For today’s 2 minute garden tip, I show you 3 ways to use shade cloth to protect plants from heat and sun in your garden. Gardening in hot weather with a strong UV index can destroy your garden and damage plants. These three techniques protect plants from sun damage and garden heat stress.
Direct link to the 40% shade tarp used in the video: https://amzn.to/3zoCpzI
These shade cloths and shade tarps are my secret weapon to gardening in extreme heat, drought and strong sun. Even if you live in a climate with generally moderate summers, a single heat wave can cause irreversible damage to your plants. These shade tarps make gardening in a heat wave easy, and it pays to have a few on hand just in case.
If you have questions about how to use shade cloth to protect your garden, fruit trees and heat sensitive landscaping, growing a vegetable garden or growing fruit trees, want to know about the things I grow in my garden, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and “garden hacks” like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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Living in the South shade cloth is a must. I started that about 7 years ago and it saves many things that used to get fried by August.
Holly smokes you look a lot more fit from your younger self
Excellent idea – what’s the width of the TPost/conduit set up? Thinking of trying this over 2 raised beds I have & possibly make one hoop system. Thanks
Do you think 40% shade is enough for Florida zone 9b? Harbor freight sells 60% and I don't know which one to buy.
You're brilliant! The constructing part-and what gizmos to buy to accomplish the goal-are always a stumbling block for me. Thank you so much for teaching me ANOTHER great build!
Thank you!
You speak nice and clear 😊
Hey I live in southeastern North Carolina too I was wondering when do you put up your shade cloth and how long do you leave it on or do you take it down and put it back up
Great tip.
Thank you! Right to the point of subject! Thanks for sharing Very informative 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽
If you restrict the cloth from moving in wind, it'll last MUCH longer. Has yours ripped any?
How would a heavy rain effect it?
All your videos are super formative and quick and to-the-point! This one carries on that great tradition
I can’t wait to try this. Our Texas summers are a beating. Thanks for sharing.
Why didn't you put cable on top, under, on top pattern to make the sail stable instead of billowing up?
Brother, i had everything but was stuck on the “clips”. Thank you so much for linking that product. Liked and subscribed
I live in south central Texas. 60’days of triple digits. Could I use this on my lawn to protect it from the sun. Right now my Zoyia Grass looks like hay – we are in a strict water usages do you recommend me putting the shade cloth on top of my grass or on poles like you did? Thank You ! I gave a thumbs up!
Not sure the amount of shade I should provide for my blueberries in western facing garden, it typically gets pretty hot here uv index around 10 in the summer and reaching 100 degrees
Love your great advice
Excellent ideas
What size shade cloth do you have? (The 2nd suggestion)
You are so creative. Thank you so much.
Myman,i never use stainless steel cables anymore,it heats up and burns the plastic,fabric or anything it comes in touch with
I'm building the tunnel on Sunday, precisely as you did.
I have just under $300⁰⁰ in it. I didn't have the angle grinder for the rebar, as mine grew feet apparently, and so I bought another cheapo.
But, I was able to find 100-ft of the electrical conduit for about $70⁰⁰ on Amazon, a huge bag of ½" clips for $19⁰⁰, adjustible clamps for $13⁹⁹ (You're a bit high in your store on everything) but your idea, is a winner. I got the 7ft T-posts for 7.⁶⁷ each, I got 6 of them. The REBAR, I got 5 of the 10-foot sections to cut down, so I'll have 10. Finally, the 40% cloth is 12x36ft, and I got that for $59⁹⁹ . I think it is or will be sturdy. We lost about everything last year in South Texas. It was blazing hot, and despite our best efforts, a lot of water, it just didn't work out. You'd think "full sun" means just that. It doesn't say, full "South Texas Sun", which is as hot as Haites.. It aint' Missouri, we learned that too, amongst the many other, often expensive lessons down here.
Will it work in the desert?
I bought a transparent mesh tarp. Will that work
do these work on street lamps? at night the street lamps hit my garden do you think i can put one up to cover the street lighs at night from hitting my garden?
Had crazy heat here lately and stress killed my cantaloupe plants. With a cloth work to help with that what % is best 40?
Well information
I’m in the panhandle of Florida. It’s June 15, 2024 and was 100 today! I’m new to gardening and my 10 tomato plants had been doing pretty well until a week ago. They started looking wilted, so I started the drip irrigation early morning then around 5:50pm. Today, I pulled one out and disposed of it unsure if it’s stress or a wilt disease. I sprayed all of my garden w/aspirin a few days ago, ( 1 tablet to a gallon of water) my cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash and peppers aren’t being affected. Do u leave the shade cloth on when it’s this hot?
i wonder if this will work out for turf grass .. my fescue is getting torched ! 😅
How do you open up the shade cloth for when it's no longer so hot? I imagine you'd have to use clip all the tomato clips and move them to a different section so that you can gather the cover onto one side?
How did you install the pulse, are they in with cement?
I guess white shade close is more effective as it reflect sun light more effectivly.
I cannot find the steel cable or the turn buckle or the clamps used on stainless steel cable etc on your amazon store front…you really should provide a link to these things so we can easily find them. Already wasted an hour looking on your Amazon storefront. Can't waste anymore time.