John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits Begonia Organic Farm in Pahrump, about 1 hour outside Las Vegas, Nevada where they are beating the odds and growing fruits and vegetables in the Mohave desert.
In this episode, you will learn about the 9-acre farm in Pahrump, Nevada right across the border from California. You will learn their secrets to growing a wide assortment of vegetables all summer long.
You will learn which crops grow in full, direct sun without any shade cloth. You will learn which vegetables can grow in the desert despite the 100+ degree weather.
You will discover how using high tunnels with cooling can create a micro-climate so many crops can thrive even more than growing in the heat.
You will discover some of the easiest crops you can grow in the desert.
You will also learn how you can buy farm-fresh produce if you live in Las Vegas, Henderson, or Pahrump and how this organic farm will deliver to you for just $5.
Finally, John will interview the farmer to learn why she started farming in the Mohave desert, and how she grows food in one of the most extreme climates in the USA.
Jump to the Following Parts of this Episode
00:00 Episode Starts
00:15 Pahrump Nevada Hottest Place in the USA
01:24 You Can Grow Plants Anywhere
02:32 Begonia Farms Introduction
03:26 Former Hemp farm turned Vegetable Farm
05:15 Farm Tour Starts
05:38 Watermelon Patch
05:35 Cantelope Grows Better than Watermelons
07:20 Watering Schedule is Critical to Grow in the Desert
08:34 Growing Squash in the Desert
09:27 Grass as Groundcover?
10:27 Growing Beets and Carrots
11:20 Articholes in July
12:02 Okra is Easy to Grow
13:26 Eggplant is Easy to Grow
14:10 Learn to Eat Seasonally and Locally
14:48 No-Brainer Crop to Grow: Basil
16:11 Onions Grow over the Summer
16:44 Growing Peppers Outdoors
17:16 Should You Grow Tomatoes in the Desert?
18:22 Growing Cucumbers in the Heat
19:24 Growing in Climate Controlled Hoophouses
19:50 Growing Tomatoes and Peppers in the Hoophouse
20:20 Growing Amazing Bell Peppers
21:12 Growing Turmeric
21:50 Growing Ginger
22:08 Romaine lettuce
22:50 Growing Bok Choi
23:16 Cherry Tomatoes
23:42 Growing Beans
23:55 The Difference a Cooled High Tunnel Can Make
24:35 Tomatoes grown indoors
25:07 Desert Grown Curly Kale
25:38 Bunching Onions
27:25 Interview with Farmer Lea Bales
27:34 Why did you start farming in the desert?
27:50 What has been the biggest challenge growing in the desert?
28:58 What are your watering secrets?
29:38 What are the easiest crops to grow?
30:32 What do you do about squash bugs?
31:22 What other veggies grow easily?
31:54 What are your techniques for growing artichokes?
32:40 Are you growing asparagus?
33:49 How do you feed your plants organically?
35:09 Why donโt you have many fruit trees?
36:37 What is your 3-5 Year Goal for the farm?
38:11 How can someone buy your crops?
39:11 Do you offer tours of the farm?
40:12 What farmerโs markets do you sell at?
40:45 What is the minimum order for the $5 delivery?
41:10 What produce is currently available?
42:45 Do you sell veggies in the winter?
43:38 What is your email address?
44:20 Support Your Local Farm
44:40 Any final advice to grow in the desert?
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Jump to the Following Parts of this Episode
00:15 Pahrump Nevada Hottest Place in the USA
01:24 You Can Grow Plants Anywhere
02:32 Begonia Farms Introduction
03:26 Former Hemp farm turned Vegetable Farm
05:15 Farm Tour Starts
05:38 Watermelon Patch
05:35 Cantelope Grows Better than Watermelons
07:20 Watering Schedule is Critical to Grow in the Desert
08:34 Growing Squash in the Desert
09:27 Grass as Groundcover?
10:27 Growing Beets and Carrots
11:20 Articholes in July
12:02 Okra is Easy to Grow
13:26 Eggplant is Easy to Grow
14:10 Learn to Eat Seasonally and Locally
14:48 No-Brainer Crop to Grow: Basil
16:11 Onions Grow over the Summer
16:44 Growing Peppers Outdoors
17:16 Should You Grow Tomatoes in the Desert?
18:22 Growing Cucumbers in the Heat
19:24 Growing in Climate-Controlled Hoophouses
19:50 Growing Tomatoes and Peppers in the Hoophouse
20:20 Growing Amazing Bell Peppers
21:12 Growing Turmeric
21:50 Growing Ginger
22:08 Romaine lettuce
22:50 Growing Bok Choi
23:16 Cherry Tomatoes
23:42 Growing Beans
23:55 The Difference a Cooled High Tunnel Can Make
24:35 Tomatoes grown indoors
25:07 Desert Grown Curly Kale
25:38 Bunching Onions
27:25 Interview with Farmer Lea Bales
27:34 Why did you start farming in the desert?
27:50 What has been the biggest challenge growing in the desert?
28:58 What are your watering secrets?
29:38 What are the easiest crops to grow?
30:32 What do you do about squash bugs?
31:22 What other veggies grow easily?
31:54 What are your techniques for growing artichokes?
32:40 Are you growing asparagus?
33:49 How do you feed your plants organically?
35:09 Why don't you have many fruit trees?
36:37 What is your 3-5 Year Goal for the farm?
38:11 How can someone buy your crops?
39:11 Do you offer tours of the farm?
40:12 What farmer's markets do you sell at?
40:45 What is the minimum order for the $5 delivery?
41:10 What produce is currently available?
42:45 Do you sell veggies in the winter?
43:38 What is your email address?
44:20 Support Your Local Farm
44:40 Any final advice to grow in the desert?
Contact Begonia Farm at begoniafarmsnv@gmail.com
Follow them on Instagram for infrequent updates https://www.instagram.com/begoniafarms/
We have been in the 120โ around here this summer ~ must be why they call it Palm Desert!
Unfortunately, lost so many of my plants so hope to learn something.
Thank you!โฆ great information ๐
We aren't supposed to water after 11 am in Vegas so how do we water during the day? I was fined 675.00 and I have a half acre. Have you seen the ad tiny green monsters? They claim you only have to water once a month in a certain kind of raised bed.
Grass COOLS the surrounding areas and captures pollutants. Also necessary to ground yourself.
Increased CO2 very beneficial to these circumstances, reduces plant stress, water requirements and of course increases productivity.
Beautiful weather
In Australia they are adding clay to sandy soil to help retain water and grow more food. The Clay will last 30 years before needing to be reapplied.
there is an okra variety that gets 7-8 feet tall.
foot-long okras if you let them get big.
i grew them in AL after some retired military guy gave me the seeds.
Water Wall AKA Swamp Cooler
Just last month was out at mesa, Arizona I think for bball tournament and we drove past something like this! Almost thought this was it until I read description.
Theyโd benefit from a Solar System.
The Spanish are known well for eating what is in season reducing them importing it in John๐
Lea was trying to say leaving the plant in sacrificial plant for the bugs hoping not to go onto the plants that arenโt affected.๐
Love your work brother….keep on bringing the good stuff, mad respect!!
COOL vid! (ya cheap pun)
No summer garden is complete without maters. ๐
Mine do excellent in farther N. Commifornia, low inland where we have similar temps, modest to low humidity, no special accommodations, just water once per day when 100F plus, but also few inches of pine needle mulch this time helps a ton. Indeed they don't set new fruit 100 plus but the plants and production are good.
Babylon.
Moroccan terracotta zia pots can keep food cool without electricity …
she could use grow hormones on tree branches to make more trees
We in the south know what will grow and what won't. We also know what will work and won't work. For us, that grows in 100+ heat with humidity. Yes , okra does well in South and hot areas. It's one veggies that some people love and some don't. It's reseed it's self if you let fruit/ pods dry out or not. You will have okra for days if you reseed the fruits/ pod. You definitely need to find a backyard grower in texas that every day grower in 100+ heat with humidity.
Would be interesting to see if the crop harvested in this desert tasted any different to conventionally grown food?
https://youtu.be/FNZM9XrSVRw This guy has a woodchip farm that looks pretty impressive.
Squash bugs in the desert! smh
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Mohave toasty rn
This is interesting.
Burning your arms on the chairs is so funny. This is an awesome video John, thanks.
why dont they build sun shades over the crops.
Not sure im over watering my squash and pumpkins… they get 1 hour a day from a sprinkler… iv got huge vines with lots of pumpkin… i tried to cuf back on water and not water one day and they sagged… my tomatoes and other crops dont like it though… next year i need to seperates the pumpkins and squash from my main garden
I thought hemp ruins soil for veggie/fruit or other plant soils
Brava'!!!… Try putting towels over your watermelons to keep them from splitting. Also.. grow cumfry.. it is great for enriching one's soil. Great job.!!! I'm so proud of you,!!
They are using this technique all over the Middle East and in Africa. It is so amazing to witness what a transformation. I was watching a YouTube channel that was showing old Historical maps of Africa. It was incredible, lakes, rivers, greenery!
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