It’s almost 100 degrees out, the sun is giving a fusion powered middle finger to the region and not a bit of wilt on my squash.
These drama queens wilt when it’s 75 and sunny.
by forprojectsetc
9 Comments
gemcatcher
I need to buy a shade cloth! Your garden looks so happy
TwinkieMcSmartypants
I am not familiar with shade cloth. Can you elaborate how you use yours? Is it covering your bed 100% of the time or do you take it off/on as needed?
I have a Vego bed with trellis and a Greenstalk Vertical Planter. Wondering if this will work for me, too!
jroostu
I might need to figure this out for my yard. Wow, your leaves are so pretty.
iamhollybear
They should use this as an ad.. I’ve been saying I don’t need it but I might be sold now. Are those all peppers over on the left!?
axel4340
ugh, need to figure out a way to actually hang shade cloth in my garden. no truck so i cant easily get 10f poles. maybe i could use pvc or electric conduit?
Radiant_Device_6706
I’m zone 9 just outside of the Mohave desert. I finally got a metal 10*20 carport for $100 on amazon. Took off the cover and replaced it with 50% shade cloth. I couldn’t be happier. It’s been two years and it does’t have a tear in it. I staked it down so it can’t blow away.
67mustangguy
I have a 30% and 40% shade cloth. It helps so much. Especially with starting new plants. It makes the hardening off process so easy. To be honest i don’t really have to do anything lol. I used to start indoors now I just start under the shade cloth and there is no need to harden unless moving to the uncovered part of my garden.
smbtuckma
Hell yeah, I threw 50% shade cloth over my brassicas the first time we hit 80 in SoCal because they still weren’t ready, and they suddenly grew much faster and still haven’t bolted! The wind is the biggest battle now, sometimes it comes undone so I need to engineer a more stable set up.
mikebrooks008
Shade cloth is a total game changer! I used to lose half my veggies every summer to heat stress but since I slapped up some 40% shade cloth last year, everything looks perkier and yields are way better. I never realized how big of a difference shade cloth makes until last summer – my tomatoes used to flop over and look near-dead by noon, but with shade cloth, they actually survived the worst of the heatwave and kept producing.
9 Comments
I need to buy a shade cloth! Your garden looks so happy
I am not familiar with shade cloth. Can you elaborate how you use yours? Is it covering your bed 100% of the time or do you take it off/on as needed?
I have a Vego bed with trellis and a Greenstalk Vertical Planter. Wondering if this will work for me, too!
I might need to figure this out for my yard. Wow, your leaves are so pretty.
They should use this as an ad.. I’ve been saying I don’t need it but I might be sold now. Are those all peppers over on the left!?
ugh, need to figure out a way to actually hang shade cloth in my garden. no truck so i cant easily get 10f poles. maybe i could use pvc or electric conduit?
I’m zone 9 just outside of the Mohave desert. I finally got a metal 10*20 carport for $100 on amazon. Took off the cover and replaced it with 50% shade cloth. I couldn’t be happier. It’s been two years and it does’t have a tear in it. I staked it down so it can’t blow away.
I have a 30% and 40% shade cloth. It helps so much. Especially with starting new plants. It makes the hardening off process so easy. To be honest i don’t really have to do anything lol. I used to start indoors now I just start under the shade cloth and there is no need to harden unless moving to the uncovered part of my garden.
Hell yeah, I threw 50% shade cloth over my brassicas the first time we hit 80 in SoCal because they still weren’t ready, and they suddenly grew much faster and still haven’t bolted! The wind is the biggest battle now, sometimes it comes undone so I need to engineer a more stable set up.
Shade cloth is a total game changer! I used to lose half my veggies every summer to heat stress but since I slapped up some 40% shade cloth last year, everything looks perkier and yields are way better. I never realized how big of a difference shade cloth makes until last summer – my tomatoes used to flop over and look near-dead by noon, but with shade cloth, they actually survived the worst of the heatwave and kept producing.