Top 5 DROUGHT Resistant Crops to Grow When Your Garden is THIRSTY!

When it rains, everything is happy, but when it's dry, there are a few plants that will stay happy! This episode we will discuss the top 5 drought-resistant crops to plant in your garden!

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[flyfishdr]

Hi Luke...add okra to the list. It can tolerate hot dry weather for a while.

[lcm]

GREAT TIMING for me!!!! I have a lot of these in my garden and I tend to be a 'water-happy' person. I will be watering all of these LESS!!! Thanks so much!

[FreeAmerican-mmmy]

In North Alabama Okra and Sweet Potatoes are two plants that can deal with our hot dry summers.

[christophergetchell]

Last year here in MA, we had a severe drought by August after pretty much no rain locally here for the better part of two months. Pretty much every little stream was dry and the reservoir was getting really low. We lost quite a few plants, with the exception of a couple of butternut squashes, a zucchini, and ALL of our tomatoes! Oh yeah, the weeds were also fine!

[timclark]

I am glad he has had two videos on watering. I probably overwater and am trying to back off a bit this year.

[lindapetersen]

Luke I just started my garden for this summer time like you had done last year !!! It is going great so am praying for the best garden this year got a lot of the things in the garden that you spoke of !!!

[TheSimArchitect]

Your arid must be different than mine. I can't go three or four days without watering most of those plants without them shriveling. I lost almost all my peppers (potted, so there's that) because I forgot them for a week. My basil isn't dead but whatever survived after 5 days without me watering them is stunted for weeks already. And I live in The Netherlands with a North facing garden behind a 4 story building. 😬

Even my chamomile is dying now I stopped watering it every other day, but I think it's because it went to seed and I was planting it mostly for decoration and didn't harvest.

[kele]

Dry farming, how interesting! That may explain some of the things I've seen when passing by small farms. Your herbs are amazing! I'd like to establish a really nice herb bed myself. Lots of good information here, Luke! Thank you!

[garden_geek]

Here in the Central Valley, CA I can’t kill most perennial herbs if I try! Rosemary is an invincible shrub, sage can handle months with zero water, thyme spreads all over the place given any amount of sun.

And I totally agree with your point about tomatoes being drought resistant. I’ve found that they absolutely prefer to be on the dry side compared to other fruiting crops.

[vanessaadams]

I grow varieties like Black Cherry, Yellow Pear, Brandywine, Black Krim, San Marzano every season and I don't dry farm but they get water MAYYBE once every week-2 weeks. Never had an issue with blossom end rot or a tomato plant dying, always 6-8ft tomato plants lol

[sandradunn]

Fun video. It’s great to see some of your humor come out in the posts. Thank you for years of info.

[rebeccarekward]

Nifty. I've always been curious about gardening approaches in Mexico.
This is quite useful to me.

[singhispraise]

I grow in the desert.. I water at least once a day if my soil isn't amended with coco core etc.

[MichelleMonstera]

Today I learned that I have been overwatering my peppers! Thanks for the info!

[clucksnducklins]

It just poured down torrents of rain here and I am so glad. No dragging my 300 ft hose around for an hour today!!.... Hopefully not for a couple days😅 It has rained maybe twice in the past 2 months here in Central IL.. The grass is so yellow and crunchy!!

[JeanneKinland]

I planted 80 pepper plants this year and it's doing great. They are about 3 ft. tall and loaded with good size fruit.

[XenobiaF]

The most drought resistant crop I have is okra!

[PlantObsessed]

I was on your site shopping the other day. i thought ot would be a good idea to have it sortable by early and maybe even by drought tolerance.

[camicri]

Wow, that's awesome! Thank you Luke ❤🤗

[janenichols]

Here in Tucson AZ peppers doing well, sage, basil and even strawberries with shade cover over the berries.