Tips & Tricks to Protect Your Plants in the HOT SUMMER HEAT!

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Hi everybody. It’s Carrie with seed to spoon. It is very hot today. It is just about a hundred degrees today here in our garden. And I thought today I would talk about some tips and tricks and ways to help your plants out. Whenever you have extreme heat.

So, like I said, it’s about a hundred degrees here. I am very hot, starting to sweat a little bit out here. I should have made this video inside but anyways, I thought I would talk a few minutes just about some of the things that we do to help out our plants. One of the first things that I will tell you that is your best friend, whenever you are trying to protect your plants in the summer or the winter for that matter also is mulching.

Mulching is when you cover the base of the plant with something like wood chips, pine shavings. Just some something to help protect that base of the plant, keep the soil as moist and also as cool as possible in the summer. So mulching will definitely be your best friend. So in the summer we go through and mulch a lot of our plants by trying to make sure that we protect that soil around them.

And that way they are as moist and cool as possible. And of course, making sure your plants are plenty. Watered is always really important on these extremely hot days. I try to get out here first thing in the morning. So that way the plants get plenty of water, first thing, and I water them very deeply. So that way they have water all the way down to their roots and hopefully that mulching will help them retain a lot of that moisture.

You wanna make sure that you keep up with watering and also one tip. I will give you too, if you have the smart pots that we have we use a lot of the fabric raised beds. And for this reason, because it makes watering a lot easier. So these fabric raised beds can soak up water from below.

And a lot of the times what we’ll do with these smaller ones is we will get a kitty pool that we put on the ground. Fill it up with a couple inches of water and then place some of our more sensitive plants in there that are in some smart pots. And then let them soak up the water throughout the day.

This will really help them first to retain moisture, help, keep them cool. It’ll really help them through if you’re having any sort of issues with the heat. And if you have any sort of soaker hoses set up, this is now the time to use them. It. Help you out a lot by having constant moisture going to your plants?

Uh, again, I start, I try to do all of my watering in the morning, so that way the plants can soak up a lot of water throughout the day. Another huge tip I can give you is to you shade to your advantage. So whether that be something. Putting up a shade cloth or having a living shade wall or by simply having a lot of your plants planted on the east side of your house or some sort of structure, something like that to where it gets shaded in the afternoon time.

I have a lot of videos about using shade to our advantage. So I will link to a couple of those down in the description as well, but definitely check that out. It is worth trying because we’ve experimented a lot with it before. And I can tell you even our tomatoes who are supposed to do great with full sun all day.

Right. They do so much better here in this extreme heat. Whenever they get a little bit of shade in the afternoon. And that’s just whenever the sun is the most. Now, there are several plants that love the heat and love all of the sun. You can throw at it. those include things like okra, Southern peas, things like that.

They will thrive in any environment, but for us, even the things like tomatoes and peppers, we try our best to give them just a little bit of break in the, summer heat. Give them a little bit of shade in the late afternoon. So that way they can have a little bit of a break and. Hopefully they’ll continue fruiting for you.

Well, I hope that helps to give you some ideas and some tips for how to go about protecting your plants. If you get some extreme heat in your area, let me know if you guys have any questions at all, and hopefully your plants do okay in the heat and hopefully ours do as well. I’m gonna go inside and get myself a drink of water now, too, cuz it is hot out here.

see y’all later. Bye.