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Garden microclimates have the potential to dramatically boost harvests – if you know how to use them.
Warm walls, suntrap corners, shady areas, raised beds and crop covers can all lead to improved conditions – and higher yields – for different types of fruits and vegetables
In this short video, we demonstrate how using your garden’s microclimates to their best advantage can result in bigger, better harvests; year in, year out.
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My house is about 4 feet above ground level, I didn't realize what a difference that would make for temperature. A few years ago I started to put out my plants in spring. The tomatoes were in pots so I put them on the deck. At the base of the stairs I transplanted a zucchini and a few marigolds. A few days later I had a late nasty frost and everything on the ground died, but everything on the deck was fine!
Great episode! Im curious if anyone has links to places to learn more about identifying microclimates. In the video I got a sense that tracking shade was a metric for determining a microclimate, but are there more definite definitions and strategies for finding these? Otherwise it will be a few seasons of trial and error to figure out how the garden acts.
I can overwinter aloe vera in pots up against my house in Cornwall. They just turn to mush and die in other spots, even in a windowed shed.
Great tips!
These videos are teriffic, gentle but energetic, just like gardening. The tone is pitch perfect.
2 suggestions for segments I would like to see:
How to's for building temporary greenhouses out of inexpensive and "found" materials. with specifics for wise expectations of span and distance. Also specifics on the temperature controls and what temps I should be targeting and what to be careful about. Fellow gardeners have mentioned burning in the afternoon but have little to say when it comes to specifics.
For the garden planner, filters for successive plantings so that one can select from a smaller subset of for instance early green house or early sowing to select from. For beginning gardeners like myself it would go far to better planning to not have to scroll through everything and have a smaller, viable group to select from.
Oh and I forgot, I loved seeing the woven fence! So garden-y looking. I'd love to see a video on how to do this!
I grew basil on the east side of my tomatoes. It got full morning sun, and then in the afternoon heat it was shaded by leaves. It try to didn't bolt as soon as it had last year. Not sure how many extra weeks I got.
Happy accident that I will be repeating. Making microclimates with the shade from other plants is a totally valid life choice. 😉
Great information. My urban garden has a lot of shade, wind tunnels and a lot of fog since it near the ocean. I've learned what not to attempt by killing lots of plants. Squash is impossible. I have ended up with a mostly container garden that I move about as the sun rises during the season to miss the shade from structures and trees.
My southern New England driveway runs east to west. There is a sidewalk near the house (stucco) and about 5' between it and the drive, in which I plant tomatoes, onions and herbs.. The house, driveway and walk absorb heat during the day. While I harvest the tomatoes well into October and sometimes early November, I'm often getting herbs well into December. This year was unusually mild and the parsley survived the winter. The oregano and thyme are already coming back to life! If I'm not mistaken, the onion seeds I planted last November are starting to show through the seaweed I used to mulch the soil.
I live in the desert southwest of the U.S. and have placed my garden where the pine trees in my neighbors yard protects the garden from the extreme high temperatures of the summer sun. I also have planted semi dwarf fruit trees to break up the intensity of the summer sun to some degree. My main issue is the spring winds, some of which can be almost a month of no calm days.
This is a very informative video…. one that I will probably refer to later. You program looks very useful as well. God bless! 🙂
Ill definitely be using your advice to take advantage of growing leafy greens midsummer (near Chicago-US) when heat is sweltering here, Maybe for once I can have spinach in July! My own home grown,
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Excellent video! We're putting up wood fence this year–I hope we can create some microclimates that way. The south side of our house is always warmer. The neighbor's house blocks the wind and the sun does the rest. I have a cold frame over there but I'm thinking a micro-greenhouse might be a good thing too.