Floating Row Cover: Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2020) #18
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Garden writer Susan Mulvihill explains what floating row cover is and how to use it to protect plants from the weather and as a barrier to keep damaging insect pests away from vegetable crops. From Susan's in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.
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To.prevent my tomatoes and peppers from freezing down to the lower 20s degrees I use a one gallon with five 1.5"holes.added to bottom for venting and let rain in.
I plant the veggie and put container over and pile dirt around to hold if days get windy.
I leave em covered for several weeks till temperature get into the 80s and they hold heat and will out grow plants left outside.
Also advoid shock and cutworms
I've done this over 30 years and will this season also.
Give it a try.
Very nicely produced and good info. Thanks!
Thank you, Andrew.
Thank you for everything. I know you for a while now, but I enjoyed this video like a new fan!
Thank you, Carol!
Thank you for sharing with the gardening community! I have my cabbage family plant planted in one bed under the row cover to protect them against the cabbage butterfly and it works great!
That is awesome!
Thanks, Susan. Yes, guard those beans, wow 30's at night. About 50's here then and going to be in the 100's next week during the day in North CA. Have 2 squash seedlings in the ground and warm days they will grow. Thanks again for the floating row cover advice.
Crazy weather!
Always so interesting to see how gardeners look for ways to protect their crops from weather and insects. A wealth of information. Thank you and I caught this video one week late, so I hope the good weather stays a while!
Yes, our weather is much improved now.
All my plants are now covered with floating row cover and I don’t know how I could manage without it, this time of year.
We have had a very cold May this year and even got some snow.
Later on when the weather change, I change this cover with a mesh cover for my brassicas and carrots.
Thanks for another great video.
Best wishes from Norway.
Thank you, Benni!
Your videos are always so informative. Yes, get those beans under cover! We have new snow on the mountains here in NE Oregon! I am so done with all this rain and cold.
So am I, Debi! Just a couple more days to endure and then (I hope), it's smooth sailing...
Just sent my husband to north 40 or home depot to make these.
We have the same weather here out side of sandpoint/CDA.
I have had everything in my greenhouse still, but they are definitely needing to get planted soon. Thank you for your videos they help so so much.
Thank you, Jamie. I'm glad you're enjoying them. Let's hope the weather improves soon!
@@SusansInTheGarden I know, I hope so also. I am new to the area and my garden needs so much work before I can plant and this rain isn't helping. Where do you get your covering. I have called north 40 and a few other stores and they dont have any?
Hi Susan, thanks for the info in this episode. Specially for the pumpkin plants. Got some in a pot, got to transplant. I use to have pumpkin and never needed to cover and I hope I don't need to this time!!!
Thanks for this video. I've had to give up on the cole family with all of the pests and if the row cover keeps them off, I will be thrilled! Stay warm.
It absolutely works! Just be sure to anchor it down along the sides. It will keep cabbage loopers, cabbage worms, diamondback moths & their larvae, and aphids away.
Your garden it's looking really great, if only we could get warmer weather 😪😪😪
Stay warm and be safe🌻🦋
Thank you! You too!
Thanks for the video. Wow, what is with this spring weather! A few days ago the forecast here (Maryland, Zone 7) was for lows around 47 and it dipped down to 42! I hadn’t covered my tomatoes or peppers but they survived. Next year I’ll be prepared with lots of row cover ready to throw over everything!
I know what you mean, Julia! This weather is really trying my patience. Hang in there.
we have cold weather here to in abbotsford bc your garden looks so tidy
Thank you. I'll be happy when the covers can come off!
nice job lookin great .i wana start my garden in uae
Hi Susan, Can you tell me the width of your cover and the length of the piping that you used for your hoops? Thank you.
Hi, Jill. Most of our raised beds are 3' wide so the floating row cover is about 7' wide to account for going up and over the hoops and down to the ground so I can anchor it. The hoops are about 5-6' long, with about a foot on each end going into the supports on the sides of the raised beds.
I notice you have some of your plants planted in the garden in their pots. Can you tell me what the reason is that you plant them in the pots into the soil ? Don't the roots get too big to be contained like that? Just curious!
Hi, Donna. I'm glad you asked. I'm growing all of our potatoes in either large pots or cloth grow bags. That's because I ran out of room in my raised beds, LOL! However, growing pots in containers works really well, as long as you use large containers like the ones I'm using. There's plenty of room for their roots and you still get a decent harvest in the fall. Using the containers is a great way to expand the footprint of one's garden.
Thank you for the info, Susan! Can you tell me the difference between using floating row covers and using clear plastic row covers for cold protection? Thank you!
Hi there. Floating row covers do not provide as much warmth as plastic. Floating row covers do breathe, though, so the plants don't overheat beneath them, if it's a really sunny day. It's all a matter of how much cold protection you need. My most recent video has additional information on them if you want to check it out: ruclips.net/video/cLHATt6Uz3E/видео.html.
Great info, never heard of this product. Do you have a video or comments on mulching? What and how much do I use when sowing seeds and delicate seedlings like carrots Y lettuce? What do you prefer for transplants tomato's, melons etc. I'm confused with the different choices. I have square foot beds. Thanks Jon
Hi, Jon. I don't put a mulch at seed-planting time. I wait until the seedlings are a few inches tall first. I mainly use grass clippings around all types of veggie plants because we don't use weed & feed or other types of herbicides on it. Other great mulches are shredded leaves and weed-free straw. Mulch is great because it helps the soil retain moisture and impedes weed growth.
Hi Susan, can you tell me where you buy your row covers online? Also, does row covers protect the crops from cutworms and slugs, etc? Thanks!
Hi there. If you do a web search on "floating row covers" you'll see all sorts of online sources for them. I've bought mine from Johnny's Selected Seeds, groworganic.com, and Harris Seeds. The row covers won't protect again cutworms and slugs because they tend to be in or around the edge of the bed already. For cutworms, you can make cutworm collars to protect seedlings for the first few weeks of their lives in the garden. For slugs, I would recommend either an organic slug bait such as Sluggo, or making a beer trap or two.
I have a large roll of material that brides walk down the aisle on. Is that the same material? It looks just like that.
No, that is different. It seems like what they walk on is sort of a white plastic. If you do a web search on "floating row cover," you'll see what it's like.
that good idea i’m leaving in indianapolis indiana is good for me in winter tell me plz
Hi there. I think you sent me an email, too. If you are wondering if floating row cover will protect your vegetable crops from the winter temperatures, it's important to understand that the majority of vegetables are annuals. This means they grow and die in the same year. So even if you could keep them warm enough, it's in their nature to die by the end of the growing season. There are some plants that you can keep growing for a bit longer (for example, lettuce, spinach, hardy kale, etc.) but lightweight row cover only provides a few degrees of frost protection. Once you have a hard frost in your area, the plants will likely die. There is a heavier type of floating row cover called a "frost blanket" but again, it just provides just a little bit more frost protection. It looks like Indianapolis is in the same hardiness zone as Spokane is (where I live), which is zone 5b/6a. Your winters will be too cold for the floating row cover to help much more than a few extra weeks. I'm sorry!
Susan's In The Garden thx for info and i’m same guy who ask info in email thx agin for info
where do you purchase your bolt of floating row cover material
Hi, Paul. Gosh, I bought it a few years back so I think it was either from Johnny's Selected Seeds, Harris Seeds, or groworganic.com.
how cold do you let it get before you use the row covers
Hi, Vivian. About 40 degrees, mainly because we're in a frost pocket.
do you use it singley or do you double it up