How Smart Gardeners Prepare for a Heatwave

19 Replies to “How Smart Gardeners Prepare for a Heatwave”

1. Hi from Romania! In front of scorching sun here we use green net for shading special made for agriculture. MORE Water is not of great help if temp go over 30 degrees celsius.

2. great advice thank you.

3. Need solution

4. Rather than buying watering spikes as an alternative I've been filling glass wine bottles from the water butt and pushing those into the soil around my tomato plants as a drip irrigation method. They may need refilling every 1- 2 days but the coloured glass looks nice amongst the foliage and the soil is definitely staying hydrated.

5. This spring sure wasn't easy, with the endless spraying in the sky. It was horrid, never seen it to this extend

6. Take the rose off the can and water at the base of the plant, don't waste water on the leaves.

7. Watering cans akimbo: that's a professional gardener right there

8. Ah Ben, I just love you – the awesome tips, the funny and charming delivery, the entire aesthetic of your videos – everything is just a pleasant and encouraging experience, and I can honestly say it's greatly your merit that in 2 years I am actually turning into a real gardener. ❤

9. I never thought of creating shade for the plants. Sounds great. Thanks for outlining various ideas for keeping moisture around the plants when the sun gets scorching hot. We obviously do not want to lose our plants.

10. Thank you, Ben, for all the good tips. This year I'm gardening in straw bales on a new build on a windy bluff, so keeping everything happy moisture-wise is a challenge (lots of plastic wind screen (yuck!), wind cloth, and strong clips). I do wish you'd experiment with bale growing, as I'll be doing it for at least another year here, and I would value your insights. It's an easy raised bed for anyone with mobility or poor soil issues, but does have its challenges, maintaining steady moisture being one of them. Oh, and the slugs here (PacNW) are quite happy living in and eating veggies grown in straw, but then they also eat garlic and are picky about their beer.

11. *cries in Australian

12. Your videos are wonderful! Thank you for sharing your practical tips with us on such a fun way . Where did you get your large shade cloth frame for your grow box ?

13. I’m in SE Australia and couldn’t grow veg without mulch, even in compost. I use pea straw sometimes although I prefer sugar cane mulch as it’s weed seed free generally. It’s winter here and I watered last week because it’s so dry (and then we got 30mm this weekend 😂). Summer is consistently high 30s/low40s Celsius so we have to shade tomatoes. Drip irrigation is a must for summer. The joys of gardening 😊

14. I have lots of grass to cut. LOTS. But I'm always scared to use grass cuttings as mulch because of the possible seeds – I have random meadow grasses and some flower when pretty short. Plus because it's so much grass, I don't cut quite so often and because it's the kind of mixed grasses it is, not quite so short as I think many people do.

    I'm just surprised that the possibility of seeding your beds with grass from grass cuttings never seems to get mentioned.

15. With another unusually hot and dry summer ahead of us here in western Canada, this is sure to come in handy!

16. I have become the biggest fan of ollas. I live in the Rocky Mountains in the NW US where it is very dry in the summer. These ollas have helped me with my garden watering in between the twice a week overall garden watering. They have really increased my success and garden production.

17. Thank you for advocating early watering for the RIGHT reasons, not because the wet foliage will burn in the sun. This myth persists… We’ve been blessed with a wet spring, compared to very dry recent years. The plants are loving it.

18. 🥰👍🫠🥵

19. I would love to do rain barrows but I have problems with mosquitoes laying their larvae 😢

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