Building a Shade Cloth Structure in the Garden | Work VLOG
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Being a gardener in the hot desert southwest, I have learned a lot about shade cloth. White shade cloth is better than black shade cloth especially if the cloth is close (within a few feet) to the plants. Black cloth filters the sun BUT it can also trap in the heat. White cloth both reflects the sun and doesn't trap in the heat. To make it easier to take the cloth on and off, attach carabiner clips to the wire and then attach the carabiner clips to the eye hooks. Support the shade cloth in the center by running wire in an X shape. This keeps the cloth from sagging in the middle. I use 50% white shade cloth and I can still grow a lot of veggies even when temps are consistently above 100. Hope that helps.
In the 60s my mom used to use old white cotton thrift store bedsheets and they worked great!
@@kathyaakananabluebird What a creative person! Our parents and grandparents couldn't just purchase these things at the store. They used what they had and found new uses for old items. I love it!
@@kathyaakananabluebird 😮 that's a Great 👍🏻 Idea 😉💭, n more Affordable n workable for someone like me, ❤😅 The Lord 🙏🏻 provides a Way in every Season of our lives Thanks for Sharing 👍🏻😊 ❣️ I 🚫 feel im defeated as I was thinking 🤔🧐😂❣️...
Great job! I live in the southwest with hugs over 110° and have shade cloth and umbrellas for that exact reason. I have to close my huge umbrella if it is going to storm. Maybe I’ll use your inspiration and have my hubby build more structures because I hate if it storms and knocks the umbrellas over onto my plants.
@@LaMoynihan1 I hope it works for you! I know what you mean about the winds. They will take those umbrellas into the next neighborhood if they aren't drawn in during a storm. 😆
Thanks Miah! This was very informative. I love how you can "pivot" on a dime and make stuff work. You saved the tomatoes and you don't even eat tomatoes. What a great guy!
Thanks for saying pivot. I now have my first guess on tomorrow's Wordle.
I am pretty sure he loves the salsa from the tomatoes though! :)
You know a lot of single parents/women could benefit from your guidance. I’ve been saying for years there should be a ministry where knowledgeable men provide diy guidance and even help for single parents. 💫 💕
Awe.. So excited to hear from Sweet Miah and his incredible wisdom & knowledge in so many areas in life, construction, animals and leading his family with His Plan!
Your labor of love for your wife is so heartwarming 😊
Perfect timing! We basically have all the supplies so this helps immensely. Miah to the rescue and so appreciated. Thank you 😊 🤍
Great job Miah!!! I love the way you are able to explain your thought process in simple terms that a non-experienced person can follow. You obviously have an engineer’s mind, but you also function as a natural teacher. Thank you so much sharing this with us.
(I am kind of jealous of your kids. They can learn so much practical knowledge from you.). My father was a general contractor and I inherited his brain, but he died when I was a baby and being a girl, no one thought to involve me in building things. But my mind is always spinning as I look at how things are built. Now, I am too old and weak to build things myself but my brain never stops. I really really enjoy your gifts. Thanks and do not ever stop giving God praise for your wonderful skills and opportunities. You are a very blessed man and a blessing to everyone around you.
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Oh Miah,you are so humble and a joy to watch.Thankyou for this tutorial .WE LOVE ROOTS AND REFUGE
My grandmother used shade cloth many years ago. She used it in California to keep the sun from being so intense on her garden and she installed it very similar to what you are doing. Many good memories brought back by your video today.
I used tennis balls to protect my shade cloth from the tops of my metal posts.
Your project is beautiful.
My husband used this same system last year for my much smaller garden and it has worked beautifully to keep my plants happy and alive. Great job Miah!
I stupidly thought at 6:30 am that maybe I should take down my shade cloth over my tomatoes. Thankfully it was short lived. I went out at 1 o’clock and it was 95 degrees. So I’m glad I still have it up.
As my husband says: Measure twice. Cut once. I love seeing the fast paced walking horsies. 😂 🐎
Hey Miah I thought we would catch more videos on your channel but we enjoy y’all both at any space ☮️❤️💡
I love Miah's attention to detail and engineering processing as he works. He also is a natural teacher, able to explain how and why something is done.
One way to tighten up the shade cloth since the post are already in would be to use an eyelet straight out the top of each post. Yes it would raise the shade cloth up by about five inches but it would allow you to pull the fabric tighter since it will also set each eyelet back by about three inches. You can get eyelets that screw into the post instead of the longer ones that go through the post.
Pool noodles cut short and put on top of the t post!
We all need a Miah❤ in our lives
Nice job Miah and Wez. The structure and wiriing you came up with to hold the shade cloth is quite amazing.
I used to own a perennial flower business and we had several of these types of structures built to keep the sun off of young and started perennials. They work great and you can get the shade clothes in a variety of sizes for the home garden needs. I currently have small shade cloths draped over my lettuce beds. Keeps them cool and extends the growing window nicely for those. Good job Miah!
Absolutely love the overhead shot of the garden! It’s just beautiful! Miah, you have done a phenomenal job with the structures and Jess with the plants! Simply stunning 💚💚💚
We live in Central TX and have the same problem. We just put eye hooks through conduit and pounded them into the ground and put clips on the sun shade to clip to the conduit hooks. We put pool noodles on the poles so they wouldn’t hit the brick on the house. It has worked for the last 2 yrs so far.
They make caps for T-posts to protect livestock from injuring themselves on them. For the cattle panels - split pool noodles.
WOW I LOVE HOW DETAIL Miah is! Such a great help omg!
Get a noodle from the pool and cut a piece for top of post!!😊
If you had a big storm coming, you could untie the 550 cords at the corners, push the cloth to the center posts (on the long sides) and wrap the cloth in cord. This way it wouldn't act as a sail at least. It will still get knocked around, but it might not get damaged anyway.
How I wish I could “borrow” you and Wez to do a few odd jobs for me…..Y’all are amazing! Jess is SO lucky to have you but I know she knows that! ❤❤❤
What you could do instead of taking it down for high winds since the cable on either side is fed through the fabric eyelets is just disconnect the four corners, slide both side of the Fabric into the middle, bunch it up and tie up with string or wire, till the storm/wind is over and then just stretch it back out and reconnect the four corners, would be a lot less work
It maybe should be removable for overwintering
I think the metal zip ties will prevent that idea.
What a wonderful & creative idea to save your plants!!😊 Good job!👍🏼
Jess is gonna love it.❤❤❤❤❤😂
Fabulous hubby saving the tomatoes that he won't eat 🍅💗
Friends that come over to dig in the dirt with ya... are the BEST! We're looking at doing this in our space also. Right now we have tomatoes growing in the shade of a Tulip Poplar that's trying to die on us. 😢 This looks good.
Daniel's steady breaths during the background music is so calming. I just sounds so real.
To prevent the net/t-post issue, I used tennis balls over the t-posts. I think it works great!! Youre doing an awesome job, guys!! 😊
I love how in the background there are cows just being cows as you work on the task.
I want a shade cloth over my driveway too. My vehicles are baking. Not to mention, too many hailstorms lately!!
Jeremiah, you are so resourceful! Great ideas and then if you see another issue, you come up with another answer! Amazing! Thank you for all your dedication and support for your beautiful wife and partner on your homestead!!❤️❤️🙏🙏. God bless always for your entire family!!
Good job guys. Thanks for sharing. Us Texas folks needs this.
Central Texas here, I use this same system in my chicken yard. The eyelets take a beating and sometimes fail but other than that it does great.
Thank you Jeremiah for another great instructional video! Always appreciated! Blessings Kiddo! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
I love how Miah and Wez take turns with the post hole digger!
Thank you, we live in Northern Nevada, lots of wind and have been trying to provide protection over our garden, this is perfect!! God bless you for sharing, stay safe.
Great video Miah!!!!!! It was a real treat to see you. You have so much talent. Keep sharing your wonderful gift that God has blessed you with.
Great project completion; thanks for sharing your innovative knowledge! Blessings to everyone 🤗🇨🇦
Great job guys,Your beautiful Jess will appreciate it and of course the Tomatoes 🇨🇦🐝👏👏👏👏🙏🩷💜🩷💜🩷
Looks great! Loved watching the cows run then stop and eat! So cute! I even think it was the goat and horses earlier in the video! Thanks!
What a beautiful project once again! You explain everything so clearly, and the end result is amazing! I'm a little bit jealous.... 💙💚
Great job Miah! It’s tough to get all the droop out of shade cloth. We’ve done many of the same things over the years, but love your posts, always learning something new! Thank you! 😊
I also use shade cloth in my western Kansas garden, but it serves a dual purpose. Not only do we get super hot in the summer (103 as I write this) we also get violent summer storms with wind and hail. I have a variety of pipe and wood structures over my vegetable and cutting garden beds. Some stay covered all of the hot months, others I can cover at a moment’s notice if a storm is coming. I use inexpensive harbor freight shade tarps, which have help up for several years use now.
That is a big piece of shade cloth! I farm in South Carolina and I assure you that if you are building a shade structure as large as what you have you would want to use a bunch of smaller shade cloths instead of a single large shade cloth. If you look at commercial shade structures they use many smaller shade cloths, not one large one. This is because a single gigantic shade cloth is like a massive sail.
It turned out great and the video was great!!
That's a great idea to keep the hot sun off them Miah, and it looks perfect with her greenhouse. This is funny though, you don't even like tomatoes. lol
Mya is just a cool guy! And quite funny😂
Reminds me of my oldest son who has a like personality.🥰
If my rebar, pvc pipe, and zip tie structure can withstand monsoon season I think your professional set up will stay in place just fine. 😊 It looks great!
He's totally building her a shade cloth tent. I need me a Miah to build me one of those. The bromance was a bonus. 😂
What a great tutorial! Us Southern dwellers do need to tame our sun a bit!
Thank you so much! My husband and I have been talking and trying to figure out the best way to cover our garden. This is very helpful, and your trouble shooting is genius!
Super helpful. Living in Vegas we are struggling to keep our garden alive. We talked about covering our whole backyard . This video is a really good step by step on how we can do this! Ty Mia
Israeli dessert agriculture has been using huge shade cloths and drip irrigation as well as breeding natural insects to help with plant growth and pest controls!!!
Good job!
YES THANK YOU MIAH ! I’m in California and it gets very hot here too for my 🍅so this is what I was asking my husband & son to do for me 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Again I Loved the drone footage ! It was awesome!! Great video Miah !
Hello. I put shade cloth on my outside gardens last year. May Jesus bless you and keep you and your family ❤️✝️
Perfect timing as I'm getting ready to put up some shade cloth. Thank you!
Miah, you are *endlessly impressive.* Great job, beautiful!
💚 Looks great Miah and Wez! Thanks for showing us your method..what a difference that will make! 🍅🍅🍅 💚
I'd like to think this project came from an idea I had planned to do for my tomato plants last year 😊 but.... your plan is far superior than what I had planned for my backyard tomato garden 😂
Great information & instruction Miah & Dave 😂
Love seeing the shared work, the friendship, and another great project. That skid-steer is amazing. Wish I had one. Ha. Tiny yard, would never work. It'll be my back that does that work. I should have bought more land.
Wow Great job!
I just moved from a cloudy, cool, coastal climate to southern Arizona. Yeah, I'll benefit from this video. :)
That is a great ideal even for cattle to give them some shade in the heat of summer. Thanks for sharing your video. ❤
I love all of the problem solving! My shade cloths are just attached to the top of my cattle panels, so last year I ended up with tomatoes laying on top of the shade cloth! This is something to aspire to in future.
I just covered my eggplants and a strawberry bed with shade cloth a couple weeks ago. My eggplants look happy again. They'd stopped putting on blooms. I just had T-posts to keep the cloth up. To avoid holes, I bought a pool noodle from Dollar Tree and cut off short sections. Carved out a little of the inside of the pool noodle to accommodate the shape of the T-post and jammed them on. To stop the wind from catching the cloth enough to pull it off the post, I tied twine below the base of the pool noodle to encase it in the cloth. Works like a charm.
Nice work! Just a thought for the ease of removal - use threaded chain clips to attach the shade cloth to the cable so that you can leave the cable in place. With the wire through the rivets, you will have to remove everything and reinstall it.
Jessica you are so blessed to have such a hard-working intelligent and gentle spirited man for a husband. Oh how I wish I would have had one in my life instead of the 2 jerks I picked, lol. Am 74 now so I guess finding someone like Maiha is out of realm of possibilities. Love your channel. Happy summer to your family from mine.
Looks awesome!!
You are an excellent teacher, thank you. I learned a lot, will be able to apply the knowledge
This was excellent thank you!!! I’m Oklahoma and the heat and wind are brutal. I need something like this over my backyard garden. This really helped give me some ideas ❤️❤️
Flex Seal the top of the tpost. Can give you room, to catch before heavy damage, in case a cable or wind prob. Can also duck or gorilla tape your eyelets connected at the post to give them more strength in case of a failure.
Great job Miah!
Great addition! It'll be much more pleasant for Jess to harvest💚
Great video Miah. Love how you problem solve on the fly and share your thought process.
So well done Miah and Wes/David. Brilliant idea!!!!!
I wish I had seen this earlier! I just threw the shade cloth over my T posts and cattle panels. I put cups over the T posts, not thinking about the actual cattle panel itself, and it shredded my shade cloth. Lesson learned for next year! Thank you for showing us this.
Slice a pool noodle open and press it onto the cattle panel. Cut pieces for the T Posts tops. No more sharp edges.
This is timely. I just covered my crops with shade cloth. The sun is just so intense!
It came out great, and gave me some useful info. Thanks!
Thank you Miah🤗.
Your application is now permanent than I'm looking for but I'm glad you shared what you did to give me ideas. 💞
May blessings as always.
I just raised 5 pop up canopy frames and wired and staked to as deep as possible because Arizona is granite and clay. So i use raised beds and grow bags. It survived the first monsoon storm and the rain gets through fine. 40 percent made a huge difference in the health of my garden.
Looks great too
Very timely for my garden. Just purchased shade cloth for the first time. Thank you
This is our 2nd year with shade cloth. Our garden is more squared. We basically used the same set up, but to help with the sag we ran diagonal tension wires from the four corners, too. Shade cloth makes such a difference in the southern plains.
Excellent design Jeremiah. Lol...i choose my hardware the same way. You definitely are a perfectionist as i would have just filed the top of the T posts smooth and paint several coats of enamel fingernail polish on them 😊. The extra mile you go to on your projects are an inspiration i must say. Love watching your projects, you explain everything plain and simple. Easy to follow instructions 😊😊. Great job on thiscone. It looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing it. God bless you and the family. ❤❤
I have a massive sycamore tree on my south side that protects my main garden. Very fortunate in that. Miah u r a mechanical dream. My dad was a trim carpenter & would have put u to work😁. Unfortunately I don’t hav dad or u so I’m just gonna put some shade cloth and pool noodles to work on the trellises if need be. Supposed to get to 102* today. I put in soaker hoses & doubled the mulch this morning. Love your work💜
Shade cloth posts… I see solar lanterns in your future
Would make for even lovelier evening strolls around the garden 😍
Thank you for sharing this awesome project!
Good job Jeremiah! Very informative. I too am kinda surprised it catches as much wind as it does. Well done!!
Lovely result!! With record breaking temps every summer everybody growing tomatoes in the south is going to need this type of shading in their gardens, very clever!🫶
My back yard garden is considerably smaller so we just used the frame of a large pop up and draped the shade cloth over but I like this too for aesthetics
you can always put tennis-balls on the T-post ends. That should keep it from catching.
First time viewer. This is my first using shade cloth. I had to use what was on hand, so I used weed barrier (i had rolls set back). It's not pretty, but I clipped it to my plastic tposts (I use these primarily for support to my climbers) and its working. Excessive sun blocked, water & air get through. Biggest challenge has been keeping it secured when the winds get high. After 8 years I'm still learning, still improvising and loving every minute. Your calm approach and the detail you work with is very inspiring. Thank you.
Hey Miah! We are getting ready to do this ourselves! Very timely! Thank you!❤
Love to see you Miah! Great job on the shade cloth… now I know what to do for my dahlias and maters here in west Tn. Jess is a llllucckky girl!!!
Woah I bet that auger is really handy to have on the farm!
I probably would’ve gotten some high quality carabiners on the ends of each of the tensioners so that you could just loosen them and take it down quickly in the case of bad weather.
Love your tutorial Miah. I have one I put up last year that is more crude with zip ties. I found the sagging an issue too. My solution (because mine is a much smaller ) was an umbrella bracketed to one of my mt raised wood beds. Love your cables and your repair for the sagging. Jess is happy. ❤