Vegetables that Grow in 100 Degree Summer Heat

The How Do Gardener ^ | July 11, 2022 | The How Do Gardener

[orsonwb]

Wondering what, if anything, will grow in your vegetable garden when summer temperatures soar above 100 degrees? Here are the vegetables that will grow, and thrive, in scorching summer heat.

[orsonwb]

Good grief, it got up to 109° yesterday here in Central Texas. These might grow now, but I'm not sure I want to be out in the yard working in the garden in this heat.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

It is a universe of one: Okra.

[mylife]

chili peppers

[coloradan]

Tomatoes. “Hot house” grown.

(Fun fact, an author wrote that there was a time in history “when one could have grown tomatoes on the north pole” - the author’s way of stating that the globe then was much hotter than it is now, because, the fact that tomatoes really like heat is supposed to be self-evident.)

[Hildy]

109? It was 109 degrees at 9:00am this morning. It’s now 116. Bullhead City, AZ.

[OB1kNOb]

Cactus.

[deks]

Peppers, Purslane, Thyme, Sweet Potato, Winter Squash, Malabar Spinach, Okra, Black Eyed Peas

[NWFree]

I love fried ocra and can’t get enough bring it on 🤪

[Macoozie]

100 ain;t so bad. and It’s not the heat . . .

Block the blazing sun, from the plants and the soil, and keep the plants hydrated (humidity).

Like Don Corleone had with his tomato plants in the back yard, just before his heart attack.

Don’t soak the roots in full sun, that will cook the plant.

Now what to grow in 30 degree weather, that’s a real challenge.

[crusty old prospector]

What was the dewpoint?

[Tennessee Conservative]

“It is a universe of one: Okra.”

Yep. My tomato plants and beans are dying from too many days over 100. My watermelons and okra are doing fine. We’re getting rain but all it does is boil the plants.

The hotter and dryer the better for okra.

[crusty old prospector]

My purple hull peas are still producing but I water them every day.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We grew cowpeas this year for fodder.

It has been mostly hot and dry but they are doing nicely.

[Hildy]

dew point is 41. Yours?

[gundog]

Lots of biennials grow in 30 degree and colder weather. Collards, spinach, beets, chard, turnips....

[Red Badger]

PING!...........................

[crusty old prospector]

About 70.

[milagro]

Here today’s forecasted high is 109.
And I’m in Oregon!

[Blood of Tyrants]

That’s why you get up at dawn and do a little work before it gets blazing hot. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun.

[Pollard]

But it’s a dry heat