Cool crops bolt when the soil warms. Warm weather crops shut down when the soil gets too hot. Here is how you can cool the soil, save your garden production, and maximize harvesting.

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  1. Thanks so much for your support! Cheers & Thanks, Gary!

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    Peppermint Oil: https://bit.ly/43IJl9C

    Rosemary Oil: https://bit.ly/43IJl9C

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    #20 Gallon Fabric Pots (21.32 Gallons): https://bit.ly/43Hz9OA

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  2. Once again, it's about the soil. Are Brassicas heads the only tops that need more protection or also any plants that we don't want to bolt?

  3. Thanks for the tour and explanation of the reason for keeping the soil in the right temperature range. Also I'm reading and referencing both of you books on gardening.

  4. I have to plant turtle vine with my bigger potted plants to keep the pot shaded and cool here in Texas.

  5. I use old lace curtains as shade cloths. They’re white too so they reflect light. You can usually find them for free or very cheap at yard sales and church sales.

  6. I plant all my fall/spring stuff in a part shade area, 6 1/2 hours of direct sun then the the sun goes behind the trees,oh and 3 inches or wheat straw for mulch insulates the soil from the sun…

  7. I appreciate this information. I planted more tomatoes than usual and I will need to cover (eventually) some that are in constant sun.I have been researching shading ideas.

  8. Spinach bolted weks ago here in Alabama. I took my first harvest of mustard a week ago, and am hoping for a second harvest around May 15th. I planted a souithern variety, Southern Curley Mustard, this year, and am hoping it is more heat tollerant. When it is done, I have chard growing. I over planted last year, so planted less this season and hope I found a balance for this year's harvest. I just harvested two beautiful heads of colliflower, and two heads of brocolli, and have more forming heads. I just need one or two more weeks of good weather to get a decent harvest from them. The determinant tomatoes are flowering and the first tomatoes are growing. Yeah, they are producing ahead of schedule. Several of my pepper plants are fruiting too, Lunchbox Orange, Sweet Banana, Sunbright Bell, and many more are beginning to flower. The Crookneck Squash, and Lemon Squash are about to blossum with both male and female flowers. The Aunt Molly's Ground cherries are loaded with growing husks. It looks like my cat got a mole. I'm guessing it did because of the amount of digging and damage it did in my raised bed, and I still have three pea plants alive. It isn't enough for a harvest, but I can collect seeds from it for next year. Vole repellent didn't work this year. The cats aren't eating them fast enough. I know they are hunting and eating prey, because they haven't eaten any of their cat food for the past week. The sonic stakes arrived yesterday. Reviews are mixed as to whether they work, or not. Time will tell. They are supposed to work for a 96 foot radius. Most of the reviews that say they don't work are with clay soil. I put one stake into each unprotected raised bed. It is overkill and they aren't filled with Alabama red clay. They are filled to the top with compost and rotting leaves. After building layers of compost and rotting leaves for four years, I have pretty good soil that doesn't need much fertilizer. It won't be long before I have to cover my tomato plants with shade cloth. It is already heatring up.

  9. Great video thanks. Re another vid can you tell
    Me why you planted your grapes inside your cattle panel? I was going to do it on the outside. Thanks so much.

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