SHADE CLOTH - AMAZING Benefits: Why YOU Need it in Your Garden!

Shade cloth provides major benefits to tomatoes and many other garden crops during the hot months, when intense sun and heat reduces production.
These here are links to our other two videos on shade cloth. How to fasten it and using T-Posts to hold it up! Hope this is helpful and happy shading :)
Shade Cloth Fastening Clips
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Using T-Posts for Shade Cloth
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[@samueljaramillo4221]

I had to use shade cloth for my whole garden and it really helped. The plants couldn’t take 100%+ temp here in NM.

[@ChonkTek]

None of our vegetable and herb plants like it either!

[@julie1393]

I bought 40% a couple of months ago, but this year in Houston we're getting temps in the high 90s in May, it's not even close to the hottest part of the year! I feel I need 90% shade cloth.

[@jennifermohler1862]

Thank you for this video!!! It is so simple but when we/I have never used this method yet, it has been so informative. Im looking to make a structure over my fairly small garden to prolong the life of my tomatoes here in north texas and I think this is the way to go for sure!

[@uacegreenleecounty]

SWEET!! Let us know how it went and thank you soooo much for watching!

[@peupeuguy310]

going to try this on my small 12x 13 back yard lawn , the summer heat is torching this fescue and im not trying to over seed in the fall. Wish me luck !

[@samueljaramillo4221]

@@peupeuguy310 Good luck, the heat is terrible everywhere

[@loveydovey802]

Last season, my tomatoes burned for the first time. I'm watching all the shade videos.

[@AldousHuxley7]

Check out dane wigington thr uv is off the charts

[@cliftonborenmcreynolds8307]

What a GREAT Video!

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Thanks Cliffy

[@lorielhassani]

Yay! Someone is finally using tposts for the garden!! I am going to but everyone is like "you have to use concrete and tensioners" my grass thanks you (we are super hot here too and my grass is REALLY struggling!)

[@Tinyteacher1111]

What’s a T post? Something like the old clothes line poles?

[@lorielhassani]

@@Tinyteacher1111 no, you usually see them holding up barbed wire fence. You can USUALLY hammer them into the ground or drive them with a tpost driver, but if it's rocky, like here, you have to dig first

[@Tinyteacher1111]

@@lorielhassani Thanks! It sounds like something I could use if one were short and some tall ones. Do they make those? I suppose I could look it up! Duh! Thank you!

[@lorielhassani]

@@Tinyteacher1111 yeah they usually go up to 8 ft

[@samsdaughterdehaven9990]

Yes! I think they are great. I try to think simple first, and not have it be so complicated. Plus I usually have to do things myself and T-posts are durable.

[@bencevelin5462]

I'm down here in FL putting in a fall garden and it's scorching my plants. I ordered shadecloth but I didn't think I'd have to use it until next spring/summer. Reckon I'll have to use it year round with these solar flares kicking off all of the time. I'm now in north FL. Never had a problem in Central Florida until about 4 years ago. I thought going up to zone 8 would help but it hasn't.

[@MyBlueHouseHomestead]

Great episode. Thank you

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Thank you so much! Your feedback is super helpful and we're so glad you liked it.

[@samsdaughterdehaven9990]

I don't understand how 90% can work?? And black cloth at that? I have 4- and 50% white cloth, but I am just setting up my garden and will have to experiment and learn.

[@earthsystem]

Yeah that's what I was wondering, if he misspoke or really has 90% shade? But also he talked about positioning it to the West a bit. So maybe it is 90% that is narrow enough the plants still get plenty of sun. The shade cloth is a lifesaver for people as well as plants.

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Depends on where you are and where the crop is grown. Here, the sun is abundant and very intense from May until about the end of September. Like you said, trying and experimenting will tell you what your needs will be. Hope you find what works for you!

[@yellowbird5411]

So many gardeners this summer are saying they are not getting good results, and that drought and "flash drought" are hurting/destroying the plants. I had to move all my container plants of tomatoes and beans into dappled shade because they were just drooping by 10am. They have done very well. Making little "micro-climates" under trees, in the shade beside the house or under shade cloth seems to be the way we will have to go as home growers. I don't know how the plants out there in the field will make it, either, with no shade and no way to help the soil hold onto the water. We are going to have to change how we garden, and I'm not sure if thousands of acres are going to do well with the increased heat and drought problems out west. We may have to resort to smaller commercial plots that can be more protected.

[@uacegreenleecounty]

I've taken to planting more adapted varieties and crops.

[@mindybrown8571]

Nice video. Can you provide more information the types of grommets he used?

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Keep an eye on the channel! Thank you for the comment, it inspired us to shoot a video on that subject, which should be done in a week or two.

[@uacegreenleecounty]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3eqppali8R-Ztk Here's the link for the fasteners/grommets he used. Thank you for watching!!

[@farmingthelife524]

Nice Video!

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Thank you SO much!!!

[@tinagilmore6373]

Can you tell me where to get those grommet fasteners? My garden burned up last year, so I bought shade cloth thos yr.

[@uacegreenleecounty]

You can find them really anywhere online. The place that sells the shade cloth, in theory, should sell some fasteners but if you are looking for these, I just typed in "shade cloth fasteners" into the search engine, and found these here: www.amazon.com/ZYLJHZ-100Pcs-Shade-Cloth-Clips/dp/B0C6PWJSFY/ref=asc_df_B0C6PWJSFY/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4811064940601048983&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030169&hvtargid=pla-2281435180298&mcid=91653de8776532c996e73848f4cd7f33&hvocijid=4811064940601048983-B0C6PWJSFY-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&th=1 Also, here is our video on these fasteners specifically: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3eqppali8R-Ztk Thanks for watching!

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

He doesn't prune, yet seems to be killing it. Others claim pruning is everything.

[@uacegreenleecounty]

In the heat dense plants are cooler inside. Whetten's garden is in an area of hot summers, often well over 100 during the summer months. Tomatoes don't want to set fruit when its much over 90, so all the fruit is developing in the shade or within the cooler plant canopy.

[@Tamarind525]

@@uacegreenleecountyhe is also in a dry climate. Would pruning be recommended in 90-100 degree summers with high humidity?

[@uacegreenleecounty]

The key is temperature. Refer to above answer, it applies either way.

[@monokendo]

why 90% and not 30% or 50%?

[@uacegreenleecounty]

Depending on where you are, and how hot it gets in the summer months, some higher percentages may be more effective.

[@clwilli]

I just put up 40% in South Carolina. My tomatoes were cooking