Island gardener here! High 80s, I have to start over entirely. Everything got hit with blight or mildew, shriveled in the heat, or just died upon germination. Hoping for a greener thumb this go around!
I tell you what helped me! I used mychorrizal innoculant and I live in Houston where it gets to be 108. I forgot to water my basil for three days! They are all in pots. The ones treated with the innoculant didn’t suffer any effects. The other ones shriveled up and died! I really was truly amazed. I also like that shirt!
Yes Texas where I live is scorching especially the last 2 weeks. Our humidity is terrible as well. We are getting a “cold front” tonight they said. Only supposed to be highs of 97-101 for the next 10 days. 🥵 they are not funny. My garden burned up a couple weeks ago and I’m not planting yet for fall. I’ll wait until mid September. Your plants look great. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Ditto!! I do container gardening in Houston. 2 weeks ago when I'd go outside, I was immediately sopping wet from the heat and humidity. I finally brought my containers inside to work on them! It was messy and dirt got everywhere, but at least I wasn't getting heatstroke trying to work on them.
Northern Maine has had brutally hot weather with no rain all summer! Mulching and watering is getting to be a daily routine. Nothing looks as it should!
Im in Texas,...and I don't know why I didn't think of creating a shade dome for my raised beds! August was a killer for my beds and container tomatoes. My Cukes seemed to give me a new one or two each week by surprise! Now Im ready for fall planting, and I'll have cover!
Life long texan with incredibly pale skin. Covering your skin and wearing more clothes will help you in the heat as long as you are hydrated. The more you do the more you will see the benefits. My routine is to apply suncreen, or a lotion with good spf, everywhere early in the day and let dry. Then just basically wear light winter clothes. It protects from Sun damage as well as allows the sweat to cling to you better for cooling. You will stink, but your skin will be safe and it deters aging.
My garden has slowed wayyy down in production. I’ve had to pluck off a couple of tomato horn worms that were eating one of my prize cherry tomato plants. Even though it’s raining now, we have more hot weather coming our way. We just got through one tropical storm, had another form off the coast and Lord knows what will be next. Gardening this year has certainly been an adventure!
My container garden was struggling, I was ready to pull out 50% of the plants. Then we finally got some deep long rain and the cucumbers in particular came back to life. The heat has passed here now and the mornings are cooler so Im getting ready to start some fall seedlings to get the most out of the next round of gardening.
I'm panicking to prep for winter protecting against cold but thinking of you fighting the heat...Decades ago I was involved in greenhouse construction & we put hot water heating in the concrete floor of the starter greenhouse. This was on acreage in a nursery and mass production so it worked well for starting cuttings when the little heat mats would be not affordable on large scale. Keep thinking cold water circulation in those pipes in concrete or under tile floors would definitely help things chill
We have a bad drought and multiple heat waves here in Boston that have really taken its toll on my garden this year. I heard a fellow local gardener say they’ve never seen a drought this bad in the 20 years they’ve been gardening. Thankfully we got some rain today and the latest heatwave has broken. A lot of my plants have barely pulled through. I’m going to nurse them along this fall and hopefully they’ll recover and come up healthy next year.
It’s been so hot here in South Texas, nothing but 100+ degree weather. There’s a chance of rain tomorrow so I have my hopes up. These tips will definitely help with next year’s heat.
What we use out here in Nebraska, we use newspapers to lay between the rows. Four to five layers of newspaper and then you put your grass clippings on top. Water well when you first put them down, and then a deep soaking every morning. We would also give a "perk up" water on the ground, not on the leaves around 3pm to help cool the soil so the roots can stay viable. We also give a compost tea once a week during hot spells. It is low on the acid but helps to revive the soil without stressing the plants. This would also begin during the early morning watering.
Our temps jumped 30 degrees in 8 hours so with my pre-heat deep water I added in some B vitamins for stress. Worked a treat. Only one multi-sown clump succumbed. Hope your temps come down some soon. 💚
Still winter here, but it's good to have some good information available for the coming summer. It can easily go past 40°C (104°F) and stay there for a week or so here in Australia where I live. Shade cloths are therefore a must-have here. Thanks for the video!
In Zone 9a and 9b in NorCal and this video is an EPIC help! Super bummed about the timing of this heat wave b/c Tom's and Green Beans were looking like a success until the 106 degrees temps hit us 2 days in a row! I took 2 tips away for 1st thing tomorrow morning. TY for damage control!
It’s definitely hot here in the High Desert area of Cali (Bishop) I’ve pulled out my first plantings of zucchini and yellow squash and reseeded for Fall and I’ve sown winter squashes, cucumbers, and beans for Fall as well as a lot of cold season crops in seed trays.
Over here we just had a massive heatwave of 8 days, with temps over 34 degrees Celsius every day. It didn’t hurt my garden as much as the drought and heat of March till may
Totally watching Tony Smith's gardening channel when he mentioned your channel regarding Seed Storage options, led me down the rabbit hole to the Impatient Gardener who then sent me to DeannaCat's blog which is the same storage option you are using.... That was exhausting! Oh, and I keep my genealogy photos and historical family photo's in those same types of boxes, just never saw the suit case style carrier with them.... And now I'm off to send more money to Amazon. Killing me here!!!
Up in coastal BC we just hit 91 F (33 C). Anything over 30 C is a heatwave up here. I've been using old dried pea plants/dried bits of garlic after peeling garlic to use as mulch, though most plants have bolted due to a back injury I got last month so wasn't able to water the garden during peak summer heat. :(
Here in Southern California the temperatures have been over 100 degrees everyday the past few weeks. My tomato and pepper plants have been seriously suffering! So many blossoms have dropped and the temperatures don’t seem to be cooling down for the next few weeks
Fantastic idea! Thanks for that I am about to pull the citronella from the middle of the planter into it's own pot as it took over. But kept some mosquitos away. :oP
@@dodopson3211 I used to use the lemon grass as mulch but it doesn't last me too long since it's light it gets blown away so you'll have to lay it thick. Good luck to all ☘️😎👍❤️
I'm so excited about the idea of having straw that can be shipped and used in the garden! Just wondering if Garden Straw guarantees that their product is aminopyralid free? It's a broad-leaf herbicide used by lots and lots of straw producers that can absolutely devastate a home garden.
Thanks so much for the timely info!!! We've been going thru some record breaking heat(& humidity 🤒😱!) here in N.E.-but I guess that's the same as much of the country!! Fires and floods and record-breaking heat. oh my
😃I cut myself off.... Heavy heat & humidity deterred me from watering my tomato plants that were in an elevated patio planter. I'm not an early riser(& my ac stopped!) so looks like my poor plants are going to be recycled as compost into another bed 🙄...good thing I have some in pots- but it's still sad! I don't think I amended the soil enough this year 🤔....
spring is coming up over here some of the trees around my neighbourhood have started budding already i need to get some pots ready for planting my yard feels a fair bit hotter than average as it is fully paved (atleast we chose a light grey brick but its still hotter than dirt/grass) generally doesnt get too hot here (32c average from november-mid february) with summer rainstorms about 1-3 weeks apart each only problem is the soil in the pots is starting to look a bit barren and levels have dropped over the last few years (kinda been neglecting my garden)
Before the summer sun arrives in late spring, get all container food plants into the ground, they do sooo much better when in the ground, no matter what~
I tried GardenStraw this year and I’ve never had a slug problem until now! I suspect up here in Zone 3B it’s just too cool at night for mulch. It would be great to see this product in something other than a big plastic bag? Maybe little bales in a flat-rate-sized box?!
Could you make a video about ventilation or more generally plant respiration? I live in Texas and we've had and routinely have days where the temperature is >100 from ~11 AM - 6/7 PM... I've found that using a fan helps immensely in growing cat grass and spearmint, and outside at that to deter the air heat stress on the plants because we get pretty high humidity too which makes the 100 degree heat even worse. I honestly think if I wasn't using a fan/some form of air ventilation my bed would be dead.. Thanks for the great video Kevin!
We've had some heavy and humid days here in Southern Ontario. My plants are looking a bit droopy but they're surviving! My strawberries seem to love it though!
Live in Central Valley, CA. HOT here! 107 today. Just got some shade clothes the other day. Saved my favorite cucumber plant!!! Interested in the garden straw!!!
The heath just killed my two young mango saplings and it's starting to affect my citrus trees. I'm in Tijuana, Mexico... So I guess we share a similar temperature.
Shade cloth is a live saver. I cover all my transplants with it for at least 2 weeks. This way they have a better chance of establishing themselves before the dreaded sun.
I tend to water my plants late in the evening and early in the morning And I grow almost only in containers, so I move them to a more shadow rich spot, and put dishes under the containers
Moving them doesn’t stress them? I grown mostly in Grow Sacks that are movable (have handles). Thanks for the tip. Didn’t want to stress out my food! ✌🏾
@@iamdjsluggo it can stress them out a lil bit, but you can basically say its similar to a tree that fell over causing more shadow, Except no tree fell over and the pot will be moved to a behind a tree or building 😂
Dominique Sto. Domingo I’m in the USA, it’s been raining a lot where I live in. Yes, I heard that it’s been raining raining in the Ph too, you can put your herbs in the garden shed for the main time.
Thanks so much for the summer heat tips! On another note, I have a pallette that I was thinking will make a great wall garden. Any tips of what to use to hold the soil and plants? I saw one in you garden.
Hello from Canada! It gets super cold here... but just for a short time it gets super hot! My garden soil is black, not brown, not dark brown- blaaack. It absorbs heat terribly. The internal temperature of my soil can get uncomfortably hot. So, I let my weeds grow. Yes. My weeds protect my veggies and I carefully tend them, not allowing them to flower. It's a symbiotic system that works during my short growing season. Sorry if using weeds (mostly edible types like dandelion, porchulacca, sorrel, and plantain) bothers some. 😉😄👍❤
Thank you for sharing about shade cloth covers. Can you post a video regarding colors. I am in Houston so learning about why the summer always slows is crucial. It's difficult to find videos addressing this.
We actually put. Up a large portable shade tent without the sides during a bbad heat wave last spring when our peas and cruciferous were starting to melt. It ended up staying for 3 weeks so our seedings could take off. It worked and they are are great now. Now we have shade cloth over much of the garden for the next few days til the heat wave passes. First time in over 30 years we have had to protect from sun. Its usually the cold we deal with.
We just had the longest streak of hot weather in the history of the Netherlands, and my INDOOR garden has suffered so much, even though I monitor it all day. Thank you from The Hague!
Why didn’t you post this two weeks ago. Stupid California heat waves took my poor babies. Chamomile , romaine, red and green peppers, oregano, and jalapeños!!!! My thyme is fine and my tomatoes are standing on one leg lol but I’m happy I had a summer patio hobby; until next year!!
I'm a new gardener and I live in SoCal (just north of you). I'd love to grow some lettuce & spinach for my wife. But I can't seem to get them to grow in the summer. Do you think shade cloth 30-50% would work??
How in the world are in you in a long sleeve 😳? Lol (Also in SD) Can't wait to grab a bag of gardenstraw. I need to remulch my garden. Loving the look esp since it's chopped up and seems easier to spread.
Second love the video’s and was thinking about the same thing and what they could do to help. Have to watch the other video on rain . Having some thunderstorms right now. Thanks and much love from 🇨🇦👍.
I'm so excited for the straw bag release in your shop! I've been wanting to mulch with straw with a while now but can't justify getting a whole bale for my tiny container garden. Great idea for a product!
The heat fried all my plants :( I have a south facing garden with no irrigation system so i have to manually water with a watering can from the sink multiple times a day. all my plants are burnt and dead :(
Im learning alot from your videos!! We are still in our winter season here in New Zealand & I'm looking forward to our spring to prepare my garden for summer!
My uncle married a Coptic girl from the south of Egypt. First time she got off the plane here in Louisiana to meet the grandparents she was like 'Huh, feels just like home'. I think it is just a little cooler though not all that much. Probably all the trees and more water helps keep it a bit cooler.
I'm in SoCal near LA and it's been around 110 here all week. My table top gardens are drying out so bad it's like the dirt is repelling water. When I water them it runs straight down out the drainage holes but if I stick my hand in it's all dry. I've got plants in there so I can't really stir it up like you might do to a dry bag of top soil. Do you have any tips on how to get the whole thing to soak up water again?
Thank you for this! I live in Culebra, Puerto Rico and it doesn’t rain much. The heat here is very tough as well. So thank you so much for sharing this video with us!🤩
Great tips! I’ve been watering all my plants and garden around 7:30-8am. I live in Riverside, Ca and it’s extremely hot here. I have a question regarding plant bags, I have some black plant bags which I’ve planted oregano and cilantro and I’ve noticed the outside of the cloth bag has some green growing. Have you ever experienced this with your grow bags? Looks almost like fungus.
Hi. If watering in morning, consider watering ground level. Water droplets on leaves will be glass magnifier n scald leaves. If you know your garden will growing mostly in summer, take small tall wax cartons, like holes in them n bury few in soil n plant around them. When hot weather moves in, unscrew cap in carton , fill with water, deep watering achieved. Peace to you and yours
IT'S SO HOT! How's your garden doing?
It’s sooo hot here in northern Cali 😢
hot in Toronto. my poor tomato plants are yellowing 😢
Oh amazing! I will keep an eye out!
Yes, it has been very hot....Friday it was 102 in the shade. We normally have a heat wave in Sept., Santa Cruz County, California.
Island gardener here! High 80s, I have to start over entirely. Everything got hit with blight or mildew, shriveled in the heat, or just died upon germination. Hoping for a greener thumb this go around!
I tell you what helped me! I used mychorrizal innoculant and I live in Houston where it gets to be 108. I forgot to water my basil for three days! They are all in pots. The ones treated with the innoculant didn’t suffer any effects. The other ones shriveled up and died! I really was truly amazed. I also like that shirt!
Yes Texas where I live is scorching especially the last 2 weeks. Our humidity is terrible as well. We are getting a “cold front” tonight they said. Only supposed to be highs of 97-101 for the next 10 days. 🥵 they are not funny. My garden burned up a couple weeks ago and I’m not planting yet for fall. I’ll wait until mid September. Your plants look great. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Sorry to hear that
The humidity is suffocating! So hard, In grateful for my dry heat here in Utah
Yep. Yep. Yep. No rain, and that "cold front" was a joke. We're at 99 right now, and haven't had any rain in weeks. We've had maybe 2" since mid-May.
Ditto!! I do container gardening in Houston. 2 weeks ago when I'd go outside, I was immediately sopping wet from the heat and humidity. I finally brought my containers inside to work on them! It was messy and dirt got everywhere, but at least I wasn't getting heatstroke trying to work on them.
@@piccolina4328 dry heat? That exists? I'm in NY so heat = sauna.
I need a video regarding zones and what to plant in the different times of the year. You'll make it so easy to understand for newbies.
I am a water person.. your video makes me happy.. water and beautiful summer plants,..yesssss
Excess heat hadn’t been much of a problem for us in Maryland, but this year it has been a problem
Oh man, sorry to hear Siloe
Northern Maine has had brutally hot weather with no rain all summer! Mulching and watering is getting to be a daily routine. Nothing looks as it should!
Oh wow!
Im in Texas,...and I don't know why I didn't think of creating a shade dome for my raised beds!
August was a killer for my beds and container tomatoes. My Cukes seemed to give me a new one or two each week by surprise! Now Im ready for fall planting, and I'll have cover!
Good tips my friend. Get em watered early in the morning. Lots of mulch helps as well.
You got that right!
Life long texan with incredibly pale skin. Covering your skin and wearing more clothes will help you in the heat as long as you are hydrated. The more you do the more you will see the benefits. My routine is to apply suncreen, or a lotion with good spf, everywhere early in the day and let dry. Then just basically wear light winter clothes. It protects from Sun damage as well as allows the sweat to cling to you better for cooling. You will stink, but your skin will be safe and it deters aging.
Very rainy and cool in NYC 🌧
My garden has slowed wayyy down in production. I’ve had to pluck off a couple of tomato horn worms that were eating one of my prize cherry tomato plants. Even though it’s raining now, we have more hot weather coming our way. We just got through one tropical storm, had another form off the coast and Lord knows what will be next. Gardening this year has certainly been an adventure!
Ooooof!
My container garden was struggling, I was ready to pull out 50% of the plants. Then we finally got some deep long rain and the cucumbers in particular came back to life. The heat has passed here now and the mornings are cooler so Im getting ready to start some fall seedlings to get the most out of the next round of gardening.
So glad to hear
I'm panicking to prep for winter protecting against cold but thinking of you fighting the heat...Decades ago I was involved in greenhouse construction & we put hot water heating in the concrete floor of the starter greenhouse. This was on acreage in a nursery and mass production so it worked well for starting cuttings when the little heat mats would be not affordable on large scale. Keep thinking cold water circulation in those pipes in concrete or under tile floors would definitely help things chill
We have a bad drought and multiple heat waves here in Boston that have really taken its toll on my garden this year. I heard a fellow local gardener say they’ve never seen a drought this bad in the 20 years they’ve been gardening. Thankfully we got some rain today and the latest heatwave has broken. A lot of my plants have barely pulled through. I’m going to nurse them along this fall and hopefully they’ll recover and come up healthy next year.
It’s been so hot here in South Texas, nothing but 100+ degree weather. There’s a chance of rain tomorrow so I have my hopes up. These tips will definitely help with next year’s heat.
Love that shade cloth idea!
What we use out here in Nebraska, we use newspapers to lay between the rows. Four to five layers of newspaper and then you put your grass clippings on top. Water well when you first put them down, and then a deep soaking every morning. We would also give a "perk up" water on the ground, not on the leaves around 3pm to help cool the soil so the roots can stay viable. We also give a compost tea once a week during hot spells. It is low on the acid but helps to revive the soil without stressing the plants. This would also begin during the early morning watering.
Smart move!
I live in Florida so it can get very hot pretty often. I really needed this video. Thanks Kevin. 🙏🏾
Happy to help!
This video is EPIC. The past two weeks have killed nearly all my cucumbers and tomatoes here in the DFW area.
:(
Our temps jumped 30 degrees in 8 hours so with my pre-heat deep water I added in some B vitamins for stress. Worked a treat. Only one multi-sown clump succumbed. Hope your temps come down some soon. 💚
Still winter here, but it's good to have some good information available for the coming summer. It can easily go past 40°C (104°F) and stay there for a week or so here in Australia where I live. Shade cloths are therefore a must-have here.
Thanks for the video!
Oof...so hot
digging the new camera, thanks for the helpful tips!
In Zone 9a and 9b in NorCal and this video is an EPIC help! Super bummed about the timing of this heat wave b/c Tom's and Green Beans were looking like a success until the 106 degrees temps hit us 2 days in a row! I took 2 tips away for 1st thing tomorrow morning. TY for damage control!
Would love to see a in depth video on you made these shade boxes
It’s definitely hot here in the High Desert area of Cali (Bishop) I’ve pulled out my first plantings of zucchini and yellow squash and reseeded for Fall and I’ve sown winter squashes, cucumbers, and beans for Fall as well as a lot of cold season crops in seed trays.
High 90s and yesterday was 104 in LA county for me
Love the video Kevie! Another home run!
Thanks again!
My garden was absolutely desamated by the sun. It’s been 100+ in Arizona for over a month. Everything is fried, including some of my cactus.
arizona is too hot! :(
Yikes yeah when it gets that hot it's gotta be hard to keep everything alive!
It was a record setting year for heat!
(Phoenix)
Over here we just had a massive heatwave of 8 days, with temps over 34 degrees Celsius every day. It didn’t hurt my garden as much as the drought and heat of March till may
Totally watching Tony Smith's gardening channel when he mentioned your channel regarding Seed Storage options, led me down the rabbit hole to the Impatient Gardener who then sent me to DeannaCat's blog which is the same storage option you are using.... That was exhausting! Oh, and I keep my genealogy photos and historical family photo's in those same types of boxes, just never saw the suit case style carrier with them.... And now I'm off to send more money to Amazon. Killing me here!!!
Love his channel!
I am north of you in the central valley. We easily get 100's. I understand SD deals with humidity as well. Not easy.
Its so hot we all definitely need to shade our gardens I live In Oklahoma this summer was murder with the heat
Love that your video quality is 4k.
Upping it always!
That helped a lot it’s crazy hot right now in Los Angeles. Thanks for the amazing tips
Up in coastal BC we just hit 91 F (33 C). Anything over 30 C is a heatwave up here. I've been using old dried pea plants/dried bits of garlic after peeling garlic to use as mulch, though most plants have bolted due to a back injury I got last month so wasn't able to water the garden during peak summer heat. :(
Here in Southern California the temperatures have been over 100 degrees everyday the past few weeks. My tomato and pepper plants have been seriously suffering! So many blossoms have dropped and the temperatures don’t seem to be cooling down for the next few weeks
My garden is taking a beating
Ive been using my lemongrass as mulch for all my plants. It grows insanely fast and i dont really use it a whole lot when cooking anyways.
That's a fantastic idea actually!
That's a fantastic idea! Gonna do that 👍
Fantastic idea! Thanks for that I am about to pull the citronella from the middle of the planter into it's own pot as it took over. But kept some mosquitos away. :oP
Thats so smart, the scent should theoretically help deter pests too. I'll definetly do that too 👏
@@dodopson3211 I used to use the lemon grass as mulch but it doesn't last me too long since it's light it gets blown away so you'll have to lay it thick. Good luck to all ☘️😎👍❤️
I'm so excited about the idea of having straw that can be shipped and used in the garden! Just wondering if Garden Straw guarantees that their product is aminopyralid free? It's a broad-leaf herbicide used by lots and lots of straw producers that can absolutely devastate a home garden.
Thanks so much for the timely info!!! We've been going thru some record breaking heat(& humidity 🤒😱!) here in N.E.-but I guess that's the same as much of the country!! Fires and floods and record-breaking heat. oh my
😃I cut myself off.... Heavy heat & humidity deterred me from watering my tomato plants that were in an elevated patio planter. I'm not an early riser(& my ac stopped!) so looks like my poor plants are going to be recycled as compost into another bed 🙄...good thing I have some in pots- but it's still sad! I don't think I amended the soil enough this year 🤔....
spring is coming up over here
some of the trees around my neighbourhood have started budding already
i need to get some pots ready for planting
my yard feels a fair bit hotter than average as it is fully paved (atleast we chose a light grey brick but its still hotter than dirt/grass) generally doesnt get too hot here (32c average from november-mid february) with summer rainstorms about 1-3 weeks apart each
only problem is the soil in the pots is starting to look a bit barren and levels have dropped over the last few years (kinda been neglecting my garden)
Before the summer sun arrives in late spring, get all container food plants into the ground, they do sooo much better when in the ground, no matter what~
I tried GardenStraw this year and I’ve never had a slug problem until now! I suspect up here in Zone 3B it’s just too cool at night for mulch. It would be great to see this product in something other than a big plastic bag? Maybe little bales in a flat-rate-sized box?!
Could you make a video about ventilation or more generally plant respiration? I live in Texas and we've had and routinely have days where the temperature is >100 from ~11 AM - 6/7 PM... I've found that using a fan helps immensely in growing cat grass and spearmint, and outside at that to deter the air heat stress on the plants because we get pretty high humidity too which makes the 100 degree heat even worse. I honestly think if I wasn't using a fan/some form of air ventilation my bed would be dead.. Thanks for the great video Kevin!
For sure!
It’s hot in England too, my lavender is s u f f e r i n g
Great info thanks 😊
The good thing about the heat in my area, is I’m having no slug problems this year.😊😊
Shrivel up those little suckers! 💪
Now imagine a tropical climate with humid heatwave 😳
We've had some heavy and humid days here in Southern Ontario. My plants are looking a bit droopy but they're surviving! My strawberries seem to love it though!
Great tips! Very logical! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Love this!
Upper 90s - 100 degrees here in northern Oregon, we are NOT used to this type of disrespect haha.
I’m watching this video bc My rosemary just got scorched in this heat wave, Rip
All my herbs and lettuce and stuff have bolted and are done too
Definitely needed this. Thank you so much!!!
Live in Central Valley, CA. HOT here! 107 today. Just got some shade clothes the other day. Saved my favorite cucumber plant!!! Interested in the garden straw!!!
It's been crazy hot here (Utah) with absolutely no rain at all.
You should put a thermometer in side the pvc black box/shade cloth. I’m curious how hot it gets in that box.
I sure could use a coastal breeze right now! So jeleous I'm as green as your shirt. ;P
;)
Great tips👍👍. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I'm dealing with sudden cold it sucks because I just planted cucumbers because I just got the seeds last week
It's a bit late now for this video. I'll bare this in mind for the next heat wave 👍🏻 thanks bro
No problem 👍
The heath just killed my two young mango saplings and it's starting to affect my citrus trees. I'm in Tijuana, Mexico... So I guess we share a similar temperature.
Shade cloth is a live saver. I cover all my transplants with it for at least 2 weeks. This way they have a better chance of establishing themselves before the dreaded sun.
Here in Florida it’s a heatwave from May through November.
So I hear :(
Not to mention the humidity... I'm grateful for dry heat at least!
Ugh yes 😩 I went out this morning at like 9 something to water the sweet potatoes and it was already really hot
I tend to water my plants late in the evening and early in the morning
And I grow almost only in containers, so I move them to a more shadow rich spot, and put dishes under the containers
Moving them doesn’t stress them? I grown mostly in Grow Sacks that are movable (have handles). Thanks for the tip. Didn’t want to stress out my food!
✌🏾
@@iamdjsluggo it can stress them out a lil bit, but you can basically say its similar to a tree that fell over causing more shadow,
Except no tree fell over and the pot will be moved to a behind a tree or building 😂
@@abyssal_phoenix good point!
How can you possibly wear that long sleeve shirt! It's so hot! Great video! Much respect grobro! Keep up the great info🌳👊😁🌳🇺🇸
Today in northeast Oregon it's 100 with a nice hot 15-20 miles per hour wind. Disgusting!
Oh mannnn
It’s 70ish where I live in, so isn’t that hot, we got rain a lot though, my garden is doing great
Are you here in the Ph? It’s raining everyday!!! My herbs are drowning. :(
Dominique Sto. Domingo I’m in the USA, it’s been raining a lot where I live in. Yes, I heard that it’s been raining raining in the Ph too, you can put your herbs in the garden shed for the main time.
Thanks so much for the summer heat tips!
On another note, I have a pallette that I was thinking will make a great wall garden. Any tips of what to use to hold the soil and plants? I saw one in you garden.
This is one of the reasons why I'm a big fan of food forest layers. You don't even need to have the canopy and it works really well.
For sure!
I don't know much about this I'll have to go check it out
@@piccolina4328 Geoff Lawton is a great source
Are food forest layers on UA-cam?
@@ortenciahill513 ua-cam.com/video/hCJfSYZqZ0Y/v-deo.html
Here in Chula Vista, CA area.. and the heat has killed a lot of my young plants.. so sad..
Shade with umbrellas and sm plants in sm containers to move into shade or cooler areas.
:( I feel you on that!
Hello from Canada! It gets super cold here... but just for a short time it gets super hot!
My garden soil is black, not brown, not dark brown- blaaack.
It absorbs heat terribly. The internal temperature of my soil can get uncomfortably hot. So, I let my weeds grow. Yes. My weeds protect my veggies and I carefully tend them, not allowing them to flower. It's a symbiotic system that works during my short growing season. Sorry if using weeds (mostly edible types like dandelion, porchulacca, sorrel, and plantain) bothers some. 😉😄👍❤
Thank you for sharing about shade cloth covers. Can you post a video regarding colors. I am in Houston so learning about why the summer always slows is crucial. It's difficult to find videos addressing this.
We actually put. Up a large portable shade tent without the sides during a bbad heat wave last spring when our peas and cruciferous were starting to melt. It ended up staying for 3 weeks so our seedings could take off. It worked and they are are great now. Now we have shade cloth over much of the garden for the next few days til the heat wave passes. First time in over 30 years we have had to protect from sun. Its usually the cold we deal with.
Creative solution!
96 Today in Seattle!!!
We just had the longest streak of hot weather in the history of the Netherlands, and my INDOOR garden has suffered so much, even though I monitor it all day. Thank you from The Hague!
Oof!
Why didn’t you post this two weeks ago. Stupid California heat waves took my poor babies. Chamomile , romaine, red and green peppers, oregano, and jalapeños!!!! My thyme is fine and my tomatoes are standing on one leg lol but I’m happy I had a summer patio hobby; until next year!!
Love Ur chanell
I'm a new gardener and I live in SoCal (just north of you). I'd love to grow some lettuce & spinach for my wife. But I can't seem to get them to grow in the summer. Do you think shade cloth 30-50% would work??
They're classic fall/spring crops here in socal...wait a couple months!
@@epicgardening Sounds good. Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work, dude.
How in the world are in you in a long sleeve 😳? Lol (Also in SD)
Can't wait to grab a bag of gardenstraw. I need to remulch my garden. Loving the look esp since it's chopped up and seems easier to spread.
Mosquitos :(
@@epicgardening ugh I know the feeling. I feel like I can play connect a dot. Thanks so much for all your helpful awesome videos.
It's so hot , my mint got roasted to death already T_T
Hm interesting tips. Shade cloth definitely makes the most sense.
You could also use Castro beans plant
@@ZE308AC I don't think it's spelled how you think it's spelled :D
@@tomjones6944 know that you mentioned it i misspelled it.
Second love the video’s and was thinking about the same thing and what they could do to help. Have to watch the other video on rain . Having some thunderstorms right now. Thanks and much love from 🇨🇦👍.
Awesome! Thank you!
Epic Gardening thanks for the video’s and the podcast too love listen to that too :
I'm so excited for the straw bag release in your shop! I've been wanting to mulch with straw with a while now but can't justify getting a whole bale for my tiny container garden. Great idea for a product!
Same here...I've been waiting myself! haha
At what temperatures would you shade tomatoes and (hot) peppers?
I start work at 5 AM, it’s hard to get out there early to water. I need drip irrigation
I live in Texas and had a roll of burlap lying around. That seems to be working for me.
SideCharacter#3 I live in Texas to roll me some burlap!
The heat fried all my plants :( I have a south facing garden with no irrigation system so i have to manually water with a watering can from the sink multiple times a day. all my plants are burnt and dead :(
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Can you give me tips to get my lemon plant to bare fruit?? I planted it a few years ago from seed
Im learning alot from your videos!! We are still in our winter season here in New Zealand & I'm looking forward to our spring to prepare my garden for summer!
Me living in middle east:
1000000000000000000000000 degrees
My uncle married a Coptic girl from the south of Egypt. First time she got off the plane here in Louisiana to meet the grandparents she was like 'Huh, feels just like home'.
I think it is just a little cooler though not all that much. Probably all the trees and more water helps keep it a bit cooler.
I'm in SoCal near LA and it's been around 110 here all week. My table top gardens are drying out so bad it's like the dirt is repelling water. When I water them it runs straight down out the drainage holes but if I stick my hand in it's all dry. I've got plants in there so I can't really stir it up like you might do to a dry bag of top soil. Do you have any tips on how to get the whole thing to soak up water again?
Water very lightly until the soil top is moist, then come in with a deeper water
What about shit or manure for light fertilizing
When its 66 degrees in New York today
Jealous
Thank you for this! I live in Culebra, Puerto Rico and it doesn’t rain much. The heat here is very tough as well. So thank you so much for sharing this video with us!🤩
Oh my goodness, I hate heat! I giveup my garden, heat dried out my plants 113F 🤷🤷😌😥
Great tips! I’ve been watering all my plants and garden around 7:30-8am. I live in Riverside, Ca and it’s extremely hot here.
I have a question regarding plant bags, I have some black plant bags which I’ve planted oregano and cilantro and I’ve noticed the outside of the cloth bag has some green growing. Have you ever experienced this with your grow bags? Looks almost like fungus.
Yeah that's just algae buildup, you can scrub off with baking soda and water
Thank you for the advice. Is the Garden Straw available in the San Diego area?
It will be soon
my squash are frying in the sun.. still producing though, the corn seem to be loving it...
Link for where we can get that long-sleeve? Looks fresh 👌🏻
www.thesill.com
Hi. If watering in morning, consider watering ground level. Water droplets on leaves will be glass magnifier n scald leaves. If you know your garden will growing mostly in summer, take small tall wax cartons, like holes in them n bury few in soil n plant around them. When hot weather moves in, unscrew cap in carton , fill with water, deep watering achieved. Peace to you and yours
They really don't scald leaves, common myth there!