Gardening in hot weather is a stressful time for your plants and for the gardener! Shirley Bovshow shares 3 VITAL practices to keep your vegetable garden plants alive during a heatwave! These important “heatwave” gardening tips will protect the life of your vegetable garden plants so that they survive the scorching temperatures of summer!
Shirley starts by explaining how high temperatures affect the growth cycle of your vegetable plants: Tomatoes will stop growing and ripening after temperatures rise above 90 degrees on a consistent basis. This is a protective mechanism.
🌿Learn to read your tomato plant leaves as well as other vegetables for signs of stress. Are your plant leaves curling from the heat at the end of the day? How about first thing in the morning? Watch Shirley’s video and find out when you should REALLY worry and when you shouldn’t!
🌿Vegetable garden plants can be protected during a heatwave by 3 vital practices that Shirley explains in the video:
🌿Build an “instant” shade cloth structure to place over your vegetable plants using 4×4 posts, some outdoor shade cloth, and a staple gun! Shirley shows you step by step how to make the shade structure and how far to place the canopy over your vegetables!
🌿Place a few inches of gorilla hair mulch on your vegetable garden soil to insulate and keep it cool. Mulch also locks in moisture in the soil so that it does not dry out from the hot temperatures.
🌿Shirley shows you how to properly water your vegetable garden plants during extremely hot weather,- avoiding wetting the leaves! Watch the video and learn WHY!
Protect your vegetable garden plants during the hottest days of summer so that your plants don’t die and they can live for you to enjoy them!
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