Top 8 Vegetables You Can Easily Grow in 100+ Degree Hot Summers 

1) Malabar Spinach 1:25 2) Surinam Spinach 3:32 3) NuMex Suave Orange Pepper 5:18 4) Jerusalem Artichoke 7:24 5) Red Hibiscus 8:37 6) Gynura Procumbus "Longevity Spinach" 10:00 7) Tree Collard 11:17 8) Armenian Cucumber 12:48

John, DON'T pull up all of your peppers! Before the frost dig up some of your pepper plants and put in pots. Overwinter them inside and put out again next spring. I do this here in Canada and get a harvest of chillies throughout the winter, and then they fruit quickly again when planted out in spring. They are naturally a perennial in a tropical climate.

Hot Weather Vegetables 1) Malabar Spinach 1:25 White or red stemmed varieties are available. Starts off slow, for the first couple months, it will not grow too big, but before you know it, it will have filled out its entire trellis. Grows purple fruit filled with antioxidants. Spitting the seeds into your garden to replant is preferable. 2) Surinam Spinach 3:32 Similar to the previous plant. However, these should be slaved about a foot apart or so, as they do grow as big. 3) NuMex Suave Orange Pepper 5:18 Not incredibly spicy. Has uniquely peppery aroma. "Damn good!" 4) Jerusalem Artichoke 7:24 Pots dry out very fast. Grows very tall, growing probiotic tubers. 5) Red Hibiscus 8:37 Great color! Nice flavor, zesty or lemony. 6) Gynura Procumbus 10:00 Thrived in greenhouses, but frost caused problems for it. Lowers cholesterol. 7) Tree Collard 11:17 Didn't quite make it; perennial. Thrive in winter and sustain through summer. Plant out of full sun? 8) Armenian Cucumber 12:48 Grew the best of three other cucumbers. Standard and striped varieties. Actually a type of melon. Get slightly sweet when ripe.

No one will ever match this guys enthusiasm and passion.

I love that you show the plant growing in your garden and then talk about your first-hand expierence growing it. Great tutorial.

You didn't mention okra. Okra thrives in the hottest months here in the Arizona desert. Okra also grows tall and leafy providing shade for the other veggies that struggle to survive in the heat.

I identify with this guys spirit! I've watched a bunch of his videos tonight and I just love his energy! Keep making these!

I grew sweet potatoes in Palm Springs and it was mad productive with zero work except watering. Made a brilliant ground cover and delivered endless potatoes.

I second longevity spinach. Amazing plant. So easy to grow and propagate. Zero maintenance. Tasty (mild taste). I share it with friends and neighbors. Just cut a few twigs and put in water. I am in Texas (Huston) and grow it in a pot on the patio.

In No.Cali I grow tomatoes, peppers, sun chokes, okra, green beans, zucchini, cantaloupe, watermelon, yellow squash, grapes, lemons, basil, mint, rosemary, pumpkin and many flowers. It gets up to 118 in the summers. I will have to try these leafy greens I thought were impossible. Those orange peppers look really interesting. I like mild peppers. Thanks for the video. Lots of good info for the beginners like me.😊

For everyone wondering what kind of red hibiscus. Hibiscus Acetosella, (Cranberry Hibiscus) i believe is the name of his plant. Ty so much for this video, i live in texas in the blazing heat so this is very helpful! :)

The armenian cucumber is amazing. It thrives in the heat and pickle wonderfully -just don't let them get too large!

Thanks for the warm weather planting ideas, am going to do a garden next season, live just north of Dallas ... cool stuff

Thanks John, I have learned so much from you. Saw you in Heal Yourself on Amazon videos. From your previous videos I must add... New Zealand spinach, purslane, Egyptian spinich, okra, black eye peas and sweet potatoes. I live in El Paso and these vegetables do great in 100+ degrees. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

i love how you mentioned Armenian cucumbers! they are by far the BEST cucumber breed out there and not enough people grow them!

I love your excitement for plants and gardening. Whenever I am wondering what to do or what to grow I look to your channel 👍I appreciate all of your hard work 👏👏👏👏

I just listened for the first time to a couple of your videos about growing in hot desert areas and I love them. I've moved to Southwest Utah and am struggling so I'm going to try some of your suggestions and I'll get back to you. Thanks very much

I look forward to trying some of the varieties of plants John talked about in this video. It is always fun to grow new things and see how they do. Swiss Chard always does well for me in the summer heat, as does mustard and kale. Mustard is also an easy crop to grow while you are building the soil biology in new beds. Kale seems even better after it over-winters, and has had a touch of frost.

I grew Malibar spinach for the first time in NJ last year and LOVE it. I have all the seeds and cannot wait to plant even more next year!! All because if you, John!

Southern Peas (cowpeas) are another garden addition that seems to tolerate South Florida heat in the summer. Also green beans, lima beans and, of course, okra. Some of the universities down here are experimenting with hot weather tomatoes.

I had Surinam Spinach come up in a pot and now it’s everywhere. We are trying to contain it in one bed. I have been researching it. It’s also called Jewel of Opar and Water spinach. There is an Oxalate warning if you have gout, arthritis or kidney stones. Oxalates dissolve easily if you boil briefly and drain, like you should with Mustard and collard greens. I saw that the root can be cooked in stews like a potato. I boiled, drained then fried some and it was very potatoes like. The jewel like seeds can be made into a flour. The plant is high in omega3 oils and is a cousin to Purselane . It is considered a survival food. Love your videos! You are awesome!

John you are an inspiration. Thanks and God bless you.

Thanks, I’m enjoying your videos! I live in AZ, so I appreciate the ideas for hot weather growing- just ordered some Malabar spinach seeds 😊

I live in the Mohave dessert CA and have great luck with growing squash and cucumbers, lettuce and onions

#9: Magenta Sheen Lambsquarters. I'm here in central Arizona, high planes desert, and summers get hot (114deg) for a few weeks before rainy season comes and winter is mild with a few freezing events. And Magenta Sheen Lambsquarters- the big variety- is so awesome and colorful to plant. There is a native variety by the river but it has much smaller leaves. Leaves and stalks can be used as fodder, and younger leaves can be harvested for salads and smoothies; tasting like spinach. Our friends survived the Great Depression living on these high protein plants that can reseed themselves. Plant now under rowcover (early February) and enjoy all year till November.

Hi John! I'm growing Armenian cucumbers and Mexican Sour gherkin this year! I'm in the Inland Empire in Southern California, so I was very keen on getting plant varieties that would survive our sub-desert climate. Wonderful vlog, thank you so much for all the information!

Finally!!! Thank you. I've been trying to grow in this heat and everything just stops growing until it cools off. Will have try to find the seeds for these.

John is a awesome guy . Ty for teaching me to gardening. I enjoy it a ton.

I love your channel! You are so knowledgeable and have so much energy. I love it! I definitely subscribed and I look forward for putting your tips to use in my desert vegetable garden. 😁

Hi John. I live in Central Florida. I have grown the Armenian cuke here. I didn’t know it was still edible at full maturity. THX. I can’t grow most cukes here. Powdery mildew gets ‘em. There are probably more, but the 2 I always try to grow are the “Sikkim” and the “Southern Delight (hybrid). They always do very well for me. Another hot weather cuke/melon that’s soo expensive in the stores (if you can even find it) is the African Horned Melon. Plant them in March and you’ll get buckets full in November. Mine even self-seeded for 3 years after initial planting. Anyway, i love your channel. Always fun, and informative.

I love when he giggles at himself.

A lot of the plants you listed I miss and used to eat a lot as a kid in Vietnamese cuisines, including artichoke drink..yum!!

This is the real health care,,, food care! I haven’t see the farmers market in 3 years. My okra and bitter melon are doing awesome in my farmacy right now. I never buy herb. Chamomile is the star of the month. Malabar spinach over spinach . My fave green is arugula. Growing year round in my garden. Heaven is on earth😍😍😍

Thank you John for this information. I love watching and listening to you. I love your humor. ♥

I have herbs, lettuce, bell peppers in my aerogarden. They are thriving. I have also successfully transplanted some basil, mint, parsley into soil and they are fine with the sun from the aerogardens. I have them on the side. Now I have a glowpear container and I want to put it outside on my porch and I am trying to figure what to grow out there. We are going into summer here in Florida, so looking for ideas. Thanks for this video. You have given me some ideas. I love your channel.

An Armenian Cucumber I grew a couple years ago grew to 30" and 17 1/2 inches around!

wow....I don't think til now I've ever heard you curse ... made me life when you did..keep up on the videos..love em

Thank you John , this is just the presentation I needed to watch . Today is March 6,2022 and it's supposed to reach 90 F. Today here in zone 9 Florida we're mid west .

So great to have hot weather dark leafy green options, thank you!!!

HAHAH...."Ladies, I'm almost 6' tall!" That made me giggle.

7:08 *smug chuckle* "so grow this one". You had me laughing so hard.

You have such good energy. Always love your videos, bud!

Perfect video for 2020 in Northern Indiana. We've been way above normal temperatures. Thanks

love you're shows! so informative, appreciate it :)

Watched this just before going into my community garden center and found red mama at spinach seeds! Thank you for that tip!

This guy makes me happy when he talks he is so like-able haha

I'm from the South, so our humid summers can be punishing; so, I appreciate this info. Thanks so much for sharing!

Great video, Thanks John.

Wow. I never heard of eating hibiscus! your videos always teach me something!!! God bless!!

Love your videos! So informative! So helpful, trying to start garden in Vegas!

Hi John! It has been 100° + here in Umbria, Italy for weeks now and the veggie seeds I bought here and brought from the States this year are mostly really struggling. I've had to put up shade cloths and tuck many planters under trees to give them some respite. The bitter melon is doing well but has yet to set fruit. It is still July. I don't think we have enough pollinators in the heat and my zucchinis just drop. Next year I would plant many more flowers around the veggies to attract them. Also my tomatoes grow much better in the Bay Area! Here their leaves curl, depending on the type of tomato. Keep on filming!!!

Always a joy watching your videos, Thanks John...Thrive on buddy!

Just subbed....trying to start a drought resistant garden in my backyard! :)

Hi, John! I’m in Las Vegas and just found your great tips on RU-vid. Are you interested in selling some of your cuttings for your best seasonal grows?

Thank you for growing edible hibiscus. I have seeds and want to start it in July. You can cook the leaves with water in microwave and purée. Makes great condiment for fish - thanks West Africa!

Dude you are a trip! I have my greenhouse now, going to grow me some hot mix microgreens!! I love your videos! Thank you!

hi im from surinam and im glad to see that our spinach is been used in other countries.

Thank you so much! I am looking what to grow in the summer heat. I have my squash and cucumbers.growing right now. They are doing great . However, we are about to hit triple digits..So I am looking for what to grow next. I'm going to try to grow your tips: Malabar spinach, more peppers, and the Armenian cucumbers. Your garden looks great! Thank you for sharing!

Great video. My family and I live in Texas. We just recently moved into a home that has no trees in its backyard. It gets full sunlight and is very hot during the summer. So your video was helpful and showing me some plants that may do well in this type of environment.

I had no idea Jewels of Opar was also edible or Surinam Spinach. I'll be watching for it to come up in my yard again this year. Awesome!

I always learn something new with your videos. Thank you!

John you are awesome! L ove what you are doing.

Ok John just started watching and I really enjoy your videos. I had a thought maybe you could do house calls. I’ll go down to the Doctor find out how bad my blood is. Then you come by tell what to grow and what works in my area. Sound good? You be like dog whisperer guy. Only with plants. Honestly I am learning a lot from your videos and picking up some great ideas. Thank you.

Thanks Again For Sharing Your Garden Here On RU-vid

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Hi John, thank you for all your informative videos. I live in Perth Western Australia where the summers are very hot. Your Malabar Spinach plant made me think of sweet potato leaves I have growing. I don't harvest any roots just the leaves which are very mild tasting but really take off and grow all year round. What do you think of these compared to the Malabar Spinach in terms of nutritional value?

I LOVE this video. Thank you so much, from south Florida 100+ degree weather

I have a suggestion for an Episode you could do. How about a Vlog of your food for the day. Take us through your eating habits for a 24hr period. It would give some insight to those of us new to Gardening/Good Nutrition. Growers Love BU

Always nice to see your videos John!

Love your show! I just got some malabar spinach off your site. I’m growing just outside vegas in a town called pahrump. Can’t wait to try these seeds. :)

I took notes . Thank you John .

Thanks for sharing John. Great top 8. Best wishes.

thank you so much for shaving your valuable knowledge!

Good man John at least you show your garden some of these people tell you how to grow vegetables on RU-vid but you don't see there garden you show all bro good for you I am from Ireland we grow more cattle than crops here

I have a question! When you are buying a pepper plant, do you buy it with peppers already on, or do you buy it younger without peppers? Also in AZ, CA, NV, NM, all those hotter states, would you want to keep the peppers outside in the sun, or on the patio in shade?

Buying a house in Florida, so this list is perfect for me. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, I didn't know the Surinam Spinach is edible. I saw it many years ago on top of someone's wall and used to admire its colorful fruits but though it was just some kind of weed. Just found out that it is also called Surinam Purslane. I have been searching for it here and so glad to see it being identified here in your video.

I brought a few Longevity spinach plants inside they are growing like crazy. I was not too successful with Sun chokes (delicious) I will try again plus a few more you recommended. My new hot garden growing nicely thanks to you.. Plus ever glades tomatoes :) thanks again. Try okra hot plant so many Okra per plant.

everytime you say "here before the white man came" i laugh

Love it! Thank you. Love all your episodes.

Great Thanks Mr. John. I have used all 8 vegetables.

I tried to grow orange suaves a few years back, didn't go well in Ohio, was super interested in them as they're suppose to be a low-heat habenero, and since my wife can't handle the heat, but loved the flavor, seemed perfect. Like most peppers, even germinating in Jan and giving them a nice warm place to start out in until May-ish, and putting them outside didn't work, think I had my first flowers showing up right before the frost killed them off (same issue with my bhuts)

I grew that maple leaf hibiscus. The roselle. It got to be too enormous. And I didn’t even know that it was edible! Thanks 😎

Hey you’re the guy that used to review the juicers! Good to see you here. And great advice

Such happy enthusiasm 😊!!

I'm starting straight from scratch, limited budgeting but some room and I think it could make a great video for you.

I've always had luck with peppers, okra, and cucumbers in Texas. Sometimes tomatoes, but the birds like them, so I grow cherry tomatoes, that way we get some before they peck them. We also get tomato hornworms, they're vicious (growl at you), and disgusting (shoot green slime). We tried natural remedies, spraying watered down Dawn on the leaves of the plants, but knocking them off the plants with a stick then smashing them with a brick was the most effective.

Living in SWFL, it's so hard to find any edibles I can grow year-round, and with climate change, it's only getting harder... But this video is such a life-saver, and gives me a lot of hope!!

Thank you for the tips! I'm starting the malabar from seed in my window and plan to order Jerusalem artichoke soon. Will probably grab all these plants because it is hot as Hades in Texas this year and I can't get a lot of anything going no matter how much I toil and water

Interesting...i will have to try some of these

Great info keep up the work m8

"and I was eating the seed pods" had me laughing pretty hard

the description of #3 was my favorite part of the video

Going to try a few of these in central texas clay soil.... love your videos

we eat mabar spinach.. saute the leaves in garlic.. add extra water for soup.. great with fried or grilled fish.. 😊

I'm so happy I stumbled here! You are so awesome! 🎉❤💞

Great video, I've been waiting for your garden update, thanks for sharing.

Have not heard.of any of these plants but you did give me an idea peppers and cucumbers thanks

I accidentally have Surinam Spinach . I've been growing it as a bonsai because the root is interesting. I will plant it in the ground. Thanks for the advice. -Sweating in Florida

That's right don't pull 'em transplant them to pots . I did this with my Cherokee purple tomato had tomatoes in December ! Put them out after frost and I'll have tomatoes in fall , and take em back in for winter. I want to see how long I can keep em going ! Happy gardening y'all !