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this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com.i’ve have another exciting episode for you today. i’m here in las vegas, nevada andbefore i even started growing in las vegas, i did a lot research and did my due diligenceand as a gardener, i want you guys to do your due diligence as well. now what is due diligencewhen it has to do with gardening? well ,that means get yourself educated before you startgardening at least a little bit so that you’ll have a good starting point. growing in thedesert can be particularly hard to grow in, but you know, with the right tips you canbe ultra successful, as i’m gonna actually to share with you guys today. so as i wassaying, one of my first times when i came out to vegas to learn how to grow in the desert,i came to this place right here that we’re

gonna see. now i have a video, probably, idunno, about two or three years ago when i came out and visited leslie doyle, also knownas “the tomato lady.” she’s been gardening here in the desert successfully for many manyyears. so besides just actually showing you all her tomatoes, she has been growing a lotof varieties of different things that i’m gonna be able to give you guys a tour of hergarden today, show you some of the cool things that i learned about and also she’s havinga special class today. so you wanna be sure to get on her email list if you’re not already,if you definitely live in the las vegas area you wanna get on her email list above allelse to get her emails, to know what’s going on, to know what she’s doing and attendone of her classes, be able to come by her

place and see this amazing backyard and evenfront yard garden. so anyway, next let’s go ahead and checkout her front yard and see what’s growing on.now we’re standing at the front entryway to leslie’s place and you can see it’sright here and she has a few fruit trees and actually a few non fruiting trees as wellbut she has fruit trees such as hychia, persimmon, pistachio. i saw almond and a plum and evena meyer lemon tree. so that’s the first tip i wanna give you guys: if you wanna growin the desert, you gotta grow what’s gonna grow well. don’t try to experiment, don’ttry to like, “oh, i wanna grow a pineapple bush in the desert.” well, you know that’sprobably not gonna work unless you have a

climate controlled greenhouse or are growingit inside and have some good ample sunlight. so if you follow what leslie’s doing andwhat she teaches, you will have success. besides all the fruit trees that she has plantedout, she also has vegetables planted in the front yard too. so let’s take a look andsee what’s growing and how she’s doing it.now we’re gonna walk into her front yard and upon entering you’re gonna be greetedby a nice huge tree. it’s a hychea persimmon tree and you can see there: it’s definitelygot some hychea persimmons on it. it’s not quite as loaded up as my persimmon tree incalifornia but it definitely has some fruit on it and looks like it’s been growing wellfor many years nonetheless. and she has her

front yard kinda landscaped out. she has anice curving pathway up to her door here, walkway…and she just has a whole nice largeraised bed that has some nice concrete edging and she’s filled this up with two things. number one, she’s filled it up with herown tomato lady soil. she has been gardening here in the desert for a long time and sheput together her own soil mix that is basically guaranteed to grow and is going to grow reallywell for ya. the other thing that you see that she’s put in her front yard raisedbed are irrigation. so she’s using the netaphim irrigation here and aside from the soil herein las vegas, the most important thing is the water. the soil, you know especially nativesoil, tends to dry out fairly fast and plants

like a constant source of moisture. so youknow besides investing in your soil, you wanna definitely invest in your irrigation and alsoyour water control valves and your timer. definitely get good ones and don’t get thejunk at home deport necessarily. so aside from that, she also has it filledwith many different plants. and you know she’s growing tomatoes a little bit differentlythan most people would or at least conventional gardeners. check this out. blinded by thelight here. and this is the first thing she’s using that’s a little bit different. she’susing this mylar film and you know if you don’t live in the desert or a really hotclimate, you know, forget about the mylar film. this is a specific thing that you needto do only in the desert where it is really

hot. one of the problems in the desert isthat it gets really hot and just this past week it got to be 114 degrees, but check itout: most of her tomato plants look really well with barely any yellow leaves. and thatis because of her reflective mulch and constant watering. she actually waters nine times aday, in the morning, afternoon, and the evening. three times at each session for seven minuteseach. besides the constant watering she’s got the reflective mulch.keeping the soil moist is very important for a reason. because the plants transpire, justlike i’m perspiring right now, and we’ll show you—just like i’m perspiring rightnow. you can see the beads on my forehead. the plants also transpire, but what they dois they pull the nutrients or the pull the

water up from the soil, through their rootsand through, you know, the stems and the leaves of the plants. and that keeps them cool becausethe water underneath the soil is 75 degrees. nice and cool and especially when helped bythis mylar that’s keeping the soil moist and also reflecting off the heat and not heatingup the soil. and if we just look under here, check it out—this is just a mound of tomatoes.now because the weather has been so hot, the tomato plants aren’t necessarily settingnew flowers or fruit right now, but what is happening is, before it got too hot, the tomatoeshave set a lot of fruit and now they are in prime condition for ripening. check it out—thisarea is just totally covered with tomatoes that are yet to be ripe.another thing besides growing tomatoes and

you can see a lot of them here in her frontyard. i mean, this is why she is called the tomato lady and not the asparagus lady. shehas a few other things growing and let’s see here. so it looks like she’s got somesquash growing. she already has gone through one round of squash. in las vegas and in manyother desert climates, you may have a long season. so you could actually get in two cropsof squash. so you could have an early crop, plant them early, and then now you’re gonnaplant new plants just now and they’ll produce for the rest of the season. and there aresome of the squashes here. next let’s head along the walkway and seeif we could find what else is growing on. the other thing that she is doing that isreally nice and that i would encourage everybody

to do is actually label your plants. i havea really good memory and usually remember where i plant what things, but with many differentvarieties and hopefully you guys are growing heirloom varieties with unique and differentnames that you haven’t heard of and maybe will never hear of again if you don’t continueto grow them and save your seeds. she’s actually marking her plants, so she’susing—it’s actually very simple—an ent electrical conduit, which is actually fairlyinexpensive and also some aluminum roof flashing with a paint pen from an arts and crafts store.and this one’s actually clearly labeled: waltham butternut. so i’m assuming thisis a waltham butternut squash and it’s growing. looks like she just planted it for the lateseason and it looks like it’s growing really

well. it even has some fruit on it. furtherdown the pathway and this should be a yellow brick road but it’s not—is another plant.this is actually called a hannah’s choice melon. so as you can see here, once again,this is a later planting so it hasn’t been in for months and months like the tomatoes,but they’re just starting to form some nice little melons to eat later in the season.one of the citrus trees that she has growing here are more like a bush. this thing is likealmost twelve feet tall and just a mass, not even growing like a tree, is a meyer lemon.so if you guys wanna grow some citrus in the desert, you know, forget about oranges—they’reprobably not gonna do too well here. but this improved meyer lemon is probably gonna dogreat, as evidenced by her nice huge bush

and she’s got a lot of little unripe lemons—no,those aren’t limes, those are unripe lemons that are gonna be ripening later up this year.there’s literally hundreds on this entire bush.we’re right next to leslie’s front door and even next to her front door she’s growingmore food in some nice big redwood barrels. not quite wine barrels but pretty close andshe has some sherlin melons here that are growing out of the container, just into thewalkway which looks nice and beautiful. there’s a nice huge melon here.and on this side she’s got a black olive and i believe this is a black olive pepper.never seen such a thing. looks really cool. it’s got really dark leaves, veragated blackand green, and also some nice, dark, rich

black stems. so this is probably some kindof small, some round, black pepper, probably more for ornamental than edible uses, butguess what? all peppers, even if they’re still those “ornamental,” they’re absolutelyedible but there’s probably not enough flesh on it to make it worth it.this is probably the coolest thing in her front yard garden by far. i mean, i’ve seentomatoes grow in vegas, i’ve seen melons grow in vegas, but i’ve never seen thisguy growing in vegas and i actually was wondering how it would do cause i wanna grow it myselfhere in las vegas and i would encourage all my viewers that live in the las vegas andactually even the desert to now start growing it, because guess why: because now we knowthat leslie’s grew it successfully here.

i mean, that’s how we learn: we try to grownew things. if it works, than just keep on doing it and more importantly, share thatwith others. this is called—well, she has it labeled as: mallow bar spinach. more correctly,this is called malobar spinach. and this amazing, succulent, edible leafy green from the tropics.i mean, you could wrap me around it! but don’t tell her i ate it.but this is one amazing vine! this is a tropical edible summer leafy green crop that you cangrow even in the tropics or where it’s hot in the desert and, by the looks of it, it’sdoing amazingly. the leaves are actually quite large, not quite as large as some of the onesi’ve seen in south florida that grow year-round but it looks like, with proper moisture, thisis gonna do amazing here in las vegas and

here’s just one of the nice big succulentleaves. now you could pick these leaves and add them to your salad. i like to just eatem straight up. nice texture. now, due to the heat, they’re not quite as sweet—ormaybe that’s because she doesn’t use rock dust, but she does kelp to add the trace mineralsback in the soil. not quite as some of the ones that i’ve tasted out of my californiagarden and i have found the leafy greens particularly in the summertime with all the heat, theytend to get a little bit more bitter. but nonetheless, i’m gonna be growing some malbarspinach next year and i want to encourage you guys to do that as well, in the desertor wherever you live. the last thing i’m gonna show you guys todayin leslie’s front yard is this tree. now,

besides the almond tree that she has, shealso has this tree, and between almonds and this tree nut, i’d be preferring to growthese guys here in las vegas and i wanna encourage you guys, especially if you guys are a prepper,to grow something like this or a nut crop at your residence. why? it’s very simple.you can grow fruit trees and they’ll produce an amount of food for you in the summer andif you can dehydrate it or use other preservation methods such as canning, you can preservethat into the winter. but another great thing to use in the winter are these guys, are thenuts. these guys are pistachio nuts that are not quite ripe, but when you grow pistachionuts, you’re gonna harvest them and then they’re gonna be preserved naturally bythe sun and then you’ll have a nice concentrated

source of calories and also nutrition forthe winter time. man cannot survive on just vegetables alone. you should also eat somenuts—a handful of nuts every day, in my opinion for optimal health.so if you guys thought her front yard was pretty impressive with all the fruit treesand tomato plants and other crops she’s growing, wait until you guys see her secretgarden in the backyard. she’s even growing even more things, growing vertically, andactually has new plants coming up. once again, in the desert, in las vegas, you have twogrowing season—well, in the summertime anyways. you have the early summer and the late summerand now that the weather’s gotten so hot and it probably fried some of you guys’plants, like your zucchinis, now you can start

your seeds and crops for things like melonsand squashes now and plant them in the garden for another late crop. now i wouldn’t necessarilyrecommend planting things like peppers or tomatoes at this late point unless you’restarting from a plant itself. now let’s head into the back and show you guys what’sgrowing on. one of the first things you’ll notice whenyou enter leslie’s backyard test garden is this big huge pile. now this big huge pileis the tomato lady soil that she uses everywhere in her garden and this is one of the reasonswhy she is getting amazing results here in the desert. she has personally reformulatedthis to work really well in this desert climate and this is probably the best soil in lasvegas to be growing in. now i do need to repent

on one of my previous videos. now i have torepent on one of my previous videos where i set up my garden using some stuff out ofhome depot and after a year of growing, i’ve seen the error in my ways. now, next timei get soil, i’m gonna be getting the tomato lady soil. so if you live anywhere in lasvegas, don’t get the home depot crap people. get this stuff right here. you could get itat various places in the valley, but if you call her directly, you guys are gonna getthe lowest price and the cash discounted price. so maybe at the end of this video we’lleven get to talk to leslie herself to share some of her secrets of growing in the desertfor ya. so aside from the soil that you’re growingin actually that might be more important than

this one, or this one might be more importantthan that one, is this guy. what we’re looking at is an irrigation control box with the irrigationcontrol. so besides the soil where you wanna put your money and you also wanna put yourmoney into a good irrigation system in the desert. you know, over-watering or under-wateringif probably the number one reason why your plants actually don’t make it or why you’repurposefully killing them—because you’re over-watering or under-watering. many peopledon’t understand that plants need water like we need water and if we get too muchwater we can actually choke and if we get too little water, we’ll become dehydratedand actually may have some illnesses because of dehydration. if you’re actually interestedin learning more about how dehydration causes

illnesses in people, i can tell you what bookto get—actually that’s called “the body’s many cries for water” and i don’t knowthe book that corresponds with the plants’ water needs and what it does. i could probablytell you it probably makes brown leaves and it doesn’t fruit well, it doesn’t growwell—things like that. so watering’s very important.now i can tell you what leslie does here. at this present time, she’s watering ninetimes a day. at six, seven, eight, at noon, one, two, and at six, seven, eight, all atpredetermined lengths of time that are gonna do well for her. keep in mind at this pointin time, her plants are in full production. they’re nice and large and they’re gonnaneed more water now than they needed in the

year when they were little small babies. nowhow will you know how much water your plants need? well, i don’t know; i’m not theexpert on what your garden needs. you guys need to learn how to do it. it’s reallysimple. maybe i’ll have a future episode. what you’re gonna do is there is many toolsthat’ll help you do this, the simplest of which is the standard bamboo barbeque skewersand you wanna get those at a wal-mart in the barbeque section. they’re actually fairlylong. you’re gonna stick em in the soil and pullem out. the bamboo will absorb some water. you can put it up to your cheek to see ifit’s wet or not. if your soil’s moist, then you don’t need to water; if your soil’sdry then you need to have a watering cycle.

so what you’re gonna do is basically takea full day, stay at home, and check your soil every hour after you water it in the morningfor maybe five minutes or three minutes or two minutes and that also depends on yourirrigation system that you have and how much the flow rate is and how much the water pressureis. so there’s many different variables. the good thing is if you live in the las vegasarea, you wanna call leslie doyle. she has an irrigation expert that works with her thatcould set you up on the right watering schedule that you need so that you can have optimalgrowth. the next area i wanna show you guys is thislittle area here, it’s under a patio and under a shade cloth and that’s because theseare the baby starts and they’re all in little

containers growing and she has things likecabbage and turnips and broccoli—all kinds of things. these are getting planted out nowfor the fall garden so you know that’s what you guys wanna always focus on is the nextseason. don’t get totally concerned about what’s growing now, but start your plantsin seeds now, even in the middle of the summer when we have 114 degree days—you can doit! just like leslie does to have a successful garden. anyways, next what we’re gonna dois just go over some of the fruit trees. now what we’re gonna do is we’re gonnacover just two of the over a dozen fruit trees she has growing in her back yard and the oneright here is probably the one that i’d recommend for you guys to grow. if you’reonly gonna grow one fruit tree in your backyard

or your frontyard in las vegas. and this isthe pomegranate tree and you can see here it’s just filled to the brim with pomegranates.the reason why i’d recommend you guys grow this is because, number one, it’s reallyeasy. it really is adapted to this kind of climate so you’re not gonna be fightingit. they’re pretty low maintenance; doesn’t get a whole lot of bugs or anything like that.and number three—grows prolifically! this thing is like ten feet by eight feet. i don’tknow if it’s one tree or just a big giant bush. and there’s literally hundreds andhundreds of pomegranates. and the final reason why pomegranates are good to grow is becauseit’s very high in antioxidants, which can be very beneficial for your health.next let’s talk about that next tree and

it’s right behind me. it’s actually quitehuge and let’s go up on it and show you guys the fruit or, actually, the nut that’sgrowing on that tree. now we’re walking up to that almond treeand this thing is just loaded up with all kinds of little fruits, which are actuallycontain the nut inside. and i wanna show you guys today and teach you about almonds. soalmonds grow on the tree. they look like a little small apricot but there’s no edibleflesh inside that humans could eat. maybe microbes eat it in your compost pile or maybesome other insects or bugs or something like that. but that’s not really edible to us;what is edible is the seed so like an apricot—if you crack open the hard pit of an apricot,there’s actually a little seed in there

that you can eat. and it’s high in b17 orleatro, which is reported to be helpful against things like cancer. and the almond here hasthat fruit and these fruits are still green. green almonds—in some cuisines and in somecultures, they actually use the green almonds. i’m not so interested in them at that state;i like i when they’re fully ripe so let’s go ahead and show you guys a fully ripe one.and here it is when the almonds are ripe, they’ll sure as heck let you know. they’llactually open up on the tree and reveal themselves. so what i’m gonna do now is i’m actuallygonna grab a little almond fruit and show you guys more about it.so i just picked a little almond and here it is. this is the little fruit thing itself.this is just like the husk and this is the

nonedible part. on an apricot, this is theflesh we would eat. you open it up to reveal the nut that i have already taken out. sothis is the in-shell almond and if you don’t have an almond tree, then i would encourageyou guys to purchase your almonds in the shell. number one reason why is they’re gonna beless treated. number two is that they’re gonna stay fresher longer. this can be veryimportant if you’re into prepping—you know nuts that have been outta the shell don’ttend to last as long but if they’re in the shell, they’re gonna last much much longer.once you’ve got them in the shell, depending on sometimes the shell is really hard if they’repicked a little too green. this one is completely ripe and when they’re ripe they actuallywanna split on ya—i don’t know if you

guys can see that seam on there. you can almostget in there with your fingers and crack it open to reveal the little nut inside. andthere it is—and there it went! this buggers are slippery actually—just kidding.but anyways, the reason why you wanna start growing your own almonds and your other foodsis because now the government is messing with you guys’ food. did you know that even quote-on-quote“raw” almonds from the bulk bins or if they’re labeled in the store “raw” fromcalifornia, they have to be mandatory treated before you get to eat them. they’re eithertreated with chemicals or steam pasteurization to kill all the harmful bacteria that areon the almonds or all the potentially harmful bacteria on the almonds. and you know, justlike almonds, other foods in the future will

be started to be treated before we get toeat them. this is gonna reduce the nutrition in the food, but also, may cause us to ingestthings that maybe aren’t so healthy, like the chemical treatment of the almonds beforeyou’re eating them. yet another great reason to start growing your food because now youknow what’s in the soil and what’s been spraying on them and you’re gonna get thefreshest highest quality and actually best tasting food ever. i’m gonna go ahead andtry this almond. now that’s a real almond! it’s not completely dry. when they’redry you lose all sense of that bitterness, but actually i like that bitterness flavor.tastes quite nice—more like a spanish almond. that being said, if you do get imported almonds—so,almonds from spain or italy—they’re not

actually treated before selling them to you.only the ones from california and, as you know, california produces most of the almondcrop here in the usa. leslie has a variety of different beds actuallyin her backyard, mostly concrete block beds, but in addition now she has these plasticbeds and one of the things nice about these plastic beds is that they are very assembleand get set up so you can start growing today in your garden. and if you guys are one ofthe viewers that have been watching my videos for a while and are not yet growing in lasvegas, then what you need to do is you need to get on the phone and call leslie. she’llactually get these set up, get the soil put in and even install your irrigation and getyou growing today without even lifting a finger

in the garden. so that’s if you have moremoney than time, but if you have more time than money, then she’ll actually sell youthe kit so you can actually build it yourself. and once again you can buy the soil from herat definitely the lowest price here in the las vegas valley.so now what we’re looking at is basically a small little raised bed. this is just onefoot by two foot, so even if you have a patio in the middle of new york city, if you havea one foot by two foot area, build a small little raised bed, fill it with some soil,and you can grow four watermelons. in this little bed here there’s four watermelonplants called “oh so sweet” and these are just planted really recently and they’regrowing up the trellis and this is a really

easy trellis to make also. this is made outof standard plastic construction fencing. it comes in that really bright obnoxious orangecolor also you can get it in this green color that works perfectly for growing things verticallysuch as beans and, as we can see, even the watermelons.you just saw the watermelon being grown up the trellis and that’s one way you can growwatermelon. if you’ve got a lot of space, you might as well do what leslie is doinghere and just plant the watermelons in the ground and let them sprawl out. now theseare sprawling into her walkways, but that’s alright because she made her walkways extrawide to provide some space for plants to grow into them. and once again this is the oh sosweet watermelon. we got two nice examples

right here and besides being oh-so-sweet,they’re oh-so-large. that’s what my ex-girlfriend used to say about me too, but anyways thesewatermelons can grow up to being like 20 pounds and in leslie’s garden because of the soiland because of the kelp and the minerals she’s adding, they can get up to 40. so once again,i wanna stress the importance to you guys of having good soil and adding the trace minerals,whether you’re using kelp or rock dust or something else to get the minerals back inthe soil, because when the soil has what it needs, the plants are gonna get what theyneed and they’re gonna grow a lot larger. maybe that’s why i’m so big.now i have yet another plant to show you guys in leslie’s amazing garden. now one of thethings i really like about leslie is she constantly

runs tests for organic gardening magazineand rodale (sp?) to find out what is growing well in the desert here. so she publishesher results in actually those magazines and actually here’s one that she tested a fewyears ago and she found out that it really does well in the desert. this one is actuallycalled gretel eggplant and they actually yes have hansel and gretel eggplants. and thereason i like this eggplant—check it out, just below, if you go undo some of the leaveshere, you’ll see that this thing is loaded with nice size little eggplants. and you know,if you take a couple of these, put em in your pocket, and your wife walks up to ya, shemight say something like, “is that an eggplant in your pocket or are you just happy to seeme?” and as a matter of fact, it would be

an eggplant in your pocket.but nonetheless, the reason why i like this eggplant is because it produces a lot of littlesmall eggplants, so whether you’re growing eggplants or peppers or tomatoes, i alwaysencourage you guys, for the biggest yields or most quantity yields that’s edible duringa long period of time, to grow the smallest fruit as possible. in addition, it’s usuallyeasier to manage plants that grow smaller fruit because they’re gonna yield more longer.this is leslie’s main growing area and you can see there’s a multitude of raised beds.i mean, there’s a 10 by 13 foot raised tomato bed behind me here with 67 plants. there’sactually a chicken coop where she has some of her own chickens that she feeds some ofthe food scraps to that produce eggs for her.

she has cucumbers growing, things growingup a string on the trellis over there, some beans…she has all different areas and mostof these areas have edible plants growing. so what we’re gonna do next is we’re actuallygonna show you her namesake—she is called the tomato lady and we’re gonna show yousome of the tomatoes she’s growing this year, how she’s doing it, and how she’sgetting amazing results in the desert. now we’re doing a close-up on her tomatobed and, unlike most people in the country, she’s actually not trellising her tomatoesand it’s actually really important here in las vegas where it’s really hot, youwant have enough foliage where the leaves actually shading out all the tomatoes becausethe tomatoes will get burned if they’re

not shaded out. so that’s another thing—she’sgot these guys, she’s got the shade cloth all over the garden, just spread over thetop, doubled over to protect some of the tomatoes from the scald. this will happen to tomatoesand peppers if you don’t protect them or if you don’t have even leaves covering them.so growing up a trellis? not a good idea in las vegas. as you saw earlier also, the otherthing she does is she uses the reflective mylar on the ground so the mylar increasesthe transpiration of the crops to pull more water up into its plants and keep it coolbut also at the same time bring in more nutrition into the plants as well.so what we’re gonna do now is actually we’re gonna show you the specific varieties thatshe grows in the desert successfully. there

are certain varieties that you actually don’twanna grow in the desert. and the ones here are the ones that are time proven except forone new test variety that she’s growing this year which is another really good ideafor you guys to do. you know, every year, grow the crop that you know are gonna do wellin your specific environment. so if you haven’t been growing yet, ask other gardeners or farmersin your area. ask them what specific varieties grow best in your area and then grow those.then pick a few wild cards or some new varieties to try to see if they grow well. maybe they’llgrow great, maybe they won’t, but at least you have all the crops that you know are gonnado well in your area. so in the las vegas area, the crops that grow well: number one,hawaiian tropic. actually, this year i’m

growing hawaiian tropic that i got from leslieherself. they’re nice and large and they’re really oh-so-sweet and they’re still puttingon fruit, even in this hot weather. next, let’s go around this whole bed and sharesome other varieties with you. another tomato variety that i wanna sharewith you is actually the juliet tomato and this is probably leslie’s favorite tomatoin the whole wide world and actually does quite well here. let me go ahead and pickone for you guys. here it is—it’s a nice little red, roma-style tomato. she says theflavor is absolutely incredible and i’m actually gonna try it and let you guys knowwhat i think. wow! for a roma tomato, it’s actually quite sweet, quit delicious, andif it grows well in vegas, i’m all in.

so the last tomato that i wanna share withyou guys today is the indigo rose tomato and this is actually a tomato that i’m growingthis year and i got one on a wild root stalk and one on a regular root stalk as well. andit looks like her plants are far out-producing mine, but she might have started a littleearlier. this thing is just loaded up with tomatoes and this is looking like it’s actuallyyielding more tomatoes per piece, maybe not per poundage, than the other varieties thati just showed you guys. and the thing that i like about the indigo rose is it actuallyhas a nice purple color when they’re ripe—they’re actually kind of this purple-ish and theystart turning red from the bottom up. and i don’t know if i can see any ripe onesin here, but i had one earlier and it’s

actually quite delicious. so those are thetop three tomatoes that i share with you today to grow in vegas or if you live in a desertclimate. they’re gonna do quite well in the heat if you grow them properly.this is probably my favorite edible leafy green in leslie’s whole backyard and checkit out: it’s totally beautiful. if you saw my episode from about a week or so ago, you’llknow what this stuff is. alright—yell it out loud right now as you’re watching thisvideo! i didn’t hear you! it’s called perslaine. perslaine is an amazing leafy greenand with her soil and the nutrients she’s doing, looks nice, lush and full. looks likeit grows well here in las vegas. it’s quite good too. you can use this stuff in saladsand sandwiches, blend it up in the blender.

it has a little bit of a mucilaginous taste,but it’s really high in omega 3 fatty acids. based on my research, most americans eat adiet too rich in omega 6s and not enough omega 3s. so eat more perslaine to knock your balanceback into a better ratio of higher omega 3s and less omega 6s. omega 3s are anti-inflammatory;omega 6s are inflammatory. i asked leslie why she’s growing it; she said she’s growingit for her chickens. i love this stuff and i told her, hey! maybe you should eat it too!it’d be good for ya! the other reason why i like that she’s growingit like this in this fashion is because this can give you a living ground cover, or a livingmulch. i wanna encourage you guys to grow edible, living mulches. instead of mulchingwith tree bark or leaves or grass, grow something

that’s gonna cover the ground that’s alsogonna be edible. once again, because there’s so much green area here, the sun’s not ableto hit the ground to evaporate the moisture but what the sun is hitting is the leavesthat this plant can grow like a weed that it is and produce more food for you or atminimally, for chickens, to eat. so next we got a special treat for you. we’reactually gonna talk to leslie herself and she’s gonna share three tips with you forhow you can successfully grow in the las vegas desert or actually any desert in the world.now we’re here with leslie doyle herself, the gardener extraordinaire here in the desert.now leslie’s been growing for 60 years of her life and actually she doesn’t even lookthat old so i don’t know how that’s possible.

but she has been successfully gardening for15 years here in the desert and her garden that you guys just saw really shows it. andi’m in admiration and every time i come here i always learn one thing new and if youcan learn one thing new in life every day, in my book, you’re a success, so i’m asuccess today, thanks to leslie. leslie doyle: only one thing?john kohler: i mean, you set the rules—you set the hurdles small so you can easily learnone thing a day and then you’re a success. because everybody should see success everyday and not a failure. so i wanna set you guys up for success and not failure in lifeand also in gardens. so anyways, let’s ask leslie: what are the three top things to doin the desert to have a successful garden.

leslie doyle: you have to have full sun, goodsoil, and ample water. you need the same things that you need in new jersey. it’s true.john kohler: wow. that was really—i mean, things are so simple but we try to make themso complex. you know, we wanna try to shade our plants. oh, it’s so hot! we need shade—sittingin her awning here and it’s almost 100 degrees outside so we’re staying a little bit coolbut you know, some people think, ‘i need to shade my plants’ but that’s not exactlytrue, right leslie? leslie doyle: no, no, no, no! plants are notpeople! plants need full sun. they need full sun so they can sweat like we’re sweatingright now, but the sweat they do is at like the ground temperature, the water temperature,and that makes the whole temperature around

the plants like a micro-climate. and in thecase of the desert, it makes it 75 degrees and in the case of tomatoes in the desertand that’s the perfect temperature for tomatoes, isn’t it? yeah.john kohler: wow and that is one of the reasons why she’ll be harvesting 100 pounds of tomatoesa day and pretty soon several hundred pounds of tomatoes again, right?leslie doyle: that’s right. we harvest 100 pounds a day off of 17 plants. our flush hasjust come in and in a couple weeks, when all our plants are producing, likely hope we’llbe doing six or seven hundred pounds a day and we’ll need help.john kohler: now how long are you gonna be harvesting those for? that’s not gonna lastfor the whole season, is it? i mean, you’re

gonna run out of tomatoes because they’renot still setting because it’s too hot? leslie doyle: oh no they’re setting justfine right now. they’re increasing as a matter of fact, because we choose the rightvarieties and we treat them well. they’ll continue to produce until frost kills them.they’ll slow down a little bit. they’ll be tired and they’ll take a little bit ofa break, but they’ll still produce a few tomatoes and then in fall when it cools off,it’ll be that big problem again. tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes.john kohler: so what do you do with all your tomatoes leslie?leslie doyle: well, we sell them at the farmer’s market. we give them to john, to the neighbors.we pass them out to the poor at certain events.

feed them to the chickens. lots of—we don’tever have to throw a tomato away. john kohler: yeah a tomato is a terrible thingto waste, much like your brain on drugs. seriously. leslie, i know you do a lot of work with organicgardening and actually i wanna share some with my viewers right now. you were the technicalreviewer on this book—the organic gardener’s handbook to natural pest and disease control.leslie doyle: one of them. there were three other phds besides me.john kohler: oh you’re a phd? leslie doyle: no.john kohler: you’re not a phd? leslie doyle: no, i’m a gardener. that’sa little bit better. john kohler: i’m a gardener too, i’m nota phd. but you know i think the best way to

learn is to learn by doing and not necessarilygo to college. leslie doyle: we keep the phds in line.john kohler: that’s it! but yeah so she was a technical reviewer of this book andyou know i get a lot of questions all the time about, ‘john, what do i do about thispest or that disease.’ well, hey! buy the book people! this is the bible that you needto know all the answers for organic gardening and how to treat your plants without use ofchemicals. so also leslie works for organic gardeningmagazine as a writer and also organic test gardening in the desert. and so that’s why,you know, a lot of the plants that she is growing here are test varieties that she’llhave an article about in the organic gardening

magazine. but aside from those resources,probably the most valuable one that she could offer to you guys, especially if you livein the desert, are her books. i personally own both of these books and they are worththeir weight in paper. i mean, there are no other two books that you’ll find that hasall of the information that you specifically need to know to grow in the desert withoutall the fluff. leslie doyle: worth their weight in gold.john kohler: gold? i thought it was paper. leslie doyle: gold. diamonds, girls, diamonds.john kohler: so leslie tell us about your books and why you came up with them and howlong they took to write and all that good stuff.leslie doyle: well the first book i wrote

is out of print. but this is the second andthis is specific directions on how to grow desert tomatoes—tomatoes in the desert.and which is done differently here. if you grow them this way, you’ll have the sameresults i do. see those tomatoes? beautiful—hawaiian tropics.john kohler: 600 pounds a day at the height of the season.leslie doyle: yeah, yeah. and then this here is a planting guide that is developed fromhow i garden here in the desert. specifically, when i put what plants in the ground and ican harvest food every day of the year following my guide, which i wrote the book and thenprinted this up and put it in it so you can do the same thing and right now a lot of peopleare using this in the desert. some people

are using it as a handbook for teaching gardeninghere. there’s no fluff in it, no filler pages of things that aren’t necessary andit’s like $13, i mean, it’s cheap. john kohler: so this would be good for peoplein the las vegas or in the desert southwest, right? arizona, new mexico, nevada here, southnevada…or even in other countries in the desert right?leslie doyle: yep. any place that is hot and dry. desert in colorado, new mexico, texas—gota lot of customers in texas. john kohler: so leslie if someone wants toget a hold of you to purchase your books, how would they do that?leslie doyle: you can phone me. area code 702-490-5217. that will ring you here at sweettomato test garden. you can send me an email

to tomatotomato@cox.net. simple enough. there’sno ‘e’ at the end of tomato. and i’ll write you back! and if you wanna buy my books,this one is $10 and the other one is $13. i’ll send you a paypal invoice—just tellme and you’ll get the invoice and when you pay it i’ll mail you the book.john kohler: wow leslie, that’s great! so i guess the last thing that i wanna mentionis that you just started a brand new youtube channel to share all your desert gardeningsecrets with the world. leslie doyle: yes and it’s going to be verydifficult for you to find me on youtube because john’s videos of me come up first. so ifyou send me an email to tomatotomato, i’ll send you the link. hopefully you can findme as leslie doyle, sweet tomato test garden,

on youtube. you might have to type in allthose words. john kohler: if you just type in leslie doyle,hers will be the second video that comes up. or the second result.leslie doyle: and there’s also a bull rider named leslie doyle so, have a good time. heenjoyed his time visiting me here today and i enjoyed having him too. we’re just finishingup tomato fest in las vegas here at the sweet tomato test garden and it’s been a hoot.i wish you could have been here. john kohler: should have been here—oh andalso! join her email list! email her and get on her email list if you live in the las vegasarea or even in any desert climate. she has a lot of good information on growing in thedesert and next time she has an event here,

you definitely wanna come out. it’s an amazingplace to visit and there’s always something to learn. i’ve had a great time and hopefullyyou guys did too and you can now be harvesting 600 pounds of tomatoes a day if you do itlike leslie does. once again my name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com! we’llsee you next time! leslie doyle: and i’m leslie doyle at thesweet tomato test garden. nice to see you! john kohler: we’ll see you next time andkeep on growing. leslie doyle: bye!john kohler: alright we’re here in las vegas with the gardener extraordinaire—oh! shekissed me! that’s gonna be an outtake actually. leslie doyle: he’s cute girls, he’s cute.don’t let him get away.

john kohler: thank you! that’s going in!leslie doyle: he keeps saying that. john doyle: it is going in. this is in. markmy words.