This is summer Predictive There should be another scooter with record -breaking temperature across the US starting in June. While traditional summer crops require heat, which is why we wait for summer, to grow them, excessive heat waves or summer domes are completely a different thing.
Plants have a series of behavior under heat pressure that they will display. They can Wilt, which seems to be due to water stress. The leaves will drop, and the solution does not necessarily do not have much water, but let the plant ride the wave with some shade, if you can provide it. Plants can bolt, which occurs when they close growing leaves or fruits and instead, thinking that they are at the end of their life, send a flower, which will quickly go to the seed. Once this flower is present, the plant focuses all its energy, the fruits and leaves will become bitter. Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can “solve”, in addition to pulling and starting the plant.
And the heat is not just a danger: fruits and leaves can also experience flax scalled, which is basically an sunny colloom. You can see these spots on your tomato and pumpkin, which appear white, instead of red they like them on human skin. In most cases, the plants will survive sunburn, but it puts the plant in excess stress and makes it more susceptible to other garden hazards such as the disease.
The best solution is to choose plants that will tolerate heat spikes, and then provide some support by watering your plants equally, when you can do in the afternoon sun, and do not plant, transplantation or fertilization during these spikes, all of which are stressful for plants.
Greens that will avoid a heat spike
While there are bolt-resistant letters that you can develop, a true heat dome is simply too much stress, and most of the lettuce will go into seeds. For heat resistant greens, consider KailWhich is harmful in both excessive cold and heat. Koards known for the greens produced by them are also going to avoid a summer wave without Willing, which is why they are popular in the south. The crop you have not heard yet is Malabar PalakWhile traditional spring is a spring and shoulder season crop and will not do good even in an average summer, Malabar (which is not really related to real foster) is a winning plant from India that tastes remarkably equally and has become popular for its flexibility.
Ukra and corn are at home in summer
Keeping in mind the crops that have been popular in geographicals, which experience more heat, which we are used have a good strategy to find vegetables that will avoid excessive temperature. Okra Ethiopia is from, so heat resistance is part of the plant DNA. Okra sometimes gets a bad rap to be diluted in dishes, but I urge you to consider growing it. There are two varieties of Okra: I only recommend planting the spinless variety. “Spine” are spikes that can make Okra painful and harvest.
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Corn can be a resource hog in your garden, which requires a lot of additional nitrogen to be productive, but it is also highly tolerant. The corn can survive at a temperature above 110 degrees and still produces crops firmly, so until those temperature spikes are increased. A true summer crop, corn requires a 70 degree season to grow, which is why you wait to plant corn seeds by June.
Plants
To be fair, most people don’t eat Ridge gourd (Although you can); They know it instead LoofahA sponge -like material is used in “natural” scrubbing. But in fact, luffa is a form of vining squash, which will grow prolificly, prefer the sun, and will grow in summer for a long time. When the fruit is allowed to dry on the vine, the meat can be snatched away, leaving the lafa behind, which looks fine like the lofah you purchased, and can be used immediately.
There are a lot of pole beans (beans that climb, unlike Bush Beans, who did not do) that were born in warm climate and would do well in a warm wave. Tapri beansFor example: These legumes are native to the South -West US and Mexico, and will spend the summer climbing and production pods. Before the rain starts, crop them in the fall, and store them as dry beans.
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Yardallong beans One is close to a green bean. Still a bean, they can produce beans that are longer than a foot, as their name mentions. These summer stars prefer less water, and they will support anywhere like a trailis.
Soybean requires heat
While not a bean, but a shrub bean, Soybean If you have received enough heat then there is an easy crop to grow. These will produce limited amounts of pods per plant per plant, so they need to grow in groups, but they need almost no support other than water. Cut the pods and eat the legumes fresh, as you will do in your favorite Japanese restaurant, or will dry them to make soy milk or tofu.
Squash and melons love heat
There are two types of squash: summer and winter. summer squash Zucini, Yellow squash and crops such as pumpkin include crops. winter squash Crops such as acorn squash, butter, spaghetti and others are included. Both types of squash are traditionally grown in summer, and both are surprisingly flexible in summer. When you can experience sunburn on some fruits, the squash is famous for providing shade due to large leaves, and they will not only take care of most fruits, will preserve it, but will also save the nearby plants.
As long as you keep your own Kharonon In addition to your cucumbers and squash, so that they do not cross pollination, your winner melons are likely to avoid a heat wave with the same cavet as squash: look for fruits that exposes it and cover it with sunburn, but the plant will mostly take care of it on its own.
Sweet potatoes are built for high temples
Originally from Polynesia, drunker There are an excellent crop for the start of gardeners. They are easy to cultivate any sweet potato (called slips) that you bring home from the store. Once applied, they produce up-up-land-land vines that are showy with flowers, while potatoes under the ground grow more than 120 days. These plants not only tolerate, but also thrive in summer.
