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🗓️ 18 May 2020
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Summer is here, and with it comes the sun and heat. Here are some of my favorite heat-loving crops to think about this season.
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
0:03.0 | What's going on everyone? Summer is almost here. Can you feel it? Can you smell it? |
0:17.9 | Because I certainly can. Then again I live in San Diego, so I feel like it's always it's always summer here but for all |
0:24.6 | of us it is almost summertime and so I thought I would cover today some rapid fire |
0:29.4 | crops that do well in the heat maybe ones ones that you haven't tried. So give these ones a try. |
0:35.5 | Now, Okra is number one and the reason why it's number one is because it's such a weird crop. The leaves look very odd for an edible crop, at least in my opinion, |
0:48.4 | so many different pieces to the leaves. They're very fragmented in their appearance but okra itself is just an odd |
0:56.7 | plant but it's a very quick grower and it absolutely loves the heat it will blow up in the heat. Now the thing that I've done with it in the |
1:05.9 | kitchen is typically fried okra. They have a bit of a slimy seed pod and I don't |
1:12.3 | really I mean I'm not the best chef right so I don't really know the best way to prepare it |
1:16.7 | but fried okra seems to be the way now again these are just my picks and there's an unlimited amount of heat-loving crops. |
1:25.0 | Our next one is going to be a yard-long bean. |
1:28.5 | I've got these planned for my three sisters planting, which is squash corn and and beans and the reason why I chose |
1:34.3 | the yard longs is because unlike beans their flowers won't drop in extreme heat in |
1:41.2 | fact they seem to thrive and you also get a really unique |
1:44.2 | bean I mean the name suggests it right yard long these are two feet or longer as a |
1:48.8 | single bean very interesting crop that if you've got the space I do recommend giving that a try. |
1:55.7 | Next is sweet potatoes. I bet you thought I was going to say potatoes but in fact |
2:00.4 | sweet potatoes are a staple of the South, which have those long, hot, humid summers, |
2:06.3 | and sweet potatoes absolutely love it. |
2:08.2 | Now the beauty of the sweet potatoes, you can also eat the foliage. |
2:12.0 | Now, if you want that that you certainly can. I prefer to just let the |
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