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5 things You Can Do to Beat the Summer Heat in Your Garden: How to Help Tomato Plants Manage High Temperatures
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5 things You Can Do to Beat the Summer Heat in Your Garden: How to Help Tomato Plants Manage High Temperatures
https://therustedgarden.blogspot.com/2023/07/5-things-you-can-do-to-beat-summer-heat.html
With new societal advancements I can now walk through my garden and identify as a cold front.
Good tips. Amazing to see a little love to the plants as weather cools a bit. Thanks.
You may have solved an issue I observed yesterday in my garden…not with the tomatoes but with some other crops! I'm going to give them a dose of fertilizer and see whether that addresses the leaves turning lighter green as you showed!
When do you get your tomatoes in the ground? I’m in the PNW (zone 8b), but it doesn’t stay consistently over 50 degrees at night until mid-June. The packages I’ve read use last frost date as when to start inside, but if I do that, the plants end up being too big before the weather warms. I ask because I always see people in lower zones with lots of tomatoes almost ready. Does the 50 degrees nighttime really matter?
I have several Tomato plants in 5 gal. buckets (holes in bottom, gravel inside.) I have found out the hard way it wasn't getting enough water, I'm now running water in the buckets till it's full and the ones that get more sun, I refill it again. I watched your video on the brown leaves which caused me to water the heck out of them when the temps. get higher. Thanks
As hot as it is, my plants are doing pretty good. I do, also have some yellowing, but otherwise not many problems. I do see some tiny black specks on some leaves and even on some of the fruit….what is this? Disease?
Hot in the midwest too.
Supposed to be 100f and week of high 90s, here. I'm probably crazy trying to start tomatoes and peppers. I've a close water source. And mulch. Should be warm enough until Halloween. Good luck Gary!
Question: It doesn't matter that the shade cloth is hanging on the plant leaves, right? I have the same set up as you with tomatoes growing along a cattle panel. My row is 30' long and I have two shade cloths that I could drap and hang down the cattle panel but it will be sort of on the plants. I think that he what you did? We are 100+ for next 3-5 days so thinking this might be a good idea.
79* High
Hey Gary You said to measure 4-6 inches from the bottom in 5 gallons bucket and in all other videos you said 2 inches from the bottom.
Question about shade cloth color: is white better since that reflects heat and black absorbs heat? The received wisdom is that white painted roofs keep houses cooler but somehow I can't make sense of the info online regarding if the same applies to shade cloths. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for all of the tips Gary!
Even with drip irrigation it’s hard to get the right amount in every container, some flooded and some too dry
I have 40% shade cloth over garden. Is this too much?
I water with a 1 gallon watering can. That 10 seconds of spray from a hose is about a 1/2 gallon of water for me. Using the water soluble fertilizer for 9 plants in a 2 gallon watering can is about 1 quart per plant. Gary, thanks for putting me on track with these 90 + degree temps we are having.
Contrary to all this climate fearmongering, here in SW-Germany it‘s again cooling down and raining every day. Main problem is all this moisture and the problems it causes for the tomatoes. I‘m in hardiness zone 8b.
I give my plants 3 rounds of 10 seconds intervals – extra deep watering I guess 😂 I only water if there hasn't been good rain and when it's overly hot like this last week
I have 40% shade cloth over my tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and pumpkins. Huge difference!
My tomatoes just recently started growing fruit, so, nothing to pick. They are all producing lots of flowers, even in this heat. We had 100°F several days and now in the high 90's. No slowing down, and I believe it's because of the shade cloth.
So you said to pick all of the tomatoes, but what about determinate tomatoes? I have several Roma tomatoes growing for canning. But they are still green. And no more flowers.
I water the top of the bed with a wand, and then use drip to water deep. Planning to hang shade cloth this weekend also. Don't need more flowers to form, but need all the green tomatoes to ripen!
That is Gary not Carrie!
We have had crazy weather in California and I been watering every other day and it’s still not enough. Feel like the soil just doesn’t get especially the container. It drains out so quick . Can I add vermiculite? I do mulch