Cool weather crops like it cool. But if you are experiencing a heat wave, those plants not like it for very long. In this episode I will share with you 3 ways to keep your plants cool during hot weather so you can harvest them longer and keep them fresher.
VIDEO: 3 Ways to Protect Cool Weather Crops From Hot Weather
Cool weather crops like it cool. But if you are experiencing a heat wave, those plants not like it for very long. In this episode I will share with you 3 ways to keep your plants cool during hot weather so you can harvest them longer and keep them fresher.
Plant spinach in fall and keep clear tub over spinach. Will be ready to pick sometimes in Feb.
It's been a 100-102 here in ND past 3 days…absolutely crazy…..
Great idea to use a FITTED sheet!
What types of plants should be protected besides lettuce?
Welcome to "normal" in the South zone 8. Spring cool weather crops bolt to seed almost every single year. And first fall frost can be anywhere from Oct to Dec, so difficult to plan fall crop also. Good information, thank you.
Nebraska has been in the 90s since Friday. My spinach went to seed and I got very little.
Do you not get much wind? I have to put bricks all over my cloth.
That's the same heat wave that hit Eastern Washington and there Idaho panhandle.. Today we saw hail along with a cold rain. Never got into the 60s yesterday! (Yup, one good spinach salad and the rest bolted!)
I'm letting my spinach stay so I can gather seeds.
Thanks for the info and perfect timing. We have a real nasty heat wave here in zone 7 maryland. I found my shade cloth that I’ve had for 10 years and hardly used till now. Who’s says global warming is not a real thing! Trying to keep my spinach ,sugar snap peas and lettuce to keep producing. Watering every morning and shade cloth has kept things alive. The sugar snaps are just now starting to produce. It’s a lot of work I’m dripping from head to toe an hour into watering. Most of my joy for enjoying morning is gone with the deafing sound of the cicadas!
And sunscreen!
Thank you! Couldn't have this video at a better time. Very valuable information
My broccoli crop bolted 🙁 If I cut it back will it still produce? I reseeded just in case its a lost cause.
My spinach is bolting too
Does it matter if I use a dark sheet or a light sheet?
I have carrots planted and it's hitting 80s and 90s. They are in a partially shaded part of my garden. Will they keep growing or is it just getting too hot and I should pull them and plant something else?
I don't think water will actually burn the leaves. It would evaporate before that can happen.
What percentage of sun would you recommend getting through the shade cloth for vegetables? I live in central Missouri. Thank you for your suggestion.
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Can we have that heat wave gone again?
Just purchased my first shade cloth this year. Love love love it! We've had our 2nd heat wave this summer and it worked so well.
Thank you. It's 97 here today. 100 tomorrow.
Just watched this. I hope it is helpful for us here. I got home today and the temp out side at 3pm had cooled down to 111deg! This kind of thing happens regularly in the High Desert area of Southern California for weeks at a time. It’ll cool down to the 60s at night but be back above 100 for 3 weeks till we get a cold spell and things drop to the mid 90s for a week, then back in the oven. Nice thing about the high desert is that things cool down at night, where the low deserts stay 80s to 90s at night like in Arizona. To make matters even more interesting for gardening up here, it snows randomly in the later winter months making it difficult to raise crops during the winter also. Idea for Joshua Trees and Juniper bushes I guess, because they just love it.:)
Great tips! I was watering at sunset, but what you said makes perfect sense. Maybe if I water early I can catch the rabbits in action! LOL I am currently enjoying the MIgardener slow bolt arugula and I want to make the plants last as long as possible. Thanks, Luke!
Here in Ontario we have seen 39 with the humidex in the last couple of weeks. My cucumbers are upset.. lol
One method I use in my garden is planning location: planting cool loving plants in the semi-shade of my other plants. If in the open field I often like to plant row of cool loving plants on the EAST side of taller heat loving plants like tomatoes or eggplants. That way the cool loving plants are shaded especially during the AFTERNOON heat. Also, I use cattle panel like the one you have in the back of the garden on your video and while I have cucumbers, beans or other vines climbing on top, I have my leafy cool loving plants underneath in semi shade. 🙂
I just bought shade cloth and thought maybe I bought the wrong thing. You put my mind at ease that I did ok. Thank you for showing how to use it.