What I mean is, do you get better crop yield in one year and a year later you don’t get much depending on how bad or good the season was?
I’m at zone 7 UK if that helps. We’ve just started to try gardening this year and the summer season has been scorching most of the time and with autumn rolling in it’s still fairly warm but not sunny.
If you are a ‘set it and forget it’ type of person, then yeah, it’ll be hit or miss. Heck, even if you are active and engaged in your garden, the first few seasons can be hit or miss because you are learning your climate and how to adapt to fluctuations. Once you understand how to cope, it’ll be hit after hit - at least for the majority of your crop.
The strawberries we’re growing seems to be fine, but the cucumbers and courgettes seem to be struggling, some courgettes grew fine but they were on the smaller size. The melons are starting to grow but it’s just a wait and see kind of situation if it actually grows or not.
I guess the takeaway here is to keep trying I guess and hope the next year’s seasons are better. Thank you.
Trying what? You mentioned before things were getting scorched, did you set up some shade cloth or the like?
No we didn’t have the chance to set up any shade cloths, should we have done so? I know you can set them up during colder seasons but I dunno much if you could during hotter seasons also.
Shade cloths are for hot seasons, hence “shade” in the name. They protect your crops from the sun and can help with pest damage as well. They come in a variety of different shades depending on how much light you want to let through. You can use them during the cold seasons but there are better products that are specific to those seasons, such as cloths that don’t block much sun but hold the heat in.