Covering my Cabbage and Broccoli for Summer Temps
Channel: Escaping The Daily Grind
Date: 28/02/2024

It is important to cover your heat sensitive crops during heat spells.  It is February and I did not imagine we would have temperatures close to 90 degrees by now.  I planted my broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower at the time I should have, however we have been getting a major heat spell.  We hit 89 degrees the day I filmed this, which was about a week ago.  And since then we have had 5 days over 80 degrees.  That is way too hot for Cruciferous veggies.  So covering them with shade cloth (30-40%) will help with that.  Now since the temperatures are so hot, im not sure if that will be enough.  But they haven't had issues yet and are growing very well currently.  I am hoping by the end of March  I should start getting good harvest from them.  That is a month away, and I am hoping we dont have even hotter temperatures by then.  Our last frost date is Usually March 16th, however it looks like it could be February 2nd this year as that was the last night we reached temps below 32 degrees.  It has been a weird year already for growing vegetables.  But we will make the best of what God hands us and hopefully we get a good harvest this year from all we are growing.  

If you want the shade cloth I purchased here is a link to the exact one I got.  They come in numerous sizes so get the one that is right for you.  The one I got was 10x12'.  - https://amzn.to/4bUZmNy