In the Shade (or How to Get Your Fall Garden Going When It's Still Blazing Hot)
Posted Sep 13 2011 5:27am
Put that beach umbrella to work over tender transplants, as my fellow community gardener did!
Use a loose piece of window screen as shade cover
The temperature where I live fluctuates greatly at this time of year (last week's mild temperatures have been replaced by hot, hot, hot again), and getting those tender fall seedlings going can be tricky without a little intervention. Here are three ways to give fall crops (such as lettuce, cooking greens, radishes, turnips, beets here in zone 8a-used-to-be-7B) a little shade from the blazing mid-day sun.
See more growing tips throughout my book , but specifically on pages 121-123.
Plant in the shade of remaining tall summer plants
