Urban Summer Desert Vegetable Garden Tour and Tips

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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a tour of the summer desert garden and shares with you what he is growing in the hot summer of Las Vegas without the use of shade cloth. In this episode you will learn about many of the crops he is growing and how they are doing. Along the way, he will share his hints and tips with you that will enable you to be a better gardener and a healthier person. After watching this episode you will have a better understanding of what crops and how to grow if you live in a desert environment.

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What I'd love to see in a video is budget gardening for military community. Because we move so much it's so hard to establish a garden everytime we move. I'm in alamongordo NM

John - I'm here in Vegas. This is my first Fall garden and I think black flies are attacking my broccoli. What's best to use to kill fall pests here?

love your idea of giving back some to nature, thank you for sharing.

Great video again. Love all your videos about desert vegetable garden, it helps me a lot. Please do more.

Im in Odessa Tx . Very similar to your climate . I have a bit of a crazy situation . We are restricted to watering 2 days a week . I had the idea to sandwich my rows of veggies with thick rows of pine bark mulch . This is my first garden and have got small onions, jalapeno, and my okra just now started to produce .. my cucumbers stalled out to heat but have got about 3 cucumbers . my yellow squash is doing awesome ? any advice on this water situation. I cheat and fill a water can for emergency

"they start eatin too much, I get a little pissed off" ...haha funny stuff. The wind jacked 1 of 3 patio Cherokee Dwarf Tomato plants I had growing on my 3rd floor balcony. Makes a man shed a single native tear. =P

Lol no microbes and fungi break down and extract minerals from the soil just fine. If u were just dependent upon pure chemical reaction with the air, yeah it might take along time..

John, You might want to do some mulching. Mulching retains water and provides a reflective surface for the sun. Mulching also provides a means to maintain your soil's temperature. During the winter, it will keep the ground warmer and in the summer, it will keep your ground cooler. Additionally, the mulching will keep your black pipes cooler, so you will not scorch your plants with hot water. -KP

Loved your video. Lots of good info for us trying to grow in a desert. Thanks! Just one thing. I grow sweet potatoes. Assuming you want tubers to grow, I'd suggest letting the leaves grow on the ground. To my knowledge, they flower and send out a tuber into the ground much like peanuts. I could be wrong. I believe most varieties you find today tend to produce about one foot from the main stem; so a 3 foot barrel might work best. You share so much, I had to share what I think I know too.

So, I guess the added minerals in my bottle of "improved" distilled water aren't actually dissolved. Common sense says otherwise. Also, as John says.. there have been far too many examples that show yields and quality that attest to a different conclusion.

Mulch?

Hehe potatoes definitely poisonous, but sweet potatoes, delish and can be quite expensive in stores! YumM! If only I can grow them well in temperate sydney?...

I am trying to cross watermelon with cannabis, anyone else think this will work! PS I am attempting gene splicing not cross pollination LOL. I will call them Groovy Mellon!

John, have you tried growing Goya, Okinawan bitter melon? They look a bit odd, but are packed with vitamins and minerals.

John what happened to your arm?

John, thank you for the video. Do you start all your many of your plants from seed? You grow such a large variety of plants. Could you direct me to any video you have of starting your own seeds?. I tend to have some difficulties with starting seeds. My plant starts never look as good as the ones from the nursery. I have grow lights and do watch them carefully, water etc . Any suggestions?

Hey John, love your vids. Whats your opinion on Survival type gardens that use a guild style of planting. They say it's 3 dimentional growing and can produce 5x the food in the same space when using perenial plants/trees/shrubs. Plus they require much less work. Less or no pesticides and ferts. Thanks-Ron in Florida.

Great to see your garden I bet the basil and tomato smells wonderful. I am trying to find the right plants for here in Switzerland but want too try sort of Permaculture in two beds this year I have a lot of bio mass.

good video. Out here in NM for greens for the summer my best producer is malbar. I have it on a 8 foot tall x4 foot wide trellis and it fills it completely. Lots of food in small space right.

True, potato leaves are toxic. However, sweet potato leaves are not the slightest bit toxic and are quite delicious.