Comments on: What garden herbs grow best in terribly hot weather?

By: maria teresa

maria teresa — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:02:20 +0000

I live in Los Mochis,where Cancer Tropic is,here is really to have your dream at your hand.Hve you been here? My difficulty to answer now, are the names in english of the plants,herbs and flowers.If you give me time I can get for you the scientific names. Here we have different clima from Texas,I know Houston and Nassau Bay clima. Is your clima like dessert type?.I suggest you to go by the web visiting our lands of Sinaloa full of the green of corn,caña de azucar,bean,sorgo,mango,naranja,it looks like a green sea…enjoy and wait for my response.We have a bothanic park here that is a terrific place!

By: Delaney Nelson

Delaney Nelson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:24:00 +0000

If you want to grow herbs that don’t grow well in our long, hot days, provide plants with partial or filtered afternoon shade. Space herb plants far enough apart so they get good air circulation and light. Crowded plants do not dry quickly and may develop disease problems. Plants particularly susceptible are gray plants with fuzzy, pubescent leaves, such as lamb’s ear, artemisia, sages, and others.
I also found a good resource for Herb Growing. Have a look, it may be of some help.

By: Christian M

Christian M — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:26:52 +0000

While I have lived in New Mexico and Arizona for many years I always lived at higher elevations where the temps were moderate. We would always got a few weeks of over a hundred but not the months on end of Phoenix or Albuquerque.

I had good luck always with rosemary and sage, mints and chives. A well planned herb garden does not have to take up a lot of space and can be shaded with a small arbor and shade cloth that blocks forty percent of the sun or less. And don’t top water them in the heat of the day. Some herbs like to be on the dry side and some require a moist soil so I’d try about anything and look up each one you plan to try for specifics of their requirements. It’s all on line me thinks.

Namaste’

By: OURScott

OURScott — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:15:26 +0000

Although I’m in Z4 N.Dak, I’m familiar with the problem. We too have brutally hot, dry and windy summers, plus our days are longer. A 5% humidity, 110 degree day with 35-40 mph sustained winds will burn the leaves off plants.
Lucky most herbs like heat and sun and are easy on the water but they **** wind.
I get mine out of the wind, with or without shade and give them a little bit more than little bit of water they need.

RScott