslawnguy3389]

@@rebeccaspratling2865 It's against the law because it's invasive and it ruins the local native ecosystem. But yeah, go ahead and break the law and destroy things because it's what YOU want to do.

[@Elementaldomain]

No CC 😭😭😭

[@Greenhealthlifestyle]

I absolutely despise canned Olives