Jump to the following parts of the Episode: 00:00 Episode Start 00:20 Vegetables that Grow in the Heat 01:15 What these crops need to grow: Almost nothing 02:10 Why You should plant these as a farmer 02:53 Start of 10 plants to grow in the extreme desert heat 03:02 Wild Spinach - Lambsquarter 04:28 Britton Shiso 05:25 Water Pepper 06:22 Black Nightshade - Edible Berries 08:19 Mallow 09:03 Purslane 10:17 Cat Mint aka Catnip 11:20 Jewel of Opar 12:23 Dandelion 14:17 Celery PS. Links to some recommended seed sources for these seeds.
Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved and given eternal life. John 3:16 (share the good news of the gospel around the world!) John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans 10:9 “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.” Galatians 3:26 King James Version 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Titus 3:5-7 King James Version 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” King James Version (KJV) Revelation 4:11 King James Version 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 16:12 “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” King James Version (KJV) (Share the good news of the gospel around the world!) Jesus Christ/Yeshua is coming! Repent now, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and be saved and given eternal life while you still can!) The prophecy of Euphrates River Drying Up is happening now 2022 UA-cam channel: ARN News Iraq's two main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, will run completely dry within two decades unless action is taken, a report by the country's water ministry has warned. The two rivers, which originate in Turkey and run through Syria, are the source of up to 98 per cent of Iraq's surface water supply.Dec 3, 2021 Source: thetimes .co . uk
Thanks for sharing... most don't know what we see as weeds today we're a staple in the Great Depression era. I saw an older woman talking about how dandelion greens were fought over, and high in nutrition
Awesome video! This is so helpful as we are moving toward a more “wild” permaculture version of gardening to keep our soil covered. Even in zone 4B we appreciate some of these same plants already, like purslane and Lambs quarter which actually grow wild here. I’m excited to have some ideas of other things to sprinkle in and let go wild! I finally decided God is a much better gardener than I ever will be, and am now in love with all the wild food and medicine around us. 😍
Some foods that grew in extreme heat over 100 degrees in Northern California’s slightly moist air forest mountains: Living mountain water, fertile soil, no toxic chemicals, Keep soil damp: beets, bell peppers, carrots, green beans, squashes, tomatoes, blackberries, raspberries in shaded area, trees: figs, lots of others. remove in 1 day when ripe, next day it becomes dried produce on bush/tree. Requires bear 🐻 personality to survive extreme weather, even then, Mother Nature will break the toughest strongest humans ;)
I just weeded around my volunteer cultivated purslane in my greenhouse. The cultivated purslane leaves are 3 -4 times the size of the weed. (Johnny's, Baker Creek, ettc.)Highest green vegetable in omega 3 fatty acid.
The celery is called "cutting celery" in case anyone is looking for the seeds. It does very well in all weather - ours grows year round in zone 8. Definitely a more pungent flavor than you get with regular celery so you need less of it when cooking!
I've not heard that term but I'm growing lovage and looked it up and it seems to be the same thing. It was a new plant to me, but I've been increasing the perennials in my yard and this one has been quite promising.
Jodie, I googled it because it does look similar. Here's what it said. "Cutting celery is often confused with parsley or lovage, but has a distinct celery flavor. It is used in recipes where its stalky cousin wouldn't be suitable."
Cat mint as tea calms the stomach and intestines if they are spasming. It's a calming tea. Dandelion was brought to America from Europe as part of people's medicinal herb gardens. It's not just super nutritious, it has numerous medicinal properties - definitely worth reading up on. Eating a whole one (roots and all) can stop a UTI in its tracks (if you catch the UTI early on). Bees rely on dandelion flowers in the spring to survive when nothing else is blooming.
John, the celery is used by many chefs, in the know, it's great! I love it because I can add a great celery flavor to any dish. It is stronger than the franken celery in the stores, but you don't need as much, but it's free in my garden and I don't have to run out to buy celery anytime I need it. I use the stalks as well, finely diced, and they cook up tender. The only thing it can't do is give large stalks, for eating with Peanut butter, but the flavor of celery is usually all that is needed in most dishes. I bought one plant years ago and now i have it growing everywhere. They are a two year crop, seeds the 2nd year, so I always let them go to seed. I can tell a celery plant as soon as I see the first true leaf. It's not invasive, I move baby celery plants around as I see them. I grow them in pots with other plants, like tomatoes or peppers, and the celery acts as a good ground cover, to protect the roots of the potted plant with plenty of shade. They actually get quite lush and are billowy and attractive, with a good growth habit. Easy to control, just remove lower stalks as it grows and freeze, freeze dry, or dehydrate for later use. Can be powdered as a flavoring agent. A gem in my garden, and a fabulous cooking staple!
I managed to grow some wild lettuce & rosemary from seeds. It has been around 95" here in So. CALIF. I have put them in semi-shade. Have watched them daily. Careful to not overwater. Their growth has been slow but stable. The wild lettuce is growing better than the rosemary
The first one mentioned is most always called Lambs quarters where I live. It is closely related to quinoa and the seeds are edible too. It's my favorite wild green; smells so good when cooking! Early in the growing season I pick the entire tops of plants and cook them stems and all. Later just the leaves. So much better than spinach and no work at all.
Hi John! I didn’t have time to garden for a while due to long work hours but now I’m back and I am very happy to see you again, your nature and humor make me feel better, please keep making videos, you never know entirely how much impact you have on people’s lives. Thankful grandma.
Hi John Thanks to your videos I’ve built up a list on what works for me in a very hot climate. Chinese Celtuce Chou Moellier kale Purple tree collard Edible hibiscus Chaya (bit like Katuk, need to blanch leaves though) Egyptian Kale (tad spicy, like mustard greens) KanKong (grows in water also) - water spinach Tropical lettuce (also red veined variety) Brazilian Spinach (sissoo) Ashitaba - Japanese Red Vein Sorrel Malabar Spinach - (two varieties, red stem and purple stem) Surinam Spinach Jerusalem Artichoke Red Hibiscus Gynura Procumbens (Longevity spinach) Okinawan Spinach Mizuna Chop Suoy Green Amaranth (Chinese Spinach) Egyptian Spinach Watercress Katuk Ice cream bean plant Gynera - cholesterol lowering plant Perennial Ochra Purslane Sambar Spinach Perpetual Spinach Warragul Greens (Australian native spinach) Bolivian Cucumber (Achocha) Nettle - can get stingless varieties Mushroom Plant
When I grew peppers in Houston the first ones, in the early part of summer were fine; as the season progressed the skin grew to be so tough that I stopped growing them. From you I learned that if I grew them under something taller and bushier they’d be easily edible. Those black little berries -nightshade-grew near the first place I lived as a child. I was very interested in the garden plants. I was warned not to ever eat them cause they were poison! I did play house with them. On the purslane…those are the originals. The ones I get are flowering. They are hybrids from porculaca combined with those “wild” ones. Since I have only a patio, I am sadly limited as to what I can grow. Fingernails, toenails, a little hair and especially older!!!😂
I live in zone 9b and the past 3 summers, I've had great success growing cowpeas and sweet potatoes. Planted in late May and they are just now getting to peak production. Getting ready for a 2nd cowpea harvest and the vines are still growing.
Thank John! I live in Tucson and I love this. I plant ten kinds of amaranth. Delicious cooked leaves, like kale and spinach, and very ornamental. Ours are 6’ tall with large magenta or gold cone shaped foot long seed heads with thousands of edible seeds. They self seed every year. 💖💖💖💖 thanks for your great work!
Tree spinach grow big and has surpassed everything on my property in health and vigor my red malabar spinach is doing well considering the over hundred degree weather.
@@ralsharp6013 i have found it spreads well too, i tried many times to get it to grow unsuccessfully, then one year it works and now it comes back year after year without fail and it is so beautiful!! The green with pink highlights i agree gorgeous. Its flavor is a little dry but I think of it now as more of a wild edible with how hardy it is. Growing unkept in my yard yet stronger than many other plants, i loved it before but really have a greater respect for it now. Especially since i continue to try and grow kale and it gets so much pest pressure this tree spinach no ptoblems what so ever.
Florida here. Zone 9, approx 100 miles north of Tampa. Under live oak trees , filtered canopy with little sun except for a period…..2:30 and 5:30pm. wondering how much sunlight is required for your suggested plantings? Love this video! Would love to see more on heat tolerant plants. Thank you
Blackberry nightshade leaves are used in El Salvador as fillings for Pupusas. I found this out when I saw this in my friend's garden in El Sal. I've been growing since
Has anyone ever said that you and prepper princess would be a perfect partnership? U r both such amazing and real personalities that it seems you would partner or collaborate in some way. ThAnj you for the wonderfully presented invitation!
I took so long to see the video as I kept going to Amazon to see those plants. Little difficulty in finding few. Black Nightshade we eat the leaves too and their raw fruits are dried in the sun and added in gravy.(Manattakhali)
Thanks for the video. My own climate problem is low light levels with months of cloudy weather, sometimes with heavy rain, here in the wet tropics. Temperatures are about 30° C.
this could give you another 30 shows to produce. Instead of people buying plants or seeds, Help them to find plants that grow wild in their area and can be moved into the garden setting so the garden will really take care of itself will little money or time spent. For example, Florida we have the everglades tomato, sea grapes, cabbage palm and wild yams. In most of the county they have wild grape vines. in the northeast we have grape vines, milkweed that has an edible center to the stalk, dandilions everywhere for the roots, leaves and blossoms. wild blackberries in the northeast, paw paw i think in indiana and many different types of greens nationwide. These gardens would need little if any fertilizer, pesticides or poisons. You would be helpting the planet and people even more. Monoculture is a danger to our ecosystem and this would reduce that issue. Oh in Florida, Bananas and papayas grow easily too and mango trees grow wild in some areas down here too. To fill in the blanks of knowledge you don't have, you could find classes that teach about wild edibles in different areas and bring in those teachers as your guest. Bye for now and good growing!
Purcaline is growing along my lawn. A different kind of wild spinach I bought from an old lady plucked the leaves and planted the stems. Now I have them in mine and my daughter's house
Thanks, John-- as always, another great video filled with helpful, practical information. Been watching your channel for years. Now i need to get going and garden! (Not just a spectator sport🙄) Thanks! 🌱🏆
Black Nightshade IMO is falsely believed to be poisonous and toxic. It is not. If this concerns you, please read www.foragersharvest.com/uploads/9/2/1/2/92123698/black_nightshade.pdf to educate yourself about this misunderstood plant.
I got some wonderberry seeds from somewhere a long time ago (baker creek?) and have had wonderberries ever since. They are super easy and the berries are lovely. We chill the berries and hubby loves them with yogurt or ice cream. i think they are a great compliment to the summer food forest. I just munch of few as I pick them.
My easiest summer crops in the California desert are: Amaranth (I grow both seed and leaf amaranths. The leaf ones give me beautiful big leaves to eat in summer), green onions, chives, basils and other herbs, malabar spinach, okinawan spinach, cherry tomatoes, sweet potatoes for both leaves and tubers, wonderberries (these things are super easy and not all plants get pests), tomatillos, chard, beets. Some of the crops you mentioned really hate my garden. I cannot sprout a shiso to save my life. Or rather, I have sprouted a few but they all die. Mints all die. I keep trying with purslane, but yep, death. OH yeah, that type of celery. Also death! One day! Oops. forgot. I love lambsquarters. I have selected mine to have larger leaves and seed later in the season. I have noticed that all the ones in my garden now are big leafed and last year, they did not seed until really late. They also seem to survive the summer spider mites better as the years go on.
It is good to see your videos in my feed again. For whatever reason, a while ago, they stopped showing up. Glad to see them, very informative. Texas can get pretty warm, it’s good to know what can take the heat! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌸
The hardest part of the changing climate is the hot summers (for us anyway lol) but still a shorter growing season than you true hot climate folks! Just more work having to start things indoors than we used to!
I even got some wild forest greens in the rainy season from the tribal people selling along the road and planted their roots after eating the greens. Let us see if they grow
Just for general information, I had a pile of leaves, sticks, kitchen scraps etc in my yard and naturally dandelions found their way to it. They grew to a very surprising size and harvesting was so easy, I've now seeded it with seeds and and partial root stems (which surprisingly grew) I have access to fresh young leaves from spring to first killing frost.
Dock is another good one. I've got some dock (yellow? curly? I donno) growing in my yard: it has recieved no irrigation and has grown prolifically. Another good one is strawberry blight, a type of goosefoot (similar to lamb's quarter). It produces little red berries that actually taste pretty good. Again, mine has recieved no irrigation at all.
Thank you for this video! Some of these I was aware of but quite a number of them I didn't know about. It's awesome having alternatives when the heat gets extreme.
I need this video too. Most of my stuff died this summer too. I did have good success in the winter with broccoli and cabbage. In the Spring I had good success with small gourmet potatoes where I just planted organic quarters from the grocery store that sprouted. Lavender, Rosemary and sage grow great in Vegas too.
I knew we were going to have an extremely hot summer here in Sacramento when I saw the purslane pop up in April. Usually it doesn't pop up until July or August when it's really hot
Watching from australia. Pickled purslane is yum! Great with meat, just eat in moderation. Not 2 jar fulls like i did and had intestinal pain. But i recommend pickling purslane and am growing purslane here. I got it from an abandoned car park. You find it in parks, pops up in backyards, great nutritious easy plant. Tell people its not a weed, to keep it in their garden! Plant with roots, easier than cuttings.
John i have to remind your viewers new and old about your trip to JRN nursery, that is an amazingly helpful video for people who struggle. I have since grown them most every year and visit them regularly as i am blessed to live about an hour away. I have killed so many mail order purple tree collards but malabar spinach does wonderview Longevity spinach, okinawan spinach, perennial vegetables really are the way to go. I also continue to buy and grow. The video about your favorite vegetables that surprised you mail order from wellspringgarden where you talked about the kikos crump, and Aunt lils which is my favorite as well it is so beautifula and anthocyonin content is an added bonus these are the only two they currently have for whatever reason. Sadly i have not properly protected them during the winter so every year i stated again but they are worth it and grow fast. Mulberries are such a hated berry yet they are super delish, healthy and the leaves are edible if you heat process them so it is a win win. I do appreciate the time and effort you put into your channels and lifestyle, i agree with your continue to learn and grow as you go. In the heat grow cherry or the marble size tomatoes, you will thank me later. Those are the only ones i feel i have had sucess in as well as success in self seeding! Ube root amazing and tough, many do not think or understand sweet potato, of which i choose japanese sweet potato grow like a weed you can eat the root raw or cooked BUT HERE IS THE KICKER IF YOU LET IT GO IT WILL GROW LIKE A WEED!!! no joke plus it too will come back every year if you just let it go and grow wherever you do not have to harvest if you do not want to and if you are letting it go wild there is not much to harvest anyway but it will continue to produce massive amounts of greens that can be eaten both cooked and raw. The sweet potatoe is truly a perfect survival food.
I agree. Sweet potatoes: Leaves, tubers, all edible. So easy to grow. Loves the humidity heat. In a good raised bed, wont be destroyed by cyclones, flooding or drought. Put cuttings in water and it will grow roots too. Watch its growth explode in high rain periods too.
@@eurekaelephant2714 yeah i am kindda in love with japanese sweet potatoes 🍠 Not a fan of american sweet potatoes as the only way i was ever fed it had marshmallow’s and butter and brown sugar never been a fan…. The japanese sweet potatoe is a good mix of potato and sweet potato, when i waitressed at a chinese restaurant this is how i learned about them and tried many foods foreign to the American palate but very delish plain and simple. My boss would eat them cooked plain or with a little ketchup, i am no ketchup fan so i would and still eat them plain mostly, occassionally a little siracha or salsa but they have such a great flavor i could go either way.
@@crazyfarmgirl606 ok. Thats interesting to learn, thanks. I will google that to see if we can get that here. Im in Australia. Im growing the orange one and hawaii one, white tuber.
@@eurekaelephant2714 any sweet potatoe works really In my yard i just choose japanese because that is the one i like the most and is most accessable i am trying to grow the purple Hawaiin one but i bought it as a slip so it needs more time. My yard has a ton of mulch too so it just makes runners and spreads. I have some in totes as well they work well also just a matter of preference. Good luck! The leaf of the sweet potato raw is actually a pleasant green to eat also not objectionable in my opinion double bonus when you do not have to force feed them but actually enjoy the flavor. Grow what you love to eat
@@crazyfarmgirl606 yeah ok. I googled it and it looked yummy! If i can pick one up around here, i'll grow it. Yes I love eating the leaves when Im in the mood. Keep on growing on!
What a beautiful garden! Considering the bushy hiding places, how do you keep the snakes out? I have a small bushy garden and have seen snakes crawling near it. I almost gave up gardening because of them.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Start
00:20 Vegetables that Grow in the Heat
01:15 What these crops need to grow: Almost nothing
02:10 Why You should plant these as a farmer
02:53 Start of 10 plants to grow in the extreme desert heat
03:02 Wild Spinach - Lambsquarter
04:28 Britton Shiso
05:25 Water Pepper
06:22 Black Nightshade - Edible Berries
08:19 Mallow
09:03 Purslane
10:17 Cat Mint aka Catnip
11:20 Jewel of Opar
12:23 Dandelion
14:17 Celery
PS. Links to some recommended seed sources for these seeds.
Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved and given eternal life. John 3:16 (share the good news of the gospel around the world!)
John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 10:9
“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.”
Galatians 3:26 King James Version 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Titus 3:5-7 King James Version 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
King James Version (KJV)
Revelation 4:11
King James Version
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Revelation 16:12
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”
King James Version (KJV)
(Share the good news of the gospel around the world!) Jesus Christ/Yeshua is coming! Repent now, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and be saved and given eternal life while you still can!)
The prophecy of Euphrates River Drying Up is happening now 2022
UA-cam channel: ARN News
Iraq's two main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, will run completely dry within two decades unless action is taken, a report by the country's water ministry has warned. The two rivers, which originate in Turkey and run through Syria, are the source of up to 98 per cent of Iraq's surface water supply.Dec 3, 2021
Source: thetimes .co . uk
Thanks for sharing... most don't know what we see as weeds today we're a staple in the Great Depression era. I saw an older woman talking about how dandelion greens were fought over, and high in nutrition
Awesome video! This is so helpful as we are moving toward a more “wild” permaculture version of gardening to keep our soil covered. Even in zone 4B we appreciate some of these same plants already, like purslane and Lambs quarter which actually grow wild here. I’m excited to have some ideas of other things to sprinkle in and let go wild! I finally decided God is a much better gardener than I ever will be, and am now in love with all the wild food and medicine around us. 😍
What plants are natural painkillers (that are legal)🤭😁
Some foods that grew in extreme heat over 100 degrees in Northern California’s slightly moist air forest mountains: Living mountain water, fertile soil, no toxic chemicals, Keep soil damp: beets, bell peppers, carrots, green beans, squashes, tomatoes, blackberries, raspberries in shaded area, trees: figs, lots of others. remove in 1 day when ripe, next day it becomes dried produce on bush/tree. Requires bear 🐻 personality to survive extreme weather, even then, Mother Nature will break the toughest strongest humans ;)
YES JOHN!! Please do MORE EXTREME HEAT VARIETIES
Yes, please. I'm trying to grow more of my own food and the heat has been so frustrating this year.
And dryness?
1. Lambsquarter
2. Britton shiso (Perilla)
3. Water pepper
4. Black Nightshade (berries)
5. Mallow
6. Purslane
7. Cat Mint aka Catnip
8. Jewel of Opar (ua-cam.com/video/LCa7i_wlSL4/v-deo.htmlsi=K_0N5jOe_Loi7_xx)
9. Dandelion
10. Celery
11. Tokyo becana
Thanks
I just weeded around my volunteer cultivated purslane in my greenhouse. The cultivated purslane leaves are 3 -4 times the size of the weed. (Johnny's, Baker Creek, ettc.)Highest green vegetable in omega 3 fatty acid.
@@MaLiArtworks186 I'd add Tokyo bekana to the list as well as many other brassicas.
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But Tokyo becana doesn't really grow in high heat, they need a lots of moisture as well
We get so much purslane and lamb's quarter all over the garden that I feed it to the chickens on a regular basis and they love it.
I eat lamb quarters myself although I free range my chickens and they enjoy it also
The celery is called "cutting celery" in case anyone is looking for the seeds. It does very well in all weather - ours grows year round in zone 8. Definitely a more pungent flavor than you get with regular celery so you need less of it when cooking!
I've not heard that term but I'm growing lovage and looked it up and it seems to be the same thing. It was a new plant to me, but I've been increasing the perennials in my yard and this one has been quite promising.
Jodie, I googled it because it does look similar. Here's what it said. "Cutting celery is often confused with parsley or lovage, but has a distinct celery flavor. It is used in recipes where its stalky cousin wouldn't be suitable."
@@jodieh4739 Thanks I was just gonna ask if it was the same thing!
I heard that regular celery is strong flavored if not blanched. Could this type be wrapped or draped and blanched as well?
Thanks!!! I am in zone 7b and just planted some… I bought the seeds a while ago but finally planted them a few days ago.. hopefully mine works well! ❤
Cat mint as tea calms the stomach and intestines if they are spasming. It's a calming tea. Dandelion was brought to America from Europe as part of people's medicinal herb gardens. It's not just super nutritious, it has numerous medicinal properties - definitely worth reading up on. Eating a whole one (roots and all) can stop a UTI in its tracks (if you catch the UTI early on). Bees rely on dandelion flowers in the spring to survive when nothing else is blooming.
John, the celery is used by many chefs, in the know, it's great! I love it because I can add a great celery flavor to any dish. It is stronger than the franken celery in the stores, but you don't need as much, but it's free in my garden and I don't have to run out to buy celery anytime I need it. I use the stalks as well, finely diced, and they cook up tender. The only thing it can't do is give large stalks, for eating with Peanut butter, but the flavor of celery is usually all that is needed in most dishes. I bought one plant years ago and now i have it growing everywhere. They are a two year crop, seeds the 2nd year, so I always let them go to seed. I can tell a celery plant as soon as I see the first true leaf. It's not invasive, I move baby celery plants around as I see them. I grow them in pots with other plants, like tomatoes or peppers, and the celery acts as a good ground cover, to protect the roots of the potted plant with plenty of shade. They actually get quite lush and are billowy and attractive, with a good growth habit. Easy to control, just remove lower stalks as it grows and freeze, freeze dry, or dehydrate for later use. Can be powdered as a flavoring agent. A gem in my garden, and a fabulous cooking staple!
I powder mine! Way better than any celery salt in stores. I don’t salt mine.
Wow I love this it is amazing
Looks like you have your drip line is connected to a rain barrel. Can you show the setup and supplies you used.
For the leafy green algorithm.
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I managed to grow some wild lettuce & rosemary from seeds. It has been around 95" here in So. CALIF. I have put them in semi-shade. Have watched them daily. Careful to not overwater. Their growth has been slow but stable. The wild lettuce is growing better than the rosemary
The first one mentioned is most always called Lambs quarters where I live. It is closely related to quinoa and the seeds are edible too. It's my favorite wild green; smells so good when cooking! Early in the growing season I pick the entire tops of plants and cook them stems and all. Later just the leaves.
So much better than spinach and no work at all.
greets from the Kalahari❤❤
i love how this is all oriented around culinary purposes. It's the only reason I'm interested in gardening.
Hi John!
I didn’t have time to garden for a while due to long work hours but now I’m back and I am very happy to see you again, your nature and humor make me feel better, please keep making videos, you never know entirely how much impact you have on people’s lives.
Thankful grandma.
John out here changing and saving lives
Hi John
Thanks to your videos I’ve built up a list on what works for me in a very hot climate.
Chinese Celtuce
Chou Moellier kale
Purple tree collard
Edible hibiscus
Chaya (bit like Katuk, need to blanch leaves though)
Egyptian Kale (tad spicy, like mustard greens)
KanKong (grows in water also) - water spinach
Tropical lettuce (also red veined variety)
Brazilian Spinach (sissoo)
Ashitaba - Japanese Red Vein Sorrel
Malabar Spinach - (two varieties, red stem and purple stem)
Surinam Spinach
Jerusalem Artichoke
Red Hibiscus
Gynura Procumbens (Longevity spinach)
Okinawan Spinach
Mizuna
Chop Suoy Green
Amaranth (Chinese Spinach)
Egyptian Spinach
Watercress
Katuk
Ice cream bean plant
Gynera - cholesterol lowering plant
Perennial Ochra
Purslane
Sambar Spinach
Perpetual Spinach
Warragul Greens (Australian native spinach)
Bolivian Cucumber (Achocha)
Nettle - can get stingless varieties
Mushroom Plant
What is this "tropical lettuce" you grow? Where do you get seeds?
Love your garden and education. Thank you for sharing.
You look younger today than the way you looked in older videos. Eating right!
@@merrycontrary3520 😀
I was thinking that too! He looks younger each year!
egyptian walking onion is also incredibly self sustaining
How may one obtain it?
I am in north Texas.
Yes!! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! This desert heat is BRUTAL!
Thank you!!!
When I grew peppers in Houston the first ones, in the early part of summer were fine; as the season progressed the skin grew to be so tough that I stopped growing them. From you I learned that if I grew them under something taller and bushier they’d be easily edible. Those black little berries -nightshade-grew near the first place I lived as a child. I was very interested in the garden plants. I was warned not to ever eat them cause they were poison! I did play house with them. On the purslane…those are the originals. The ones I get are flowering. They are
hybrids from porculaca combined with those “wild” ones. Since I have only a patio, I am sadly limited as to what I can grow. Fingernails, toenails, a little hair and especially older!!!😂
I live in zone 9b and the past 3 summers, I've had great success growing cowpeas and sweet potatoes. Planted in late May and they are just now getting to peak production. Getting ready for a 2nd cowpea harvest and the vines are still growing.
Wow Thank you 😊 God Bless 👏👏👏🙏
Thank you for this! I’m considered a lazy gardener, and easy is always a great thing.
Thank John! I live in Tucson and I love this. I plant ten kinds of amaranth. Delicious cooked leaves, like kale and spinach, and very ornamental. Ours are 6’ tall with large magenta or gold cone shaped foot long seed heads with thousands of edible seeds. They self seed every year. 💖💖💖💖 thanks for your great work!
Please can you state the varieties you like best for seeds and those for leaves?
My red amaranth didn't do well in the heat
I am in the DFW area. I am having trouble with the heat, drought and critters.
Help!
Tree spinach grow big and has surpassed everything on my property in health and vigor my red malabar spinach is doing well considering the over hundred degree weather.
I grow the giant spinach too!. It's wonderful
@@ralsharp6013 i have found it spreads well too, i tried many times to get it to grow unsuccessfully, then one year it works and now it comes back year after year without fail and it is so beautiful!!
The green with pink highlights i agree gorgeous. Its flavor is a little dry but I think of it now as more of a wild edible with how hardy it is. Growing unkept in my yard yet stronger than many other plants, i loved it before but really have a greater respect for it now. Especially since i continue to try and grow kale and it gets so much pest pressure this tree spinach no ptoblems what so ever.
I grew up in St. George Utah and have just started getting into home gardening. I’ve been searching for this video and bam you make one🙌
LOVE this...❤I'm in Houston
Florida here. Zone 9, approx 100 miles north of Tampa. Under live oak trees , filtered canopy with little sun except for a period…..2:30 and 5:30pm. wondering how much sunlight is required for your suggested plantings? Love this video! Would love to see more on heat tolerant plants. Thank you
Wonderful! I call it gorilla gardening, common mallow and purslane everywhere! Thank you.
Sunchokes or Jerusalem artichokes are pretty dang resilient and come back year after year. I think the mack daddy of them all is horseradish.
Hello from surprise Arizona zone 9b! love the shirt! thanks for all the tips and tricks brother.
The sandhill cranes out front ate half of the ripe black nightshade berries yesterday. Definitely edible.
Blackberry nightshade leaves are used in El Salvador as fillings for Pupusas. I found this out when I saw this in my friend's garden in El Sal. I've been growing since
Has anyone ever said that you and prepper princess would be a perfect partnership? U r both such amazing and real personalities that it seems you would partner or collaborate in some way. ThAnj you for the wonderfully presented invitation!
I took so long to see the video as I kept going to Amazon to see those plants. Little difficulty in finding few.
Black Nightshade we eat the leaves too and their raw fruits are dried in the sun and added in gravy.(Manattakhali)
Watching from Australia, very interesting!
Always informational,John. 💜
Thanks for the video. My own climate problem is low light levels with months of cloudy weather, sometimes with heavy rain, here in the wet tropics. Temperatures are about 30° C.
So informational. Thanks John. Ive been a fan for a long time. You have been such an amazing person. Keep up the great work my friend.
I love what you do for many years now so well done thank you!
this could give you another 30 shows to produce. Instead of people buying plants or seeds, Help them to find plants that grow wild in their area and can be moved into the garden setting so the garden will really take care of itself will little money or time spent. For example, Florida we have the everglades tomato, sea grapes, cabbage palm and wild yams. In most of the county they have wild grape vines. in the northeast we have grape vines, milkweed that has an edible center to the stalk, dandilions everywhere for the roots, leaves and blossoms. wild blackberries in the northeast, paw paw i think in indiana and many different types of greens nationwide. These gardens would need little if any fertilizer, pesticides or poisons. You would be helpting the planet and people even more. Monoculture is a danger to our ecosystem and this would reduce that issue. Oh in Florida, Bananas and papayas grow easily too and mango trees grow wild in some areas down here too. To fill in the blanks of knowledge you don't have, you could find classes that teach about wild edibles in different areas and bring in those teachers as your guest. Bye for now and good growing!
Purcaline is growing along my lawn. A different kind of wild spinach I bought from an old lady plucked the leaves and planted the stems. Now I have them in mine and my daughter's house
Malabar spinach or poi in India
Thank you so much John, another helpful video for us living here in Las Vegas!
Thanks, John-- as always, another great video filled with helpful, practical information. Been watching your channel for years. Now i need to get going and garden! (Not just a spectator sport🙄) Thanks! 🌱🏆
You. Have. A. Kumquat. Tree?!?!?!
I look every year for it at all the stores. We love em
Black Nightshade IMO is falsely believed to be poisonous and toxic. It is not. If this concerns you, please read www.foragersharvest.com/uploads/9/2/1/2/92123698/black_nightshade.pdf to educate yourself about this misunderstood plant.
I got some wonderberry seeds from somewhere a long time ago (baker creek?) and have had wonderberries ever since. They are super easy and the berries are lovely. We chill the berries and hubby loves them with yogurt or ice cream. i think they are a great compliment to the summer food forest. I just munch of few as I pick them.
Thank you
Nice 👍 💕
Thank you.
And yes curly and burr docks,witch their seeds can be use for flour for breads.
I’ve been wanting a video like this thanks
My easiest summer crops in the California desert are: Amaranth (I grow both seed and leaf amaranths. The leaf ones give me beautiful big leaves to eat in summer), green onions, chives, basils and other herbs, malabar spinach, okinawan spinach, cherry tomatoes, sweet potatoes for both leaves and tubers, wonderberries (these things are super easy and not all plants get pests), tomatillos, chard, beets.
Some of the crops you mentioned really hate my garden. I cannot sprout a shiso to save my life. Or rather, I have sprouted a few but they all die. Mints all die. I keep trying with purslane, but yep, death. OH yeah, that type of celery. Also death! One day!
Oops. forgot. I love lambsquarters. I have selected mine to have larger leaves and seed later in the season. I have noticed that all the ones in my garden now are big leafed and last year, they did not seed until really late. They also seem to survive the summer spider mites better as the years go on.
It is good to see your videos in my feed again. For whatever reason, a while ago, they stopped showing up. Glad to see them, very informative. Texas can get pretty warm, it’s good to know what can take the heat! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌸
The hardest part of the changing climate is the hot summers (for us anyway lol) but still a shorter growing season than you true hot climate folks! Just more work having to start things indoors than we used to!
Great video!
Loved this great info
I even got some wild forest greens in the rainy season from the tribal people selling along the road and planted their roots after eating the greens. Let us see if they grow
I love watching your videos because you look so natural, happy, and carefree. Very cool man! 😎
Great content
Hey John sounds like a good upcoming live stream. I've been growing moringa it just goes nuts in the heat
efo shoko (lagos spinach) digs the heat, too.
Thanks for such a great episode. I’m watching this at work and tagged it to rewatch at home when I can take notes. :)
Just for general information, I had a pile of leaves, sticks, kitchen scraps etc in my yard and naturally dandelions found their way to it. They grew to a very surprising size and harvesting was so easy, I've now seeded it with seeds and and partial root stems (which surprisingly grew) I have access to fresh young leaves from spring to first killing frost.
Fantastic video!!! You are a joy
Dock is another good one. I've got some dock (yellow? curly? I donno) growing in my yard: it has recieved no irrigation and has grown prolifically. Another good one is strawberry blight, a type of goosefoot (similar to lamb's quarter). It produces little red berries that actually taste pretty good. Again, mine has recieved no irrigation at all.
Thank you for this installment.
😍🤙🏼You made a 15min-ish video❣️Thank you SO much! Love your content & really appreciate the editing due to life's time constraints!
I love your channel, this great sdvice for our brutal summers, and your cheerful t-shirt!
You are my favorite plant nerd 💚💚💚
Very informative, thank you!
Including the morringa seeds, thank you looking forward to hearing from you, God bless.
Yet another great video, thanks John
Thanks again for your attention to detail.
Awesome information John. Many thanks from S Africa.
Thx john Its summer It has been hot every year since time began
🌸👍🏼🌺thank you so much for your 10 tip pick to grow in real hot weather !
Thank you for this video! Some of these I was aware of but quite a number of them I didn't know about. It's awesome having alternatives when the heat gets extreme.
Thank you for the video appreciate all the knowledge you put out there
I grow dandelion and use the leaves in my teas along with mints, mojito and strawberry. I havent harvested chicory yet it hasnt flowered .
Thanks John!
Love that topic I live in Jamaica west indies and heat is a major problem.thanks.
Thank you John!
Awesome thanks bro 😎
I’m going to try to grow something 😄💰I just got plants they are nice
I need this video too. Most of my stuff died this summer too. I did have good success in the winter with broccoli and cabbage. In the Spring I had good success with small gourmet potatoes where I just planted organic quarters from the grocery store that sprouted. Lavender, Rosemary and sage grow great in Vegas too.
Great video. Thanks John.
You can also use the mallow seeds as an egg white!!
thank you John.....very good!
I knew we were going to have an extremely hot summer here in Sacramento when I saw the purslane pop up in April. Usually it doesn't pop up until July or August when it's really hot
I've noticed I prefer the small stems and leaves of the celery more than the huge stalks.
Watching from australia. Pickled purslane is yum! Great with meat, just eat in moderation. Not 2 jar fulls like i did and had intestinal pain. But i recommend pickling purslane and am growing purslane here. I got it from an abandoned car park. You find it in parks, pops up in backyards, great nutritious easy plant. Tell people its not a weed, to keep it in their garden! Plant with roots, easier than cuttings.
Thank you for your content. Great work
John i have to remind your viewers new and old about your trip to JRN nursery, that is an amazingly helpful video for people who struggle.
I have since grown them most every year and visit them regularly as i am blessed to live about an hour away. I have killed so many mail order purple tree collards but malabar spinach does wonderview
Longevity spinach, okinawan spinach, perennial vegetables really are the way to go.
I also continue to buy and grow. The video about your favorite vegetables that surprised you mail order from wellspringgarden where you talked about the kikos crump, and Aunt lils which is my favorite as well it is so beautifula and anthocyonin content is an added bonus these are the only two they currently have for whatever reason. Sadly i have not properly protected them during the winter so every year i stated again but they are worth it and grow fast.
Mulberries are such a hated berry yet they are super delish, healthy and the leaves are edible if you heat process them so it is a win win.
I do appreciate the time and effort you put into your channels and lifestyle, i agree with your continue to learn and grow as you go.
In the heat grow cherry or the marble size tomatoes, you will thank me later. Those are the only ones i feel i have had sucess in as well as success in self seeding!
Ube root amazing and tough, many do not think or understand sweet potato, of which i choose japanese sweet potato grow like a weed you can eat the root raw or cooked BUT HERE IS THE KICKER IF YOU LET IT GO IT WILL GROW LIKE A WEED!!! no joke plus it too will come back every year if you just let it go and grow wherever you do not have to harvest if you do not want to and if you are letting it go wild there is not much to harvest anyway but it will continue to produce massive amounts of greens that can be eaten both cooked and raw.
The sweet potatoe is truly a perfect survival food.
I agree. Sweet potatoes: Leaves, tubers, all edible. So easy to grow. Loves the humidity heat. In a good raised bed, wont be destroyed by cyclones, flooding or drought. Put cuttings in water and it will grow roots too. Watch its growth explode in high rain periods too.
@@eurekaelephant2714 yeah i am kindda in love with japanese sweet potatoes 🍠
Not a fan of american sweet potatoes as the only way i was ever fed it had marshmallow’s and butter and brown sugar never been a fan…. The japanese sweet potatoe is a good mix of potato and sweet potato, when i waitressed at a chinese restaurant this is how i learned about them and tried many foods foreign to the American palate but very delish plain and simple. My boss would eat them cooked plain or with a little ketchup, i am no ketchup fan so i would and still eat them plain mostly, occassionally a little siracha or salsa but they have such a great flavor i could go either way.
@@crazyfarmgirl606 ok. Thats interesting to learn, thanks. I will google that to see if we can get that here. Im in Australia. Im growing the orange one and hawaii one, white tuber.
@@eurekaelephant2714 any sweet potatoe works really
In my yard i just choose japanese because that is the one i like the most and is most accessable i am trying to grow the purple Hawaiin one but i bought it as a slip so it needs more time.
My yard has a ton of mulch too so it just makes runners and spreads. I have some in totes as well they work well also just a matter of preference. Good luck! The leaf of the sweet potato raw is actually a pleasant green to eat also not objectionable in my opinion double bonus when you do not have to force feed them but actually enjoy the flavor.
Grow what you love to eat
@@crazyfarmgirl606 yeah ok. I googled it and it looked yummy! If i can pick one up around here, i'll grow it. Yes I love eating the leaves when Im in the mood. Keep on growing on!
Thank you for sharing!!👍❤️🙏🇺🇸
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What a beautiful garden! Considering the bushy hiding places, how do you keep the snakes out? I have a small bushy garden and have seen snakes crawling near it. I almost gave up gardening because of them.
Awesome Thanks for all the good info as always!
#Thankyou as always for the wealth of information you contribute. #Keepupthegreatwork
Thanks so much 🙏 awesome & needed video.
you can roast dandelion root and make chicory and make dandelion jam with flowers before they fluff.. or just eat the flower in salads too
When many of us were trying to eliminate these wild plants from our gardens and yards, the good Lord kept bringing them back to us. 😂
Excellent!
You got yourself a new sub❗️ Looking forward to learning. 😊👍