There are several plants in this video that do NOT need protection from frost or even a light freeze! I just wanted to demonstrate my method of getting ready for these types of weather events. What is your go-to method to jump in and protect your plants when a surprise frost or freeze is coming? Let us know in the comments, we’d all love to hear about other ways! If you want to know how to protect your garden from other types of weather, check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/xT63OrRK298/v-deo.html
I sometimes have to cover several beds each night, several nights in a row…pain in the neck. I keep shade cloth bunched up on the end of the beds so I can pull them up like a blanket. I keep pins tucked into the dirt at the end of each bed I have to cover. I toss the whole shadecloth over the length of the bed and tuck a few clips to hold it down in case it blows. I do the opposite in the morning when the sun it back out. Takes less than 10 min to cover 3-4 beds. Love your ideas!
That’s a really great and efficient way to take care of covering and protecting things on the fly. It’s especially handy in situations like you mentioned where you have to put them on and take them off and repeat it over and over again. I do this a lot in the same method with my shade cloth during the hot summer months. With the winter being so wet here all the time I tend to not leave the frost cloth out because it gets hard to handle when it’s wet and it also can get moldy when putting it away if I don’t have time to let it dry out. But I’m wondering now if I couldn’t take some of my greenhouse plastic and do the same thing and just create a small cover for at the end of the beds to protect it from some of the water that would save a lot of time. Thank you so much. that’s a fantastic idea!
Thank you, sir! Is definitely something that I’ve enjoyed a long time, and sharing with other people makes it even better. Hope you guys are doing well!
Howdy I always love hearing from fellow Texan! Glad to have you here as well if you have any questions at all or any thoughts, I’d love to hear them and help wherever I can!
I live here in Houston and this is my third year in spring will be my fourth year growing and I’ve noticed that the season is longer you know I’m still getting peppers and tomatoes and I did put winter harvest stuff in you know I got collards and spinach and I got garlic in there going and all kinds of good stuff but I’m surprised that tomatoes are still going at it and I did put potatoes in as well… I am addicted to putting potatoes in successionly
Hi again! It’s always great to talk to a fellow Texan especially someone not too far for me! You’re right this year has been extremely strange, or I should say 2023, into 2024 has been strange. Come to think of it, January 2023, and December 2022 were strange as well! Lol I actually pulled my tomatoes out as you could see the video not knowing that the weather would be so mild that I could’ve gotten much more out of them! But that’s OK, I have other things planted in there now and sometimes you just have to make a choice. I love succession planting potatoes! I will say my do really well in the spring, and I’m about to harvest my fall potatoes this week, those always grow well. Unfortunately, I have to hold off a bit into session planning in the summer. I wish I could figure out a better way to do it, and I have some ideas for this year to try although I’ve tried hundreds of different ways, but when I succession plant after spring, I always end up with baked potatoes! It’s just so hot and dry and trying to water them through can be difficult. If you were planting through the summer successfully, I’d love to hear your method! I’ve tried part shade, full shade, full sun, moving them around, all kinds of things.
Great tips, thanks for sharing. I heard watering well before frost and seasol application one week before also helps. Thats what I’ve been trying this year anyway!
I’ve also heard that watering very well overhead and during a light frost works very well. I do remember trying it maybe 10 years ago or maybe more, but I honestly can’t remember what the outcome was. I don’t think it got as cold as expected that night. Hopefully the messages are working well for you, and you’re finding some success with it. So much about doing this is about experimentation. What works for one person doesn’t necessarily work for the other just because climates are so different and microclimates can make a huge difference!
Great to hear from you again! The bananas are still growing well, and we had an extra long warm season this year, so I was really hoping to get fruit all the way through but unfortunately it was so up-and-down temperature. I don’t think that they will actually Get to the point of ripening or close to it. But so far they’re holding strong! I think I’m going to relocate them this year to a different area to see if I can get them a little more sun in the fall and see if that will help!
I’m glad you liked it! I don’t typically grow Paul gardens, because I just didn’t really know what to grow for many years. So for the last few years, I’ve really focused on varieties and types of plants that worked in my area. I’m thankful that I did because this year has been my best fall ever. It’s just all about experimenting and learning what works for you!
@@TexasGardenDoc I know what you mean. First year i learned what did well in my area and have replanted again. But now i am trying new vegetables to see what else works well here. I am trying out planting in grow bags this year and can’t wait to see how that goes. I have a small parcel in my back yard 25x35. And a couple raised beds testing them out to. Now that i have found your channel i will learn more ! Thanks for taking the time !
Absolutely! That’s definitely the way to do it! My only advice is that I have a tendency to try to plant a whole bunch of new stuff for varieties. I’ve never grown before at the same time. I’m hoping this year will be the first year I don’t do that. Lol. Sometimes I just can’t help myself! I just found that planting too many varieties that I didn’t know we’re understand yet I didn’t get much of an opportunity to learn how to take care of any of them, which kind of defeats the purpose. Keep on doing what you’re doing, you’ve definitely got it down, Pat!
Yes I did the same thing the first year, planted many different kinds of vegies and i learned from that not to get carried away with to many so we learn as we go and I can learn from you as well so very happy i came across your channel ! @@TexasGardenDoc
@TexasGardenDoc have you had any luck with the bananas? I am growing blue Java bananas in the North AUstin area, hopping to see fruit perhaps next year.
Hi there! I was just in Austin last week! I have not gotten fully right bananas yet, but I have got bananas every year. I would have gotten actual ripe bananas last year, except I did not see the fruit forming it was hidden at the top and I accidentally cut it out! It’ll definitely be challenging in Austin but the Java do pretty well with cool weather so it’s very possible you could end up with some bananas if we get a little bit of a break with the weather this year!
I know exactly what you mean. I’m watching the weather closely to see what to do and what steps I need to take in the garden to protect what I have. I was talking to a subscriber through email about the very thing that you’re talking about. We’ve had kind of a very unfortunate spring of events. It made things very difficult even just in the garden. I think everybody kind of needs an update maybe in short format and talk about things that are simple and quick like these storms that don’t require a lot of resources. Maybe I can throw something together quick and post it up as just a short little video for that purpose. I appreciate your kind words and I really do hope to get things back to normal very soon! Thank you so much!
LOL! I get a lot of comments telling me they are CAPSICUMS NOT JALAPENOS! =) I generally call things by their common name, but man people get upset when you call a pepper by its common name and not pepper or capsicum. I'd hate to ask for a 'pepper' hoping for a bell pepper and instead get a Habanero! Great comment!
@@TexasGardenDoc pepper are seeds from a plant indigenous to India. Chiles are nightshade plants originally from Mexico area. When Columbus misnamed the people "indians" he also misnamed the Chiles as "peppers" but es been over 500 years. Time to get it right. White supremacists insist on rejecting everything Mexicáno so, calling them pepper potentially perpetuates the racism
There are several plants in this video that do NOT need protection from frost or even a light freeze! I just wanted to demonstrate my method of getting ready for these types of weather events.
What is your go-to method to jump in and protect your plants when a surprise frost or freeze is coming? Let us know in the comments, we’d all love to hear about other ways!
If you want to know how to protect your garden from other types of weather, check out this video:
ua-cam.com/video/xT63OrRK298/v-deo.html
I sometimes have to cover several beds each night, several nights in a row…pain in the neck. I keep shade cloth bunched up on the end of the beds so I can pull them up like a blanket. I keep pins tucked into the dirt at the end of each bed I have to cover. I toss the whole shadecloth over the length of the bed and tuck a few clips to hold it down in case it blows. I do the opposite in the morning when the sun it back out. Takes less than 10 min to cover 3-4 beds. Love your ideas!
That’s a really great and efficient way to take care of covering and protecting things on the fly. It’s especially handy in situations like you mentioned where you have to put them on and take them off and repeat it over and over again. I do this a lot in the same method with my shade cloth during the hot summer months. With the winter being so wet here all the time I tend to not leave the frost cloth out because it gets hard to handle when it’s wet and it also can get moldy when putting it away if I don’t have time to let it dry out. But I’m wondering now if I couldn’t take some of my greenhouse plastic and do the same thing and just create a small cover for at the end of the beds to protect it from some of the water that would save a lot of time.
Thank you so much. that’s a fantastic idea!
Really awesome to see you doing so well brother! You definitely found what your good at and it shows. Keep it up! Much love man
Thank you, sir!
Is definitely something that I’ve enjoyed a long time, and sharing with other people makes it even better. Hope you guys are doing well!
I can see you enjoy it man. So much passion shining through. We are all good here hope you and the fam all good!
Thanks brother! I really appreciate that!
We’re doing well, doing our best to live day-to-day, like most people. So good to hear from you again!
North Texas here👏🏻. Glad to see you brother!!! I’m glad that I stumbled upon your content.
Howdy I always love hearing from fellow Texan!
Glad to have you here as well if you have any questions at all or any thoughts, I’d love to hear them and help wherever I can!
I live here in Houston and this is my third year in spring will be my fourth year growing and I’ve noticed that the season is longer you know I’m still getting peppers and tomatoes and I did put winter harvest stuff in you know I got collards and spinach and I got garlic in there going and all kinds of good stuff but I’m surprised that tomatoes are still going at it and I did put potatoes in as well… I am addicted to putting potatoes in successionly
Hi again! It’s always great to talk to a fellow Texan especially someone not too far for me!
You’re right this year has been extremely strange, or I should say 2023, into 2024 has been strange. Come to think of it, January 2023, and December 2022 were strange as well! Lol
I actually pulled my tomatoes out as you could see the video not knowing that the weather would be so mild that I could’ve gotten much more out of them!
But that’s OK, I have other things planted in there now and sometimes you just have to make a choice.
I love succession planting potatoes! I will say my do really well in the spring, and I’m about to harvest my fall potatoes this week, those always grow well. Unfortunately, I have to hold off a bit into session planning in the summer. I wish I could figure out a better way to do it, and I have some ideas for this year to try although I’ve tried hundreds of different ways, but when I succession plant after spring, I always end up with baked potatoes! It’s just so hot and dry and trying to water them through can be difficult.
If you were planting through the summer successfully, I’d love to hear your method! I’ve tried part shade, full shade, full sun, moving them around, all kinds of things.
Great tips, thanks for sharing. I heard watering well before frost and seasol application one week before also helps. Thats what I’ve been trying this year anyway!
I’ve also heard that watering very well overhead and during a light frost works very well. I do remember trying it maybe 10 years ago or maybe more, but I honestly can’t remember what the outcome was. I don’t think it got as cold as expected that night. Hopefully the messages are working well for you, and you’re finding some success with it. So much about doing this is about experimentation. What works for one person doesn’t necessarily work for the other just because climates are so different and microclimates can make a huge difference!
Great video and info! Whatever happened to your banana trees? You still have them? Have they fruited for you yet?
Great to hear from you again!
The bananas are still growing well, and we had an extra long warm season this year, so I was really hoping to get fruit all the way through but unfortunately it was so up-and-down temperature. I don’t think that they will actually Get to the point of ripening or close to it. But so far they’re holding strong!
I think I’m going to relocate them this year to a different area to see if I can get them a little more sun in the fall and see if that will help!
Great Help ! Thank you.
I’m glad you liked it!
I don’t typically grow Paul gardens, because I just didn’t really know what to grow for many years. So for the last few years, I’ve really focused on varieties and types of plants that worked in my area. I’m thankful that I did because this year has been my best fall ever.
It’s just all about experimenting and learning what works for you!
@@TexasGardenDoc I know what you mean. First year i learned what did well in my area and have replanted again. But now i am trying new vegetables to see what else works well here. I am trying out planting in grow bags this year and can’t wait to see how that goes. I have a small parcel in my back yard 25x35. And a couple raised beds testing them out to. Now that i have found your channel i will learn more ! Thanks for taking the time !
Absolutely!
That’s definitely the way to do it! My only advice is that I have a tendency to try to plant a whole bunch of new stuff for varieties. I’ve never grown before at the same time. I’m hoping this year will be the first year I don’t do that. Lol.
Sometimes I just can’t help myself! I just found that planting too many varieties that I didn’t know we’re understand yet I didn’t get much of an opportunity to learn how to take care of any of them, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Keep on doing what you’re doing, you’ve definitely got it down, Pat!
Yes I did the same thing the first year, planted many different kinds of vegies and i learned from that not to get carried away with to many so we learn as we go and I can learn from you as well so very happy i came across your channel ! @@TexasGardenDoc
I’m glad you found me as well, it’s great to have you here!
Nice. Thanks.
I’m glad you liked it, and I hope it helps you out as well. If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to reach out, I’d love to help!
Where are you at in our big state of Texas? ??
I’m about an hour north of you, or northwest, depending on how you look at it!
@TexasGardenDoc have you had any luck with the bananas? I am growing blue Java bananas in the North AUstin area, hopping to see fruit perhaps next year.
Hi there! I was just in Austin last week!
I have not gotten fully right bananas yet, but I have got bananas every year. I would have gotten actual ripe bananas last year, except I did not see the fruit forming it was hidden at the top and I accidentally cut it out!
It’ll definitely be challenging in Austin but the Java do pretty well with cool weather so it’s very possible you could end up with some bananas if we get a little bit of a break with the weather this year!
So, you get to 60k and just stop making videos? What the heck man? 😂 We need you with this weird weather here in se tx!
I know exactly what you mean. I’m watching the weather closely to see what to do and what steps I need to take in the garden to protect what I have.
I was talking to a subscriber through email about the very thing that you’re talking about. We’ve had kind of a very unfortunate spring of events. It made things very difficult even just in the garden. I think everybody kind of needs an update maybe in short format and talk about things that are simple and quick like these storms that don’t require a lot of resources.
Maybe I can throw something together quick and post it up as just a short little video for that purpose.
I appreciate your kind words and I really do hope to get things back to normal very soon! Thank you so much!
THANK YOU for calling them "jalapeños" instead of the misnomer, peppers. . .
Well, at least in the beginning of the video
LOL! I get a lot of comments telling me they are CAPSICUMS NOT JALAPENOS! =) I generally call things by their common name, but man people get upset when you call a pepper by its common name and not pepper or capsicum.
I'd hate to ask for a 'pepper' hoping for a bell pepper and instead get a Habanero!
Great comment!
@@TexasGardenDoc pepper are seeds from a plant indigenous to India.
Chiles are nightshade plants originally from Mexico area.
When Columbus misnamed the people "indians" he also misnamed the Chiles as "peppers" but es been over 500 years.
Time to get it right.
White supremacists insist on rejecting everything Mexicáno so, calling them pepper potentially perpetuates the racism