Description
Extreme summer heat is here—and these 5 things can help protect your garden before it’s too late. If your plants are wilting, dropping blossoms, or slowing down, every hot day can cost you fruit, growth, and harvest.
In this video, I’ll show you exactly what I do during a heat wave to cool raised beds and containers, protect flowers and developing fruit, and keep tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and squash producing so you can keep harvesting through the hottest weeks of summer.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Heat Wave? Protect Your Garden Before It’s Too Late
00:25 Best Shade Cloth for Extreme Heat
02:12 Use Natural Shade to Protect Heat-Stressed Plants
03:12 Mulch and Water the Right Way in a Heat Wave
04:06 Keep Container Plants Cool in Summer Heat
04:52 Keep Your Garden Producing Through Extreme Heat
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Learn how to protect your vegetable garden during a heat wave with the right shade cloth, strategic natural shade, cooling mulch, deep watering, and cooler container microclimates to prevent wilted plants, dropped blossoms, stalled fruit, and heat stress in tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, raised beds, and containers.