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
Great video. Do the shade cloths stay in place during harsh rain and wind storms? Do you keep them in place or take them down?
I garden in the front yard in a subdivision due to lack of sun in backyard . In two areas of front yard, I have peach tree and American redbud, and myrtle and my house. These protect 7 of my small raised beds. Cukes are thriving, peppers under shade of house need earlier shade but are thrivi g due to shade,the ones under shade of tree in by 4 pm are thriving- as well as cukes, basil( has tried to bolt early on before cukes leafed out) beans, more cukes, even beets and onions! Plants under American Redbud need more water due to tree roots, but thrive: peppers, cukes, tomatoes, basils, parsle( bolted early on before shade grew) andmarigolds….Loving the shade here is zone 7b north georgia! Love your channel too!!! It is to the point and typically doesn't drag on, and describes info I cannot look at when driving ( so important for the commute!!)t ❤️
Could you use bean plants or something else that grows tall, in an arch, to shade your other plants?
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Great video, silly Dale 🤣🤣🤣
Your advice is good but you talk too long and lose me every video.
I find myself fast forwarding so much of it.
Anyone else find the same ?
Roozh deeVAIR (Winter Red)
That's exactly how I make my hoops. I'm going to try growing broccoli this year using the 40% cloth. I might try the romaine. It'a awful hot here in Texas….
I was thinking of using old tents I don't use and just cover them with netting or shade cloth
I started using shade cloth in my central Texas garden a few months ago .
We have had a brutal summer so far. Many 100*+ days so far.
They were really struggling after spring . Installing the shade cloth really was a game changer. I used 70% gray shade cloth from the depot.
It allowed the plants to finish the season so I could continue harvesting , but also helped a great deal with water management and keeping the garden soil moist.
I can’t wait to get my greenhouse covered before fall in western Colorado. Have you tried white shade cloth? Sounds like it reflects the sun better to reduce the heat.
South Florida here and I've been working on two tunnels that cover 3 raised beds each. I have insect netting and shade cloth, but might consider greenhouse plastic to grow summer crops during the winter. My hoops are 3/4" EMT conduit, i needed a special bender, and it wasn't cheap but it should last forever. I'm excited to see how all of this works out when i get them finished.
Does it allow sufficient water through?
Absolutely love your videos! My favorite gardening channel! Keep up the great work brother!
Any additional strategy for keeping them secure during hurricane season? Asking from windy OBX. Or do you just take them down ahead of time?
Could be cool for us people here in Florida where it doesn’t get that cold, but super hot, to be able to swap between shade cloth and clear plastic.
We could grow stuff like peppers year round if we swapped the shade cloth for clear plastic to keep the coldest nights away.
Gona try this with my fall lettuces! Could you use this as a protective cover to protect your plants when it gets below 40 at night but not a hard freeze?
I feel like this is one of the few gardening channels that actually innovates and doesn’t just regurgitate the same boring advice everyone has heard before.
How do you ensure you’re getting enough pollinators under the shade cloth?
Wow. I'm using shade cloth ftom now onward.
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!