My SECRET WEAPON For Gardening In HEAT WAVES And Drought
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In this video, I share my secret weapon for gardening in extreme heat and drought during heat waves and persistent hot weather! Hot weather and strong solar UV index can quickly damage plants and destroy your garden. This amazing garden tool can dramatically reduce or even eliminate garden heat stress and sun damage!
Climates with prolonged high heat and strong sunshine can quickly devastate gardens by burning foliage and killing flowers. Even brief heat waves can cause irreversible damage to your plants. The extreme evaporation caused by hot, sunny weather can dry out soil quickly, causing high water demand. Even mulching and drip irrigation may not be enough. Shade cloths are the answer! Available in various sizes and shade percentages, using shade cloth can protect foliage and flowers from sun and dramatically reduce evaporation so you can water less. In addition, using shade tarp can also protect garden vegetables and fruits from bird damage, insect damage and rain damage, too!
I recommend using a woven shade tarp with grommeted edges. These shade tarps are strong, effective and will last many years.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Gardening In Heat Waves
0:39 How Sun Damages Plants
1:35 My Secret Weapon
4:18 Shade Cloth Results
5:54 Other Shade Cloth Uses And Benefits
8:22 How To Build A Shade Tunnel
11:59 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to use shade cloth in the garden, need tips for gardening in hot weather or gardening in a heat wave, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Gardening In Heat Waves
0:39 How Sun Damages Plants
1:35 My Secret Weapon
4:18 Shade Cloth Results
5:54 Other Shade Cloth Uses And Benefits
8:22 How To Build A Shade Tunnel
11:59 Adventures With Dale
That high tunnel is awesome! QUESTION: during the rainy season, when you have torrential downpours for extended periods of time, did you have any problems with water pooling in your shade cloth before it had a chance to drain through? If it did pool, did the weight of the rain water that had accumulated in the pockets of the shade cloth rip any of the shade cloth? I look forward to your reply. I live in the Northeast and we also get torrential rains.
@@CuriousinNY I don't know how much it would pool up in heavy rain, it's designed to let water pass through. Your main source of wear will probably be uv from sunlight. It would probably be a good idea to have it set up where you can easily remove it, because a strong wind during a storm could take it. Considering you live in the northeast, you probably don't need a shade cloth except for an occasional abnormally hot, dry period in summer, or if you wanted to grow things that like it cooler, like lettuce or cabbage, etc. If you have plants that look like they wilt on a hot sunny day, but look great on a cloudy one, shade cloth could help. If you make a hoop structure like MG's, try to get an idea of how the wind travels through that area, and set the structure so that wind can blow down the tunnel. Good air circulation is essential to help prevent fungal issues.
Might be a new method to plant fruit tree root rot - I made two holes- one deeper fill with rocks and the other one i plant a tree hoping the water will drain to the deeper hole when I water one
If you are covering plants with shade cloth or insect cloth, how do bees get in to pollinate?
@@christineedwards4865 thanks. This year was cooler and very rainy. But have had summers where most days are in the 90s and the feel like would be low 100s. These up and down years seem to run in cycles.
I absolutely love how the vid when he got Dale was "the wife wanted a dog but I'm allergic so we compromised and got a dog" and yet Dale is the highlight of every video and clearly the highlight of homeboys day 😊
It takes a lot of baths and undercoat removal with a Furminator 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener 😆😆🤪
I am allergic also but we researched and found a hypoallergenic breed and have loved our little dog ever since. 🥰 we opted for a Bichon Frise and she is a small spoiled, adorable little thing. 😂☺️ She’s 8 years old now.
Another advantage of having a shade cloth over your garden is that the lower temperatures are also great for the gardener making garden tasks so much more comfortable even during the heat of the day
I live in No. CA. Last summer was brutal HOT. My garden just shriveled and died. I built a shade structure over winter and so far this summer my plants are looking very good. Shade cloth gardening is amazing.
It is! It also works to prevent early bud break against late frost if your fruit trees tend to bud early.
@@elainroles7217I strongly doubt it. It is completely cool to the touch and conducts no heat. I’ve never seen white shade cloth. It is almost always black. If it mattered, it would be the norm. The standard black color is fine.
@@TheMillennialGardenerI think it’s the way for future harvests. Our local winery lost almost 109% of most grapes due to early bud break. We had a freak frost and everything was so advanced they fried and really set them back. It’s just to hot.
@@elainroles7217No as I tried for our patio. It was a tighter weave, but the light was so bright also we couldn’t stand it and returned it. Much cooler under black loose weave.
@@TheMillennialGardenerthey have silver in loose weave, but we tried the close weave white and it was so bright and Hot we returned it.
I totally agree about the shade cloth use. I use a 50% shade cloth over my tomato garden and it makes a huge difference where I live in SoCal with temps above 100 degrees during the summer months. It protects the flowers so that they can grow to be tomatoes, and also protects the tomatoes from sunburn. I would definitely recommend using shade cloth. Thanks for your video
Another great video, so thanks again! I wanted to offer a little tip regarding the insects.
I put up a few bug zappers near my garden to try to attract the pests away. Accidentally, I left a water bucket with soapy water about 20 feet from one of the zappers it was left over water from washing my car. I was shocked to see how many insects were dead in the bucket the next morning. I experimented by putting small containers water with a little dish soap around my garage, garden, and deck. You would not believe the number and types of bugs I am removing from my property nightly. It is most likely like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean, however, I did notice the myriad of little gnats that were flying between my car and truck every day and night, especially at dusk, were reduced dramatically. It really works well in South Eastern Pa. Try it and let me know if it works for you.
Makes sense, since most garden centers have shade cloths over much of their plants.
That's true! Full sun can take its toll since almost nothing we plant is native to where we live.
This N. TX intense heat has fried most of my garden plants, except for my sugar baby watermelons. If I try a garden again for fall I am definitely going to look into getting shade cloths. I have only gotten 4 tomatoes and 3 banana peppers to date. None of my squash produced, cukes flowered and dropped all the buds, potatoes got beautiful tops, and 1 baseball sized potato from 15 plants. I gardened for many years in Maine, successfully. This TX weather has proven to be an enigma for my gardening efforts 😢. This is the 2nd year in a row my garden didn’t work out. Maybe I need to find another hobby 🤪
I couldn’t agree with you more about using a shade cloth. Here in middle Tennessee it’s brutally hot in mid summer. It’s so hard on all the garden plants. I bought 2 large 40% cloths and my husband built large wooden structures to support the cloths. Wow what a huge huge difference it’s made on everything. So worth the investment for so many reasons like you said!
Hot, dry, but humid here in south middle TN. My sweet potatoes and sunflowers are loving their life right now, but my lettuces and herbs are in sad shape. I’m in full, all day sun - the shade clothes sound like the way to go, and deter insects as well.
Yes Karen, I can’t believe how much of a difference it has made in my garden. Sure wish I had bought them years ago. You will be amazed and wonder how you grew anything all this time. It’s the perfect answer to so many issues.
I'm in Nicaragua and just finished my greenhouse, which is just a wooden frame wrapped in shade cloth. 😂 It's working beautifully! It's cooler and keeps out lots of bugs, too.
@@psucarrierae wow what a fabulous idea! Thanks for sharing…
90’s and 100’s here in Texas. I’m going to have to find a job just to pay my water bill! I have everything well mulched with straw, but I still have to water.
This will pay for itself in a season, and you'll be able to use it for many years. Mine are 3 years old. I even use mine in the winter to prevent early bud break on my fruit trees to protect against last frosts.
This is my first year I’ve ever had a vegetable garden. I’m 63 now, and I don’t know how many more years I can manage..lol
I plan on buying the shade cloth you mentioned, but I sure hate to loose any rain that we get.
I also haven’t found the link for them yet.
I just found the link. Thank you, and thanks for the video. 😊
I'm with u on the heat here in TX. I am close to the coast, so the heat index is high. I need to cover mine as well
Florida weather has been horrible this year too! Good luck with your garden this summer!
The last week has been absolutely horrible. Just nasty.
And Texas
We’ve had a week of 100+ temps here in S TX with at least another week to go. I’ve go 70% shade cloth over my garden and it’s the only thing saving my tomatoes and comfrey. I still have blossoms and fruit so fingers crossed it’ll work for the next week as well. Next year I’m planning something a little more permanent as the current set up is getting torn up around the top of my trellis.
That’s good to hear. You guys are getting blasted with heat and we are getting drowned with rain. Weather always averages out over a wide area, but it seems the individual points get extremes.
Hey fellow Texan. It's 105 in Central Texas.
I’m here for my fellow Texans. Triple digits in San Antonio. Ugh😮
@@myurbangarden7695 week ago we had 103* in the shade on 2 different sensors in WI. Extreme drought and abnormally hot.
Judge Judy must be so proud of you!
Excellent video. This is an area that's not covered enough in gardening. The surface temperature of exposed bedding or mulch can be 30 to 40 degrees higher than ambient. A shade cloth can lower that temperature equal to the percent of light that it blocks. Using an inferred thermometer, I noticed my mulch reaching 135 degrees the other day with an 85-degree ambient outside, full sun. I was very surprised. This has really helped with the evaporation rate of water from my 24'' deep beds as well. I've done a lot of with shade clothes this year with excellent results. Thanks for posting!
We’ve been using shade cloth in WI for several years and I just discovered we Can grow radishes under the shade! It’s been so hot and extremely dry-We need Rain Bad!
It wasn't too late a recommendation for Perth, Australia! I followed the advice in your earlier video, covered most of my small garden in a shadecloth as you recommended, the plants did so much better and the entire garden was dramatically cooler. It also had the indirect benefit that I actually went out there and inspected the plants, even on the hottest days, rather than avoid it. That kind of light shadecloth is very easy to hang from any solid places that hooks can be hung from. Worked a treat. Thanks for the advice.
I love that it is cooler to garden. Huge plus!
I also experimented with 40% black shade cloth last summer and it definitely worked for me too. The previous year I had a lot of heat damage on my tomato plants, but under the shade cloth the plants were thriving. But I had two problems with the shade cloth: 1) the plants and fruits grew and ripened slower, and 2) flavour was negatively impacted (my tomatoes turned out quite acidic, lacking in their normal sweetness). This makes sense because the shade cloth is blocking 40% of the UV light.
So my advice is to put the shade cloth up in a way that makes it easy to put it on and remove it. Because not every day will have damaging temperatures, and usually the mornings do not have damaging temperatures either (and actually have some of the best quality sunlight). So ideally you only want that shade cloth up to protect your plants when the temperatures reach damaging levels (in the afternoon on hot days).
Also, remember that the insect netting block even more UV rays, so if you use both it will be more like 50-60% shading effect.
Yes, my wish list is to design like a shower curtain slide. Tomatoes need cooling, but it can affect flavor.
@@dustyflats3832 Yes, any design that allows you to easily pull or roll it on and off. Because last year I tied it to my structure, so I had to leave it on the whole time - even on fine or cloudy days - and you should not have shade cloth on on those days. Your tomatoes need as much sunlight as possible to grow and produce properly - it's just the heat that's the problem.
First, I really enjoy your videos! I’m in Northwest Florida and also experience the heat and terrible thunderstorms. I’ve actually had to start a second crop of my Brandywine tomatoes from seed because the heat and rain made my first set drop blooms and are barely growing now. With that said I like the shade cloth idea but it wouldn’t hold up to our 60 mph thunderstorms! Glad it’s working for you. Happy gardening!
Great video. I live in Antigua and we are experiencing a very long drought and my side of the island is the driest area; desert like conditions. Shade cloth and drip irrigation are my garden’s best friends.
Excellent advice. I’m in central Virginia and we just had a dry spell where I had to water my wilting plants. This past week, the rain came every day. I’m going to look into that sun shade cover. Thanks again for the video.
This video was perfectly timed! After watching it I decided I had to have one to protect my plants from the coming July heat so I bought one and seriously....best tip ever, my plants look so much better than when they were baking in the intense sun all day. Thank you!
You’re very welcome. It has made all the difference in my garden. The results are nothing short of miraculous.
THANK YOU! I live in the Mojave Desert and this just may allow me garden during our 110 to 115 WEEKS. every year. can't wait to try
It will help even more in the desert than where I live. It's so humid here that the shade still stays hot. In drier air, shade becomes a lot cooler, so I bet it'll help *a lot.*
I literally watched the video you referenced, bought shade cloth, and here we are now with another video. My figs took almost 2-3 weeks to break and form new leaves before, took less than a week to send out new leaves after shade cloth. All I did was drape cloth over, easy.
Great info, thank you so much!
Thanks! Great information!
SWEET WORK!! THANKS AGAIN for another awesome idea . Plants are amazing
I love your videos! Thank you. I checked and those tarps are affordable for sure. I will grab one each month for next year for sure. I must say thanks to you my tomatoes are amazing! God Bless you for all the great tips and information. You are one of my favorite gardeners now. You and James n Tucker lol.
I’m so glad the videos are helpful! Great to hear you’re doing well. I appreciate you watching.
Thank you for your very informative helpful productions.
Love the video, I started using plastic under my shade cloth, helps keep plants dryer
Wow, what a great idea! Thank you very much for sharing😊
I’m using a shade cloth in southeastern PA this year. We just had a stretch of high 80’s days and my new transplants looked stressed. Well, with the shade cloth they are thriving.
Wow! Your garden is looking great! Thank you for sharing this idea!! 😊👍It is very helpful 👍
Awesome 😎 thanks
Thank you!
Love it brother. Great price and size. Thanks ❤
Love it, and Dale!
Nice one, MG! 👍 I love my shade cloth...my peppers continue to produce right through our Central Texas summer.🫑
Hey to sweet Dale!🐕
I’m in Southern Louisiana and my figs trees rust out, wrinkle up and give in by August due to the heat. We are typically very hot and humid and the figs just can’t handle the heat. Last week I hung shade cloth as a trial. I’ve got half of the figs in pots under the black 40% shade cloth and they are doing fantastic. Their growth continued and the leaves are all still green. The other half are in pots in full shade. They have some rust and seem to grow very slow in the extreme heat. I have three larger in-ground that were turning color and dropping all the leaves as they have each year, but after having shade cloth for one week, they have new green leaves and green growth forming. I think they would have done great if shaded earlier in the summer. Next year will be epic! I think constant 90 and above, full sun takes a toll on the fig trees.
LOVE LOVE LOVE HOW YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING IN DETAIL!!! ALL QUESTIONS ALWAYS ANSWERED- THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Shade cloth is awesome! I have to use it to block the hot afternoon sun here in the Arizona low desert.
A few plants can handle our full sun, but very few.
If someone needs structure but can't build one like yours, I used 2 large Home Depot trellises spread out the length of shading needed. Rebar stakes secured the trellises into the ground. Ropes held the stakes to the trellises.
Then shade cloth was spread over each end of each trellis, secured with rope through the grommets.
Best to have the shade cloth about 5 feet or more in height so that it doesn't create an oven as it can do if it is spread directly over the plants.
For the most vulnerable plants, I use beach umbrellas in sturdy bases. But the bases and umbrella poles are secured by rebar stakes driven diagonally into the ground, resting up against both the base and the pole, and tied with rope.
I'd imagine it is mandatory where you live. It's also useful in the winter to cover deciduous trees that have a tendency to bud out before the last frost. It's great for late frost protection.
@@TheMillennialGardener Good thinking about using it during the winter as well.
Shade is pretty critical here, but only for the afternoon sun. My plants seem to want morning sun, but not afternoon here. However our summer growing is somewhat limited. But west facing shade definitely helps.
Garden looking good.
Also, as a side-note: I am very happy to see you finally experiencing a dry summer and having it easier with your fungal issues! But, as you can see now, every climate has its own problems. Here in Cape Town we normally have hot and dry summers (we are a winter rainfall area), but along with that comes the problem of heat damage and pests that like warm and dry conditions (like spider mite, thrips, white flies, tomato fruit worms, etc.) and the disease they carry. So you can never win! lol
Also, container gardening is a nightmare if you have hot, dry summers. No matter how much you water and fertilise (which is A LOT), your plants will still suffer. Until you realise it's not worth it. I bought into the whole fabric pot movement, and bought large ones to grow my tomatoes in, but they are simply an Achilles heel if you have hot, dry summers. So I now bury the pots in my clay soil! Works much better then lol
I put p my first ever 30 x20" shade cloth this...I might love the shade as much as my lettuce and toms! Supposed to hit 100° with 110° hi next week so timing is perfect!
I found the video from last year just last week. Brilliant! Will be ordering tomorrow ☺️ Thanks for your great suggestions and information 🌻
You’re welcome! Happy to help!
Your veggies look amazing…especially the tomatoes!
I absolutely love your videos! They are so informative, and you give so many useful tips. Thank you!
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
Great information. Thanks.❤
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Your garden is beautiful 😍
Thank you so much! I appreciate it.
You’re very welcome. 😊
This is great. Coming from AZ where we get extreme heat. I feel bad not putting plants in direct sun, however here you just can't.
Still in the 70s here in pa. Humidity is staring to come in and we are having showers downpour and thunderstorms. Beautiful gardens and a great idea. Thank you!
Thanks! Our terrible rains are coming up north. We have been drowning all week.
After critters ransacked my little garden greenhouse all veg plants destroyed two years ago, I sent for a standing (3.5' tall x 2'' width x 4.5'length) cedar, raised garden bed. Inspired by your pvc hoop houses made a list. Now, I have a raised garden bed (on casters to move if I need) hoop house (a very mini-version of your BIG hoop houses) covered with chickenwire for even more protection. , I've kept plants in containers so far. Weather in Northern Indiana is acting extremely unpredictable. A nasty heatwave in late May (mid-90's) for several days--then a massive, sudden temperature drop. Overnight we went from nighttime temps of 68-72 degrees to 48-51 degrees. I was able to find my long, thin, clear former clothes underbed storage container and place it over my plants sitting in their pots down in the cedar garden bed, to protect them from sudden cold shock (which they seemed to love.) I brought the Sweet 100 cherry tomato plants also close to the house on the back porch, covered in plastic shopping bags. They've all grown quite a bit (I've up-potted them since then.) Same weather pattern is predicted this weekend--hot, thunderstorms Sunday--then massive temp drop again. Nighttime temps dropping back into low 50's next week. Plants are way too large for covering them up again. This time, now that I have my raised garden bed mini hoop house (inspired by MG) I can simply cover the entire garden easily with former greenhouse polyvinyl covering (with zipper vents still intact.) Hoping my garden will last much longer in our very short growing season--or, maybe plant cold weather lettuces & spinach when these plants are done for Autumn fresh salad veg's. Thanks for the inspiration!! Excited to see the results. Love That Dale--he's a 'Sweetie Boy.' 🍅🥒🥗❤🐕
Awesome videos as usual. Really appreciate the time you spent on doing these. Up here in NE Tennessee near Bristol Tennessee, we have had more than enough rain. I'm afraid my 😊vegetables garden in going to rot. They are not planted straight in the soil but we took the top off, work it up, than put good organic soil on it with different animal manures. I believe it was Kellogg brand. We don't have the best run off, hoping it will be ok. Wish we could give use our rain. I think some is coming your way after it hits us. Thanks for sharing your information. Be safe.
It’s been so hot with extreme drought in WI. I’ve been using shade cloth for a few years. I found out that I Can grow radishes Under shade cloth!! The simplest thing to grow and we never could before. It was by accident that I planted under cloth this year-great discovery!😁. The sun is abnormally hot anymore. Thanks for idea on cage. We would need to place them a bit closer as the down pressure, IF it storms ever again, can really whip the fabric. We use wire and clamps to outer welded fence wire and inner T-posts. It’s a bit low, but I haven’t come up with a better system yet. Would like it if I could run it on cables to swing back on cooler days. Big wish. It doesn’t cover all of the garden and I have several. I was actually thinking of cutting wide strips to make it more manageable and as the sun advances it would move the shade.
I do know it makes a lot of difference in watering and growth.
No rain for over a month and 90s. Expecting at least some rain tonight through Monday I hope. If not the trees are already stressing and farmers are already cutting corn seedlings, ditches and marshes to feed livestock. It’s bad.
This is great! Been looking for a solution here in Florida, especially for 2 cinderblock beds I have at a community garden that get slaughtered by the sun. Going to experiment there to see what I can get by with in this Florida Summer heat!
Liked this video, great information. I grow citrus in Florida and growers are doing CUPS ( citrus under protective shade) to keep out a insect (HLB / greening disease) one of the benefits of the 30% shade houses has been the light difussion on citrus trees which has been great aid by helping increase in production. While watching you go thru your talk I thought that the light refraction is a great benifit for vegetables also. Keep the information coming.
I'm going to do this!!! Thank you!! Great ideas!!❤❤
You're welcome!
Great job! Thank you.
You're welcome!
Great video
I have been waiting for this particular video, telling us exactly what you use (40%) for shadecloth.
I checked out your Amazon storefront, but before I purchase, I wanted to hear it from...well, your own mouth. It's in my cart.
Thank you for posting this. BTW, I'm liking your channel more and more, with every video I watch. (Only been here about a week or so...lol.)
I just got my 40% shade cloth from your shop, it is a game changer! Thanks so much! Love your channel!
Excellent! I hope you have success.
I'm NOT 🙃🫣 so patiently waiting on the video for how we are turning the shade house into a greenhouse/high tunnel...I hope it's coming soon 🤞🤞. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge. 🌱🌱🌱
I can’t. The greenhouse film catches too much wind and it will not stay on. You need a real structure for that. The tunnel I built is fine for shade cloth and insect netting since it allows air through, but plastic is a giant sail.
@@TheMillennialGardener 😔😔 awww, there goes that idea 💡, thank you.
We are having a stellar spring and early summer here in North Texas too. I have been gardening only three years and the past two were learning trials for me with high heat and no rain for months and months and months. This year we are finally having normal rainfall totals due to El Nino and my garden is bursting at the seams. I'm sure you are just as thrilled by your successes as I am with mine. I wish I could put up a shade cloth over my entire garden though because it's finally starting to get opressively hot!
Rural North Central Texas here, lots of trees. I have found that siting my garden plants where they don't get all-day sun works for me. Newest site is where I demolished an old 35-foot shed, leaving half of the steel poles standing (shade cloth would be easily installed). Even with mature trees (thinned) I get hours of sunlight and good airflow. Tomatoes, cucumber melons, and summer squash doing well.
El Niño is killing plants in WI. Extreme drought and heat.
You have such great ideas and suggestions. Thank you for sharing for us new gardeners.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I’m using this technique with the conduit and shade cloth after watching your first video and have been so pleased with it. It’s hot here in north Texas, and I’m still getting lots of cucumbers and tomatoes. I plan to keep the hoops up to up frost protection once temps drop, too.
You won’t regret it. It is so beneficial. And you can get yourself another 2-4 weeks of growing by swapping it out for frost cloth.
Thanks for the timely video. Temps get over 110 here, it sounds like I need to get some shade cloths up asap!
It makes a HUGE difference!
Just ordered another shade cloth for my new berries. Def seeing some sun scald from the sun already. I also seemed to have rain right as my tomatoes ripened last year, so here's to hoping it works out better this year.
The cloth should definitely help. It’s definitely worth having on hand. And it’ll keep the birds off, too!
I’m trying to get one of your hats 🧢 love the channel thanks for sharing all the great tips!
I saw your video last fall and had some on hand and have put them over my peppers and cabbage, makes a difference. Will definitely cover my tomatoes. I am going to get more I feel like they do work. Thank you also on the coast not far from you near the base
It’s also great at preventing spring bolting! Great idea 👍 💡
Great idea! I’m going to try this. Southern Oregon gets brutal too..
It helps! And they double as late frost protection in winter. Covering your deciduous plants in winter prevents early bud break.
Here in the Netherlands the weather has been hot and dry also. No rain for over a month. Finally my rain barrell has been filled up again.
Same here in Wisconsin, US except no rain yet. Suppose to be rain tonight and next day, but we will believe it when we see it. Last tenth of an inch they say was May 19th. It’s dust.
Last year i used green mesh fencing i had for shade clothe it work well for me
You can get a shade tarp at your local nursery. I have both the shade and freeze tarps. The tomatoes like the white one (freeze protector tarp) best, it’s cooler.
I am so glad I found your channel - you are so informative and I appreciate all the info you share! I live in B'ham, AL and I just planted a hass avocado tree the beginning of this month. We are expecting temps in the high 90's and one or two days in the 100's this week. I am not prepared at all! Obviously, my tree does not have any fruit on it yet. Is it as important to shade it at this point? Also, I'm guessing before I put T-posts in the ground, I need to check to see if there's anything in the ground in that area, right?
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Will have shade cloth for next year, here in Mich. it's been in the 80's the last 2 weeks and a tenth of an inch of rain the last 5 weeks, awesome video.
It’s definitely not too late. It is good to have on hand for those heat waves and it doubles as protection in winter for preventing early bud break on deciduous fruit trees.
Here in west central Ohio it’s been so terribly cool. We are getting some rain today, but probably won’t reach 70’s today. 🥶
We had a very cool May into early June. Honestly, it was such a relief. But the last 2-3 weeks, a switch has been flipped. Now, it's been oppressive with torrential downpours. 90's and scattered storms for the foreseeable future. Summer is here.
the shade xloths work..i have used one foe a couple yeaars now on my greenhouse...big difference
@TheMillennialGardener I noticed the melons growing in the background of some of the footage in this video. Please make a video about growing and supporting melons vertically. I have my melon and pumpkin vines growing on the ground and they are taking over my small garden plot.
PS: Great video! I’m trying out shade cloth over my plants on my deck, being inspired by seeing it used in some of your videos.
Fun video.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you, I would love to try something like this so I could put my Hoyas outside.
You're welcome!
I was on the edge of my seat for a “you can do this” 😅 😂
Jokes aside, I love the breakdown, it helps so many like me I’m sure!
This is one of the best things I've ever done. I have a video dropping this afternoon for a solution if you can't build a structure.
I already have some 70% that I could use. Hopefully it still works. I'm going to try it out.
Southern oklahoma here and we've had triple the amount of rain this season 🤦♀️ normally I'd need your set up but the winds here are SO brutal I'd be scared to set it all up.
Im in central florida. Started using shade cloth last year its been great. However i use 70% because its so harsh here.
Please post a video about tomato blossom drop due to excessive dry winds. We’ve had the windiest Spring East of Clovis CA near the foothills, We’ve had very little fruit set due to blossom drop 😢
Thank you for this information and plan. I did follow your instructions for building one of these on a much smaller scale. I put the shade cloth up about 3 weeks ago and what a difference. It withstood 40+ MPH winds last week. I'm putting up two more this week. Could a heavy-duty plastic sheet be replaced in colder months to protect a winter garden?
Excellent. We had some whipping wind in the nonstop rounds of thunderstorms we got this week, and it held up well for me, too. The clothesline works very well. A plastic sheet will *not* work on this structure. It turns into a giant wind sail. Unfortunately, I wasted $100 on one that I now cannot use. I guess I'll be cutting it up over the years and using it for other smaller situations.
Very good video!! Thank you..this is the first year I am using shade clothes..I am so happy..it helps a lot..BTW- The green tomatoes behind you are totally amazing!❤❤😊😊😊 Your Dale is so good👍
Rain barrels are a lifesaver. We have received so much rain this week that mine have been overflowing for days 😆
@@TheMillennialGardener where can I get the rain barrels?
Are use 30% shade cloth in my 9b area On my tomatoes. It has saved them. 107 yesterday
You may need some sand bags to give weight to the shade cloth if you are expecting winds.
A few years ago I tried white shade cloth for the first time and like it much better than the black. It's definitely cooler. The black shade cloth gets much hotter, and you can feel the heat radiating from it when you walk under it. The white stays cooler and therefore radiates much less heat.
I bought it from Agriculture Solutions in Maine.
*DeWitt UV PE Knitted Shade Cloth - 50% White*
That wasn’t true for us. We bought a close woven white shade for patio and it was so bright and hot we returned it.
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Something doesn't add up. What was the light blockage rating?
All other factors being equal a black surface will get hotter than a white surface in the sun. My black shade cloth was definitely hotter than my white and I could feel it, not only by touch, but by the radiative effect (like a radiative heater).
The other thing I prefer about white shade cloth is that the light is softer and more diffuse.
I found this on the internet just now:
*"According to the research conducted by Dr. Daniel H. Willits at North Carolina State University (NCSU), the common black, knitted shade cloth doesn’t reduce the internal temperature of the greenhouse structure. In contrast, it allows heat to radiate onto plants."*
Thank you, this is my problem, especially the birds they are eating my fruit
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I'm battling white flies in my cucumbers and tomatoes. Tried soap sprays , not working too well.
Also have u tried Sashimi long cucumbers, heavy producers of long cucumbers and parthenocarpic
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So jealous of your tomatoes. Hopefully you have a video.
Great video. Do you have a video of how you built the hoops over the garden to hold the shade cloth? Thank you.
Yes. It is linked in the video description.
Wow this is awesome!! Thank you!! I’m barely starting to garden wellsomewhat successfully where my plants are staying alive by the grave of God, lol…but we live in California in a sandy area of Victorville so hot hot days are definitely coming, I was wondering what to do… last year I started potatoes and they where doing great an a hot wave destroyed them sadly…so thank you!! Hopefully I can do this in a smaller scale of-course, what did you put down on the floor?
Three things:
1. Drip irrigation
2. Heavy mulching
3. Shade cloth
If you employ those three things, you can be very successful. California's dry summers are excellent for plants, since rain is extremely destructive. If you can maintain irrigation and provide some sun relief, you can have incredible results. The product on the floor is weed barrier: ua-cam.com/video/V_I6XbZaLlo/v-deo.html
I’m in central Florida, should I use a white shade cloth. Love all of your videos.
I don’t think it matters. It is extremely cool underneath.
Thanks for this, I'll take this into consideration.
On another thought, can Meyer lemons survive 20 degrees in containers? I've got one, and it'll be in zone 8b/9a Seattle.
The coldest it gets is about 16-17 in the coldest winters. And I'd shelter it then, but at 20 would it be okay still, or should I shelter it/bring it into an unheated garage at 25 degrees?
Thanks in advance!
Hello:) I live in Wilmi as well. Quick question, when would be good time to plant sunflower seeds? Ty
What weed cloth are you using on the ground, and where did you get the shade cloth. Thanks in advance. Bobby