John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits the Tomato Lady in Las Vegas, Nevada who has been growing food in the desert for 30 years to show you her winter garden and give you her tips for growing vegetables in the Mohave desert.
In this episode, you will get a tour of Leslie’s home garden where she has been growing food for 30 years in the desert. You will learn why winter gardening is the best time to grow food in the desert and learn about the best fruits and vegetables you can grow in the winter in Las Vegas.
You will learn the specific cultivars of vegetables that Leslie is growing as well as when they were planted. You will learn about all kinds of winter leafy green vegetables that you can grow in your garden as well as some of the best fruit trees to grow in Las Vegas.
Finally, John will interview Leslie and you will learn more about her gardening books, as well as the private vegetable gardening classes you can take from here so you too can learn how to grow vegetables in Las Vegas.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:29 40-Foot Live Christmas Tree!
02:19 Front Yard with Fruit Trees & Container Gardening
03:22 Best Citrus Tree to Grow in Las Vegas
04:08 Olives Grow Easily in Las Vegas
05:02 Tour of Backyard Garden Starts
06:22 Raised Beds – Eat The Food You Grow
07:11 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Winter
09:43 Eat Your Brassica Leaves, Flowers, Stems, and Pods
12:07 Growing Kale, Brocolli, Collards in the Winter
12:50 Use Venitian Blinds to Label your plants
13:50 Growing Lettuce in the Winter
16:04 Plastic Raised Beds – Winter Vegetables
16:55 Grow Garlic in the Winter in the Desert
17:37 Low Maintenance Fruit Tree in Vegas: Pomegranate
18:18 Rooting Your Fruit Tree Cuttings
19:14 10-Year-old Minature Peach Trees
20:21 Don’t Harvest Your Grapefruits too Early
21:31 Short-Term Vacation Rentals in Leslie’s Garden
22:42 Best Vegetable Seeds You Can Grow in Las Vegas
24:54 Interview with Leslie Doyle the Tomato Lady
25:35 Leslie Books on How to Garden in Las Vegas
26:25 Why did you start growing vegetables in Las Vegas?
27:02 What are Your Secrets for Growing In Vegas?
29:40 What are your winter gardening tips?
32:12 How to get a private Class from the Tomato Lady
36:42 How can someone stay in Garden on Your Vacation in Las vegas
38:18 How You can Connect with Leslie
39:26 Do this to be Successful Gardening in Las Vegas
After watching this episode, you will learn what you can grow in your Las Vegas winter vegetable garden. You will also learn many tips about growing food in Las Vegas and learn how you can take private gardening classes in Las Vegas so you can learn how to grow fruits and vegetables in Las Vegas.
Referenced/Related Episodes:
She Grows over 600 pounds of Tomatoes a day (from 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1gHbsv7DrQ
Original Episode with Leslie filmed in 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYv7xkc1DsY
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Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:29 40-Foot Live Christmas Tree!
02:19 Front Yard with Fruit Trees & Container Gardening
03:22 Best Citrus Tree to Grow in Las Vegas
04:08 Olives Grow Easily in Las Vegas
05:02 Tour of Backyard Garden Starts
06:22 Raised Beds – Eat The Food You Grow
07:11 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Winter
09:43 Eat Your Brassica Leaves, Flowers, Stems, and Pods
12:07 Growing Kale, Brocolli, Collards in the Winter
12:50 Use Venitian Blinds to Label your plants
13:50 Growing Lettuce in the Winter
16:04 Plastic Raised Beds – Winter Vegetables
16:55 Grow Garlic in the Winter in the Desert
17:37 Low Maintenance Fruit Tree in Vegas: Pomegranate
18:18 Rooting Your Fruit Tree Cuttings
19:14 10-Year-old Minature Peach Trees
20:21 Don't Harvest Your Grapefruits too Early
21:31 Short-Term Vacation Rentals in Leslie's Garden
22:42 Best Vegetable Seeds You Can Grow in Las Vegas
24:54 Interview with Leslie Doyle the Tomato Lady
25:35 Leslie Books on How to Garden in Las Vegas
26:25 Why did you start growing vegetables in Las Vegas?
27:02 What are Your Secrets for Growing In Vegas?
29:40 What are your winter gardening tips?
32:12 How to get a private Class from the Tomato Lady
36:42 How can someone stay in Garden on Your Vacation in Las vegas
38:18 How You can Connect with Leslie
39:26 Do this to be Successful Gardening in Las Vegas
Connect with Leslie- https://sweettomatotestgarden.com/ email: tomatotomato@cox.net phone: 702-472-3258
This guy could talk the balls off of a rhino lol
I absolutely despise canned Olives
Wow, great video. Leslie is very interesting to watch, so calm and reassuring. ❤ I live in tucson so the climate is similar.
Amazing garden. I’d love to know what Leslie does with all those lemons!
Wish I lived in Vegas. Wind chill 15 below here today!
Great video John except you're cold there in Vegas? Try coming to the northeastern US in winter. Near zero today! Keep up the good work John!
It’s against the law to plant fruiting olive trees in Clark county
CHRISTMAS is Pagan not Christian it was celebratied long before Jesus Christ was even born. Jesus wasn't born in December nor does the Bible say to celebrate it. It says on COLOSSIANS 2:8 to not participate in man's Traditions. It is a SIN! God said.
Keep my SABBATH HOLY
PASSOVER
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS 🙏
XMAS IS SATURNALIA CELEBRATION BIRTH OF NIMROD AND TAMUZ NOT JESUS. 🌟 on the 🌲 is Lucifer the light bearer
This is slightly off topic but I live in a desert too and we have so many cutter bees during the spring planting season that you could reach out in the air and grab handfuls of them. How can you prevent cutter bees from destroying plants before the plants flower? We have so many cutter bees here that when I put out my starts or they start sprouting, the bees absolutely demolish the plants in less than 72 hours. I want them around to pollinate but they destroy everything I try to plant before it's big enough to flower or big enough to take the damage. I need a large garden to provide for my family and animals and I'm hoping there's some ways to stop them early in the season until the garden is big enough to handle the damage that doesn't include netting because that would be immensely expensive and I can't afford it. I also can't afford to lose my entire garden before it reaches a foot high. I don't want to use pesticides at all but I absolutely need this garden this year to make ends meet and keep providing for my family.
???? Thanks for the tour! Does she use any shade cloth?
Oh no, not Leslie. Is she still selling her "organic" soil with sewage sludge?
Leslie is a giant fraud as fully documented here:
https://highdesertpermaculture.org/2010/08/23/toxic-sewage-sludge-biosolids-sold-with-garden-soil-by-gro-well-and-organic-gardening-test-gardener-leslie-doyle/
I just looked up John's channel because I recommended it to someone and thought I'd check a couple new videos while cooking.
Am very disappointed, must UNrecommend now 🙁
Do a vid on nematodes…I can't grow sheet except for tropical plants.
Thanks for this. I was planning to grow the greens in the Central Valley in Sept of '22, but the temps were still triples. So I didn't do it. I welcome your thoughts.
Leslie seems amazing!
What a lovely lady! If I lived in Vegas I'd be visiting Leslie often. Thank you John
I am retiring to Las Vegas with my family. I am a biologist and gardener. I enjoy the video and hope to stay in Leslie's rental place when I travel there to find a property. any help to find this rental as a verified Arabnb vacationer. thank you! thank Leslie!
now I know I can take her lessons and see her garden during my visits
Your HAT😂
Great info. Thank you for sharing the information about Leslie. She seems amazing. I would love to meet her and learn. I wonder if growing in Las Vegas is similar to Phoenix Az, do you know?
Thanks!
❤ she has a cute 🐶