In this video, I explain why you’re growing fall veggies wrong! Fall gardening season is a wonderful time of year, but many gardeners struggle with planting times. If there is an early cold snap, a fall garden can fail before the crops are ready for harvest. This tip revolutionizes fall gardening and will nearly guarantee a successful harvest!
Because fall crops are often heat sensitive, we must wait for summer to cool down before we planting fall vegetables. If a long, hot summer then meets an early, cold winter, the growing season can be truncated. This can cause fall crops to fail before harvest. The same thing can happen in spring. We have to wait until winter warms up to plant spring crops, and sometimes, spring heats up too quickly and causes spring garden crops to bolt!
This gardening method can stop crops from bolting in spring and allow you to plant a fall garden earlier, while also protecting summer crops from heat AND prevent fruit trees from breaking bud too early in spring, preventing late frost damage! You can use this gardening tip 365 days a year!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Cool Season Gardening Challenges
2:11 The Solution To Gardening Year Round
4:18 How Shade Cloth Works Year Round
6:09 A Simple Hoop House Design
8:17 Planting Fall Garden Crops
8:54 Installing Shade Cloth
11:59 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Cool Season Gardening Challenges
2:11 The Solution To Gardening Year Round
4:18 How Shade Cloth Works Year Round
6:09 A Simple Hoop House Design
8:17 Planting Fall Garden Crops
8:54 Installing Shade Cloth
11:59 Adventures With Dale
how large is the shade tarp your showing in the vid and how fas apart are your T-posts?
Love your videos ! Thanks for all the info, we moved to NC from MA and learning a lot from your videos. Shade cloth is such a great tip ! Can you please share where you get the "Party Time" Cucumber seeds ? TY
Will this work on a small greenhouses?
You must feed the HOA in your area so they dont bust your chops
Great information….
Have you tested different shade cloth % and white vs black?
Have u checked the temperature under the shade cloth versus on the outside.
Love your posts this year about the shade cloth. I am in Texas zone 8a and I swear by them. I really love the tunnel you built and I plan to try to build one next year. The summers here the last 2 years I would not have been able to keep anything alive without the shade cloth. I am hoping that it works to get some fall veg to take off this season, but I need to wait another few weeks until our heat breaks a little bit more even with the shade over the raised beds.
Love your billy goat comment!!! Lol
TY
What fruit trees bud early/are you having to use shade cloth on? Am planting my first apple trees as soon as it gets cooler (we're currently having a heat wave here in AL), wondering if I should plan on covering them…
Great info@
Do you use pressure treated wood for some of those beds or regular kiln dried? Looking to expand my garden and cinder blocks have gotten way too expensive!!! I love your videos by the way, thanks for sharing your advice!
I made a hoop house in the spring to protect my broccoli and when I pulled it off, I had a white fly infestation. Keep you eye on it underneath.
Love your videos, Question where did you get your strawbales from? I live in Hampstead, NC
In Phoenix, my garden couldn’t survive without multiple drip watering a day and very heavy duty shade cloth or just full shade essentially hiding them from the intense sun. I’ve since moved to central AL and I bought a poly tunnel and slapped some shade cloth on it in May, my tomatoes have no disease and are 12ft tall with no end in sight👌 while my larger outdoor garden looks like a bomb went off. The fruit tree tip is killer TY!
I discovered this last year. This spring was the first year I had a great spinach harvest!
This explains why my container tomato plant stalled in the full sun but when I moved it to a shadier place it started producing again! Going to get these cloths for my new garden beds. The beds have insect cloths, and greenhouse plastic – now I will add shade cloth for a hopefully perfect trifecta!
Thanks for sharing, great info.
This is a sill question, but is the medium shade cloth sheer enough to water through so the shade cloth doesn't need to be removed and reattached every time I water? I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. And your lessons learned.
So satisfying. You inspired me to continue with my Channel 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Hotter than a billygoat with a blow torch🥵🤣🤣
Can you do a video on container gardening? Also , have you ever tried wicking beds?
Your banana plants are doing fantastic
Finally a gardener elaborating more on the shade cloth, which has been a huge asset and advanced my garden this season! I have grown to love your channel and I've been tuning in to regularly …I appreciate the information you've been sharing in a delightfully energetic way!
Toilet paper roll on the tail…Dale's canine dignity has been maligned.🤣
Great video. I’m in the Phx desert and use it in summer but never thought about using it to get a jump start on fall crops.
Maybe I'm blind but I couldn't spot the difference between the tarps on Amazon. I want to the websites you listed for the medium & heavy duty shade tarps and couldn't find where it said if the item was heavy or medium duty. What should I be looking for that tells me this?
Appreciate the hack, your thorough explanation, demonstration and links. The only con is these will destroy the dream of a cute little backyard/front yard/balcony garden for some of us 😢 I know some won’t or don’t need to care because they have space but I’m here urban gardening in a row home with close neighbors. 😅 but anyway, healthy crops is the important thing
I live in Southern California, and I use shade cloth to protect my plants from the high UV from the sun. And thanks to it, its saved my plants and I don't have to water them as much.
Billy goat with a blow torch?! 🤣🤣
Used shade cloth for the first time this year over our blackberries. Built a PVC structure for bird netting then put the shade cloth over the top. Have had the biggest and longest berry harvest ever with no bird issues and no sunburned berries. 👍🏻👍🏻
Do you think the shade cloth will deprived the plants of sunlight, especially the heavy duty brand?
Your channel has taught me so much! Loving all the Amazon deals you post too, glad I can help support the channel that way.
I grow cucumbers up my sunflowers and it partially Shades them enough to keep production good
So for me here in Germany (Karlsruhe in the south west), I do not know which zone we have. In Germany we are not talking about zones at all🤔
In the summers we only have short periods where I could use the shade cloth.
But it might help for the over winter veg. in the spring to not go into flower too early.
But my girlfriend says that I am crazy spending so much money in gardening tools.
She says, it would be less expensive to buy all the veggies.
I love your site you have taught me so much. I followed you guide on how to plant tomatoes and my results have been awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
in my frost free climate i've been treating a year as 3 or 4 crop cycles, with only a few veggies being suitable for year round production.
some of this may not align as imagined, thanks in part to a lack of sophistication that farmers have a knack for.
i'm as guilty as the next person for not looking up air/soil temperature records for my locality, and planting mostly according to the rough season based seed packet guidelines, which are very coarse guidelines.
larger garden vegetable row areas are more difficult to set up a suitable shadecloth structure for.
I have several squash and cucumbers growing in grow bags in full Virginia sun, and they have been really struggling this summer. After watching your videos on using shade cloth to protect your garden, I ordered some shade cloth and set it up over the plants this weekend. Wow, what a difference that shade cloth has made! The plants aren't showing any signs of stress now, and I believe the shade cloth is helping to slow evaporation from the grow bags, so I can go an extra day between waterings now. Thank you so much!🌱🏵😀
Thanks for the shearing