Sun protection for tomatoes
I lost 2 small tomato plants this week because the sun is too hot. The problem is that I have only one tomato variety now. I had 5 Cream Sausage plants and 1 Yellow Pear. Now I have only 4 cream Sausage tomato plants in my container garden.
I search for sun protection for the other plants, and I start using big leaves from a poplar tree to make shade the hot hours after 12 a.m. The sun is so hot that burn the big poplar leaves in 2-3 hours.
Three days before, 4 Yellow Pear seeds sowed again. Maybe I ‘m crazy but I read that Yellow Pear feels good with cold weather. The autumn here is like summer in other countries the last years. So, I can experiment and see the results…
I like the idea of the popular leaves.
I think there’s still enough time to plant tomatoes, you just probably won’t get a big harvest. Does it freeze where you are? Depending on your first frost date, you may get quite a reasonable harvest as the plants will keep producing until it freezes.
That’s a shame. Is there any way you could put shade netting over them? I use it to cover seedlings when it is very hot.
@Patrick cold days start at the end of October usually and we did’t had snow the last years in my area. (the last snow I remember in my city was in 2004)
@easygardener I hope that the big leaves will work fine for shade.
Good idea with the leaves as sun protection. Surprisingly, the Sun isn’t causing me as much trouble here as tomato hornworms. They devastated my plants while I was out of town for a few days.
I lost some plants John. When the plants are small have big problem with the hot sun here.
I don’t have tomato hornworms here (or in plot) yet, I have only something who eats the leaves inside (I don’t remember the name this moment).