7 Perfect Vegetables to Grow in Hot Climates

Growing up in the south, whenever we got in trouble we weren’t spanked, we were sent out to pick okra without gloves.😂

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My balcony gets super hot in the summer but unfortunately there's also periods where it rains so much at once that even well drained pots get absolutely waterlogged. It's not possible to grow anything 🙈

Wow, it was so cool to hear about Malabar spinach since my family is from Kerala, India, and it is common there. Will try to grow it here in southern California🤞🏽

Anybody have any suggestions for New Mexico climate.

The term 'okra whooping' is not one I'm familiar with but I have heard 'spanking'. Not just for okra but for all plant starts such as tomatoes, okra, peppers and any other garden plant with a stalk. The purpose is to make the stalk stronger and more resistant to breakage due to high winds as well as making it healthier and resistant to disease. When flowering, this method also helps the blooms pollinate since most peppers and tomatoes are self pollinated. The method just helps the pollen transfer from the male part of the bloom to the female part. It does work. What I do is the moment the seeds germinate, I set a fan on low and a few feet away and if you have a model that oscillates, even better. I notice the stalks develop thicker stalks when this is done.

I’m not judging, and I don’t care, but are y’all a couple? I watched enough videos to wonder about it.

Would the tall type of single headed sunflower form new flower stalks from the arm pits of the top leaves when you pick the baby flower to cook and eat?

I am gardening in Central Virginia - 3 to 4 months of hot humid tropical weather, and I am always looking for plants that enjoy that kind of weather, from other regions and cultures Here are some further suggestions. Y'all had mentioned eggplant - I would like to emphasize that. There are a great many cultivars in an amazing variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Many, if not most of them are, in my experience, more productive and flavorful than the standard Black Beauty.

When night temperatures do not go below 75º F beans in the Phaseolus genus, such as the Kentucky Wonder type, tend not to set beans. Bloom like mad, but no beans. Chinese Long Bean adores heat and high humidity, and I suspect it would be fine with low humidity given adequate irrigation. The cultivars I find to be the best eating quality are Liana, Gita, and Orient Wonder. In that same category are the many varieties of that same genus (Vigna) known in the U.S. South as field peas, cow peas, southern peas &c. The famous black-eyed pea is one of those, but there are many others. They can be eaten as snap beans (when VERY young) shell beans, or dry beans. One of my favorites is the cultivar Zipper Cream Pea eaten as a shell bean rather like one would eat English Peas. In fact, the flavor is somewhat reminiscent of English Peas. They make very good soup beans.

Amaranth, known, in some parts of the Caribbean, according to my understanding, as callaloo. (In other parts of The Islands, callaloo refers to the leaves of taro/dasheen/elephant ear, a very different plant.) A very productive leafy green suitable for cooking - I suggest looking up Jamaican recipes for callaloo if you are not familiar with it just to start with - it is also common in some African, Asian and South Asian cuisines. The seeds are a classic in traditional Meso-American cooking. I find the plain-leaf cultivars to be better flavored than the variegated leaf types.

Egyptian spinach, AKA jute mallow, saluyot, molokhiya and many other names. It is also the plant from which we get burlap fabric and jute twine.This is NOT a spinach substitute - it is definitely for cooking - I reckon it is sometimes called Egyptian spinach because it is green and has been cultivated in Egypt from very ancient times. Also used in many African, Middle Eastern, Asian and South Asian cuisines.

Various edible gourds - Italian cucuzzi and its various Asian and African cousins. Luffa, from which we get luffa sponges - they are edible when 6 to 10 inches long. I find the ones with ridges are better for eating, and the smooth ones better for sponges, but they both work either way. Any number of Asian gourds such as fuzzy squash, wax gourd and so forth. Snake gourd. Widely grown in South and Southeast Asia, it goes by several names in English (Indian Bean, Guinea Bean &c.) plus, of course all the names in the languages in that region. All these are very vigorous - especially cucuzzi and luffa - 30 foot vines are not uncommon. the need a trellis and a good bit of space (or a sharp pruners and no fear of using them.) The gourds come in as the summer squash are getting tired and they can be used in similar ways as summer squash, though they are really not the same. Snake gourd is, in my experience, one of the milder mannered of the group.

Except for eggplant, all of the above are more or less outrageously vigorous. The beans and gourds do best on a (sturdy) trellis
And don't forget Watermelons!

are they ok growing in +48c?

If you live in a really hot area without much rain fall, peppers actually do surprisingly well in the shade. Some birds ate some of my hot peppers and dispersed the seed under some orange trees of mine and they did great without any extra care from me. The harvest/growth is a little slower, but the plants did way better through a dry spell than plants that I had in the full sun that I watered.
I tried malabar spinach and I found it nearly flavorless. It's only similar to real spinach in that it's a leafy green. I wouldn't plant it again.

Yay I am from Malabar ☺️

I didn't know a sunflower head could be eaten, how does it taste? You must make a recipe for it, Wow😮

Very good.

Any tips for getting rid of Roly pollies? They’ve exploded in my garden and are eating young plants!

Its so hot and dry here in Florida my green beans are dropping their blossoms. So are the cucumbers. I'm about ready to give up 😢😢😢😢

I’m in Summerville South Carolina, should I be growing the Malabar?

Did you buy or build the greenhouse in the beginning of that video?

is going to get HOT in michigan next week. I'm busting out the shade cloth

Malabar spinach is so abundan here in the philippines in mindanao it grows like a weed my backyard is full of malabar spinach. And the green type malabar spinach too it grows LIKE A WEED!!

Yes, I live in Houston, and we had almost a full 31 days over 100 in a month, a lot at 108 last year, so I need this info!

I grew Indian pepper, it's ~40°C here, and they aren't doing well.
Sunflower is doing fine.

Ocra is just a kind of weed here on borneo

You've grown sweet potatoes ONCE?!?!?!?!??!?! Potato Daddy......

my climate gets to 45c and 50c can i grow any thing ?

Bambara groundnuts

Perpetual spinach is a better option over Malabar IMO

Planted some Malabar and Armenian cukes today

Another plant that I know that loves the heat and hot climates would be Strawberries. For all of the fall and winter they are dormant and in spring they grow leafs but nothing really else. But when it hits summer it gets very hot and they start growing multiple flowers and also branch out and make new Strawberry Plants.

Prob one of the few from NM. But wow yeah I will give sunflower another chance and then bake the center. Sounds amazing. Through some seasoning on 👍😊

Love that you gave the history and place of origin of all the plants in this video. There are so many benefits in growing vegetables, fruits and grains local to your environment and knowing the archaeology of food makes it ever more fascinating!

ive never heard of eating sunflower before . looks good though , im going to have to try it

Why do you Guys never mention a Mediteranean climate?

Sorry, you showed 95F on the screen as you were saying '...def one of the hottest, driest years on our records,' and my head just went, 'What? That's nice and cool.' It's all relative, I guess...

Couldn't get a single pattypan to sprout.

Ah it's "solaneceous!" Now that is a good word. I know it's not just me and others share my delight in finding interesting, not terribly frequently used words. I assume "solaneceous" is pretty common in gardening circles but this was a first for me

So what you’re saying is F okra

Malabar spinach produces a cray amount of seeds that you can sprout during the cooler months.

Love the presentation. Excellente.

Could you please list your favorite peppers?

I love okra and always grow it. I found that I'm very sensitive to the stems, so I must wear long sleeves and gloves when I harvest.

do you have tips for growing in containers in this climate? i don't really have beds but mine are getting cooked in their pots and that might be the problem, having more space for a bed would probably be better to keep them in but they are expensive to set up i feel

I live in an area where it's extremely hot and humid in the summer. For example, it rained last week, and the temperature the next day was 89° with a real feel of 114°. I grew some Candyland tomatoes for the first time, and holy crap they are still THRIVING in full sun even on the hot days. I have one that has been in the raised beds since April, and it's absolutely massive and still producing an insane amount of tiny, super sweet tomats.

Can’t say enough good things about the Kentucky Wonder Bean, in a hot climate. Just tried it by chance, and it just thrived, and has been spitting out beans for almost 2 months now and still going strong…just from a couple plants. Wonderful for those with smaller garden spaces, as just a few plants will make at least one “side dish” portion every few days.

"Nahuatl" is a language, not an ethnicity.

i’ve always wondered are these guys brothers, lovers or just buddies? love all your videos thank you for making them!!❤🌱

Love this list! Growing Malabar spinach for the first time this year. I’d add the loofah too, can’t remember the true name. Young fruits are eaten like zucchini in Indian cooking and if u miss it becomes the sponge. A few years ago when we had 6 weeks of 100 degrees in southern cal, it was my only veggie garden plant that was not just happy, but grew like crazy!!

It gets to 107 degrees where I live

TEPARY SEEDS: Where did you purchase them? Another great vid, as always! Thanks, guys!

Immature sunflower head. That's the secret, eh? My wife roasted a mostly mature sunflower head, and delicious is NOT how I would have described it.