Garden Tour of My DESERT FOOD FOREST

Hey folks!

It is mid June and the garden is THRIVING. It's about to be the heat of the summer, so I wanted to a get a garden tour in before the real heat started to affect the growth of my crops.

Here in the summer, with multiple 100 degree days in a row, the garden tends to take a pause on production, so it is important to get your plants started early and producing quickly. Then when the monsoon season hits in August, they will come right back to life and keep producing again!

Join me on this gorgeous garden tour of the plants I hope to sustain this desert homestead with for an entire year!

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[riahsrabbitry]

Finally found an 8A gardener! The difference between 8A and 8B is crazy and so much of how people grow in and 8B doesn’t work for 8A. Thank you!

[ussgil]

Hello. Just found your blog. I feel compelled to tell you that your plants need shade. If you can afford it. It is worth it. More peppers, more everything. Water in the heat of the day. The evaporation helps keep the plants cool.

[michellemilot]

Okra Plants Loves Heat as they say.
Red Burgundy Okra are cool. When you cook them they turn green. 👍👌👌👌👌

[natasha-thesingingflower]

❤That is on my bucket list . To make a food Forrest in the desert.

[scottapache]

Make ollas and put them in your garden beds to keep the soil moist. This should stop the end rot.

[glow]

I watched lots and lots of gardening videos I noticed every body always say " i have to wait until my tomatoes ripen" you actually don't have to if you like Asian dish, we stirfry green tomatoes with 3 layers pork it's a very tasty dish served with Jasmine white rice. We also make hot and sour soup with fish with lots of Asian chiles delicious! This two dish is Cambodian authentic dish.

[tonycanaris]

I experimented with buying beefsteak tomatoes in October 2030 and sliced pieces and planted in a 25 gallon container. I didn't thin out the seedlings and got thick multigrowth and started harvesting tomatoes from March to now April 2024. Next year I m planting separate 25 gallon containers weeks apart so I can harvest longer into June summer. . I live in the desert imperial County on California Mexico border where it gets very hot in summer till late October . We are located 55 miles west of Yuma Arizona.

[johac]

Try and get some Tepary beans from Arizona, they will thrive in your zone.
Also Sunn Hemp is awesome, a legume that it very drought tolerant. Great soil builder, and does well chopped down to 12" then it comes back with a vengance, I'm in a zone 9B, so I cover crop two season and rotate every year, building soil too.
Get some Phoenix Tomato seed, they were developed to take heat, they cant take 9B but you should be OK, great taste.

[sharonrunkles]

I relocated from SW Washington (Columbia River Gorge) to South Central NM about eight years ago. Thank you so much for making this video! It is quite helpful. I love your garden and find you personally delightful.

[FolseFarms]

I agree living in the desert we do things differently. So your tomato plants should be thicker .also I don't use straw or heavy mulch because it hides bugs and makes it hotter in my opinion. I just use compost as a mulch. That's why I'm happy to see other desert growers, because alot of channels I see are in humid regions.

[joycebovee]

I spoke to our landscaper about two weeks ago regarding my very hot peppers. He said that I should grow them in sand. I did have a sand soil combination pot so I just threw some of my seeds in there and lo and behold. I have hot peppers! I just wanted to update you on my pepper issue. Lol.

[EclecticRedneck]

Put a little vanilla extract "mexican vanilla works too" and put it on like a cologne and the gnats and such will stay away.
I thought it was BS too till I tried it.

[FifiN-ms]

I like your big garden with the verity of chilly & tomato plants

[martainf]

I love this garden. I live near Palm Springs California. In a mobile home. I garden a lot. And love every minute.

[junejewell]

I live in Truth or Consequences, NM. I’ve not seen too many YouTubers in our area. I’ve done some tours. This year nearly all my annuals died when I went away for a week. My irrigation on timer leaked. Luckily all of my fruit & nut trees survived. Would love seeds of the things that do well here from you.

[johac]

Try Piel de Sapo, aka Christmas Melon, is has done OK in our 9B temps, and they keep real well open pollinated, but ive had to buy seed, as they dont do well from seed saving, the immature ones keep into the spring, I cut them for the chickens, for a melon they keep amazingly, almost like a squash. Almost.

[janettesmith]

I admire that you can grow anything in that heat!

[waldorules]

Thanks for your response! Happy gardening 🌱

[drbetsys]

Thanks! Great inspiration for desert gardeners

[VermiCast_Garden]

That garden is amazing.

Can't even imagine the amount of water that it takes to keep things growing.