10 Vegetables that Grow on their Own Despite Extreme Heat

In this episode, you will learn the easiest, most heat tolerant vegetables you can grow with rising temperatures in 100+ degrees heat that grow without issue and produce nutritious food for you, your family, and your community.

First, John will share more about the crops that he grows in his garden including transplants but also many volunteers that grow on their own without his intervention.

You will learn the specific vegetables that reseed on their own and grow without any work from John the gardener, and how he has lots of food to eat from these plants that grow themselves without any care.

You will discover the 10 crops that easily grow themselves every year in John's summer garden.

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

After watching this episode, you will learn the specific crops that grow without care, as well as some of the microclimates they grow best in. You will learn how to source some of these seeds so you can grow them yourselves without any work.

Referenced/Related Episodes: Easiest & Hardest Vegetables to Grow in 100+ Summer Garden Heat
Top 8 Vegetables You Can Easily Grow in 100+ Degree Hot Summers
10 Strategies You Must Follow to Garden in the Hot Summer Heat

Top 5 Leafy Green Vegetables that Thrive in the Summer Heat 100+

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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.

[thehighcheef]

YES JOHN!! Please do MORE EXTREME HEAT VARIETIES

[gyongyipedersen]

1. Lambsquarter
2. Britton shiso (Perilla)
3. Water pepper
4. Black Nightshade (berries)
5. Mallow
6. Purslane
7. Cat Mint aka Catnip
9. Dandelion
10. Celery
11. Tokyo becana

[schomestead]

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!

[Ded-Ede]

Looks like you have your drip line is connected to a rain barrel. Can you show the setup and supplies you used.

[falconbritt]

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.

[elizabethbrown]

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.

[ISayFinn]

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!

[OffRampTourist]

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.

[KimCarter-pdlk]

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

[crazyfarmgirl]

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.

[hippychikforever]

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.

[equalizer]

John out here changing and saving lives

[Gtr]

i love how this is all oriented around culinary purposes. It's the only reason I'm interested in gardening.

[jasminkasarajlic]

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.

[nancyhjort]

Love your garden and education. Thank you for sharing.

[edwinlopez]

Yes!! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! This desert heat is BRUTAL!
Thank you!!!

[skinnydog]

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

[angelawoodward]

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!!!😂

[AmzBackyardOrchardandVineyard]

Hello from surprise Arizona zone 9b! love the shirt! thanks for all the tips and tricks brother.