7 Top Vegetables EASY to Grow in a HOT Summer

These are my "seven" top vegetables that are easy to grow in hot summer or warm climates like the subtropics or tropics.

Don't let the heat stop you from growing delicious food in your backyard no matter how sizzling hot summer gets! This list of vegetables not only love the hot weather they also taste great!

Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

[charliebrownau]

The list:-
0. Red Okra
1. Perpetual Spinach (Loves heat, good all year rounder, good in stir fry)
2. Egyptian Walking Onion
3. Corn/Maize
4. Egyptian Spinach
5. Tat Tailed Radish (seed pods in stir-fry)
6. Kangkong (water spinage)
7. Sweat Potato
8. KALE

[lorcanmoran]

man deserves his own show OR AT LEAST SOME SPONSERSHIP

[jeffreiling]

Here in Texas I haven’t found anything that is easier to grow through the 100 plus degree summers than okra. Easy, mostly pest resistant, cranks out spears like they were going out of style and just laughs off the sun without even wilting. It’s amazing.

[NannyOggins]

I´ve grown those “walking onions” in Scotland and they are incredibly hardy. Mine were a lot stronger in flavour than most varieties. They did good service for our family as they had been passed down the generations for around 40 years from one single original bunch.

[christinemarshall]

I think your one of the best garden videos channels on YouTube that is because you are friendly, humorous, to the point without waffling on about nothing and don’t assume your watchers know nothing.

[doinacampean]

Shared! The native Americans used to cultivate "the 3 sisters": corn, beans, squash. The beans will use the corn height to climb up and the squash will provide the ground cover to keep the moisture in.

[quizongilad]

your videos are like pringles. once you pop you can''t stop

[Jedivader]

I love this channel, its like watching a TV series but better. Mark you have inspired me to spend most of my weekends in my small suburban backyard transforming it into a little food production playground. Cheers from Dave in Melbourne.

[mikelash]

Sunflowers are a great hot weather crop and they look great in the garden.

[hiyunnie]

This has quickly become quite my favourite gardening/farming channel!
Easily entertaining, educational and comedic

[suecampbell]

So....we just ordered Walking Onions, a few types of spinach and Swiss Chard, a lettuce/cabbage combo that thrives in summer and more. We love watching your videos - if only YOU sold the seeds you'd reap greater reward, besides knowing that you're influencing the Veggie Farmers of FL, us! Thanks Mark!

[xellosblackforest]

You can add in ginger // chillies // lemongrass // brinjals // okras.. they love the sunlight..

[ImASurvivorNThriver]

Good stuff! We also grow Okra, Moringa, Hot Peppers, Calaloo, Seminole Pumpkin, Everglades Tomato, Black Cherry Tomato, Snake Beans, Cassava, and Collard Greens in the heat.

[KhushnaShah]

@1:40 perpetual spinach (variety of chard) stems can be used like celery
@2:28 Egyptian walking onions
@3:29 Corn 🌽/maize
@4:23 Egyptian spinach
@5:06 rat tailed radish
@6:02 kangkong (water spinach)
@7:19 sweet potato
@8:35 kale

[TheHappySensitive]

To add to the list: Nasturtium! It's kept on growing abundantly through the heat of summer while it was too hot for other salad-like plants. If it needs water, the suddenly droopy leaves will tell you and otherwise - it's super easy to grow and the leaves have a good, reliable taste no matter what the weather throws at it. Last year I didn't even know you could eat the leaves, this year it's become one of my favs! The little green pods that form after flowering are also good to eat thin sliced (very spicy). Plus, pollinators love it, so it's good for all!

[helicart]

I got back into growing a few things when I saw Kale for $5 and tomatoes for $16/kg.
I now have a couple of trellis' loaded with cherry toms and perpetual supply of bok choi, 2 kale and 2 spinach variants.

I live about 20 minutes from you, and am about the same age, and know the nutritional value of lots of leafy greens in the diet.
Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge. You've been a great motivation for me. And I've motivated a few neighbors to grow stuff, with my cuttings :)

[pamelag]

I grew an Italian kale last year, it was absolutely delicious! The leaves were longer, more narrow and very easy to harvest. Did well through the Eastern mid-Atlantic summer.

[MrGuez]

This Year, in Adelaide we nave no Bees after 6 months of stormy and frezzzy winter

[jjrh]

Thank you for making this videos I've been watching for a while. People don't understand how important it is to learn things like this. Specially on this times.

[walbiramurray]

I live in Alice Springs and found this video super helpful. I have also found Warrigal greens, Brazilian and Malabar spinach do very well all year round and the grasshoppers don’t munch on them either.