The Heat mistake KILLING your plants!

Were in 9A with greenhouses and heat is our big struggle down here. in one of our greenhouses, we pulled out all the stops. Its angled SE to minimize solar gain. We have 50% shade cloth. Wetwall and active geothermal lines buried in the floor. One big lesson we learned the hard way is that you never put black shade cloth inside the poly. It will soak up UV radiation and release it into the grow environment as heat. If youre trying to cool things off without pulling shade cloth over the top of the house, use white or silver colored cloth.

Your plants are always amazing. Your attention to detail is fantastic. Your channel makes me want a greenhouse so much! But I can see it's a lot of work. Really enjoy watching you work though!

Happy Saturday Katy! Thank you for showing off all your hard work. As always coffee and learning on a Saturday am.

Shade is the best ,had some for 30 years and still good, great video thanks for sharing

Great video, keep up the great content.

Problem solving (on a budget) is so satisfying!

Wow beautiful…. Thank you

Hey Doug and Katy I don’t reuse those clips if you have to unclip them. The clips will be weak if you do. The little barbs are pretty delicate and won’t stay clasped once they are pulled back out. I had an entire shade cloth that blew off when they failed ( because I had removed them the previous year and reused them.) royal pain in the butt. I love the clips and still use them but I just leave them on the cloth. Take care my friends Chuck

Good idea

Very interesting to see your experience with shade cloth and the different places you incorporated it. Although we use it on the inside of one greenhouse, the use of a wet wall on the other works quite well. We only use rainwater for the wet wall and have no mineral build-up as a result. Thank you for sharing, cute calf.

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The black shade-cloth over the cross members inside the greenhouse will re-radiate infrared so the air above it gets hot which kind of defeats the purpose of installing it. It would be better to put it on the outside as you did in the other greenhouses. We find it better to use 70% shade cloth but that depends on your local climate.

Very good video. I enjoyed all the segments. Did you happen to take any before/after temperature reading with the shade cloth area? Curious how much it helped.

We keep 40% zippered on our entire house all year round. Everything grows fine. North Georgia.

I've been using 70% shade cloth in Tx, without it everything burns up fast

Wow! 4 outfit changes in one video is definitely a new record. Also, love seeing you working so hard in these videos, I really have a lot of fun while watching you. 7:57 CT 8:07 8:09 8:19 8:49 13:08 13:25

You didnt mention the PH. Do you monitor?

buen camello!!

your poor cows with those flies.......Have you tried diesel wipe, like Pete at "Just a few acres farm" uses.....he had a fly problem too but seems to have fixed that now with a diesel wipe for his cows. Also he covers the manure pile with plastic so flies can't easily breed. He has dropped the fly population dramatically.

You have numerous varieties of crops. That's keep you busy around the clock. Any body else helping you?