It was a HOT summer, and plenty of plants died. The real story is the ones who survived.
Introduction 00:00
Summer Champions 00:27
Which crops struggled? 09:29
Starting some seeds for indoors 12:42
Planting seeds in the beds 17:20
Updating in-bed vermicomposting bin 18:52
Planting snapdragons 20:22
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40 Comments
Fantastic informative video!! Love your green apron. Where may I obtain one? Love the vermi-compost bins in each bed. I have a stacked tray type bin but this is genius. Carry on sista. You are an excellent teacher ❤
Fountain Hills. I’m wondering how your Armenian Striped Serpent cucumber did? I had surprising success with Butternut squash, sweet potatoes, yard long beans, Long Green Armenian squash asparagus and melons. Other gardeners I know had success with eggplant.
Absolutely beautiful. That luffa trellis arch is so cool. I completely agree about hands in the dirt.
Did the chayote survive?
I planted Sesame after watching a previous video of yours, I had a hard time getting seeds to survive, but realized I was over watering, now I have some healthy 5 foot tall black sesame doing well, thank you!
You seem SO much more relaxed and natural in recent videosLess stiff, less like reading off a script. Brava!
Basil and chocolate mint were my only summer garden survivors here in Phoenix. The basil is doing great and the mint is tiny, but seems strong. I didn't anchor my shade structure well enough – the frame and all went right over the fence during one of the big haboobs and I have yet to repair it!
my garden is young but dinosaur kale made it in the full blazing texas sun. pomegranates and figs did fine. problem was they died to the ground in the freak freezes last winter so not much fruit.
I lost track of how many plants died, but it was a lot. I kept replacing them with black-eyed peas, which have done very well. My sorghum is thriving right now. Roselle has been a champ and is starting to have a few first flowers. My newest tree this summer was a neem tree. I got it as a 3' tall bitty guy a few months ago and is taller than me now. That tree loves full sun. I can't wait for it to shade my garden and provide green mulch for my plants.
In Sun City West only sweet and purple basil, one Serrano pepper plant, lemongrass, sweet potato, spearmint, eggplant and Jasmine survived the evil summer. No fruiting, just survived. Thank you so much for sharing what survived in your garden way down south😂
It’s funny I said it again and again ..fall has been better for me 🌱
What a beautiful video Angela. Is that a new camera you are using. May I ask what kind? My summer garden champions were sweet potato and basil. I have a couple of corn stalks in grow bags that I just hand pollinated (wish me luck). Thanks for sharing your garden.
So much great info in this video. Thank you ! How do you avoid fungus gnats with your indoor seedlings?
Hi Angela, great show! I love your channel. My husband and I were gone for nine weeks – when we came home there were a variety of seven beautiful 2 foot tall basil plants. I’ve already made pesto and I’m looking forward to sharing seeds. Thanks again for all your Information and garden love!
This was an excellent video, Angela! Love these longer format ones and seeing you in action like the seed starting and planting. So well produced, too. Nice job 👍
This video is the most helpful one I have watched. The detail and the acknowledgment of the extreme heat is so helpful; and makes me feel like we are in the same "game." While my experience is much less, it is nice to see the good and bad of this crazy hot summer. So appreciative of the details and insight you offer. And glad to see that others experience the same problems. Thank you so much! This video is the very best! Also, I have tomato starts – when do you think it will be time to plant them outside?
Thank you for the lovely video! What survived in my garden was roses, basil, jalapeño peppers, and flowers. My lisianthus made it until part way through August. My cantaloupe and zucchini died prematurely due to me not catching spider mites. Next year I’m thinking of spraying Neem oil monthly as a preventative but I’m concerned it might hurt beneficial insects. What is your experience with this? I also lost the 2nd flush of baby cantaloupe and watermelon to a ground squirrel! The trap I tried for trap and release was the wrong one (Squirreligator). I plan to try a different kind next year. My hollyhock transplants all grew (heat? what heat?) so I’ll be planting more by seed soon.
Nor cal here 8b9a, Armenian cucs and green beans are my stars this year , peppers are decent , tomatoes terrible as usual here. Had some mildly hot weather , not much over 100 and not for very long. Spring sown beets have done great as well. Thank you for your very informative videos, always learn a lot here!
I have an accidental cross of Delicato Squash and probably a yellow zuchinni or crookneck thst went absolutely nuts growing out of the beds at what seems like a foot or so a day on each runner. Overwhelmed the melons and even nearby tomatoes which is on me, but they're surprisingly tasty and prolific although as of last week powdery mildew showed up along with an army of aphids going after the weakened vines.
In around a month I'll be putting fast growing greens in, the average first hard freeze here is from the middle of December to Early January but came more than a month early last year and my Cannabis Sativa had just made it under the wire,
I have enjoyed this video the most of any videos I have seen in my recent memory. So much good information not too short and could have watch much longer. Thank you for all of the good information and showing the steps. Need one of those nets and the tool for making the hole which I think you called a divet. Thank you
Here in the UK we are having a spot of hot weather, great to see how you deals with it. 🏖
My lemon lime and amethyst basil's grew well. So did some of my armenian cucumbers, tomatillos, roselle hibiscus, a d okra.
Thank you so much for this video! It is so great to see what you do and how you do it. I appreciate the time you took to share this information with us!
Your videos are remarkable. The content, filming… editing Just ALL of it 🌱
I've had eggplant and melon blooming and I've been self pollinating this summer, but nothing ever grew. Is it possible that it was just too hot this summer for the pollen to be viable?
This is the video I needed in my life! Im in Phoenix and basil is pretty much all I have left. Already started seeds for the fall! Thanks for all you do Angela!!! 🌱 🌞
My best producer was Armenian cucumbers. I have never grown them before but was pleasantly surprised at how well they grew in 100+ temps
Great Video. Thank you. Forney, TX
Are you familiar with Native Seeds Search? They have a lot of arid adapted heirloom seeds from the SW, and they're a non-profit. I got a Yaqui heirloom basil from them — it was delicious — kind of like cinnamon in that it has some the anise flavor but it's sweeter. They also have tepary beans, which I'm really interested in trying as a summer cover crop, some of them can supposedly sprout from a single summer rain. Not from them but from another company I got coyote tobacco, which I use as a wildflower/summer cover but that did amazing in my summer heat, not sure how it would fare for you — I guess some people see it as a weed though. I also don't get tomato hornworms in my area really at all so it might not be a good choice for people who struggle w/ that pest, but other moths and hummingbirds can use it as well as a nectar source.
Where do you find the mesh bins you use for the in-bed vermicomposting?
When is the best time to start Roselle from seed? I live in CA 9b and would like to grow, brings back childhood memories
Fantastic video.
Oh the heat burnt out my bean plants
So many garden channels do not tell you what zone that they are in. And I have to try to figure it out as I'm watching and see if they are is any value in what they filmed for me. It's so refreshing that you introduce yourself and you tell everyone exactly where you are and what zone you're in. I'm in Youngtown Arizona about an hour from you and I'm in 9B
Many ideas and a healthy dose of hope! Thank you Angela😊 We had an unusually wet and cool summer all over Europe; in Slovenia where I live, beans, cucumbers and zucchini were thriving, tomatos not so much. Since winters are getting milder, I benefit from autumn crops, especially all sorts of radicchio.
I had my White Basil since March went through hell with the heatwaves so as my Asian Red Basil it thrived. My Basil its leaves is almost as big as your hands no kidding lol. I kept it pruned, I pruned and threw Bone meal in the midst of 118 degrees for experimental it seems to love that. Now I have way too much of Basil. I water it 2x daily morning and evening. My Bok Choy and Zinnia are germinating as I speak, again I am experimenting trying to see if Sept is best to plant them. My Eggplant and Cucumber hasn't germinated yet. I fine the big bulbs Zinnia will droop when it gets hot out Vs the skinny Zinnia it bloomed and bulbs daily. All from seeds. Among many more I have comes back from last year.
I’m in Portland Oregon zone 8B. My most successful crop were my yellow bush tomatoes. I literally have hundreds of them. Very delicious.
I've been following your channel for a little bit. Definitely didn't lose as many this year as in previous years. Having mulch all over the ground really helped. Thank you for your inspiration.
What a great video Angela! You have been a wonderful resource of knowledge in my garden zone. Champions in my garden grapes, lemon grass, clematis and orange trees.
Only my basil, Serrano peppers and aloe vera survived