Posted on 07/11/2022 11:07:08 AM PDT by orsonwb
Never heard of a tomato shade cloth but I am going to look into it as my backyard, south of Houston, gets the hot hot afternoon sun. I usually grow tomatoes in the fall and into winter but then I run the risk of freezes.
Grilled okra with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Great with a little char. Texture and taste are wonderful.
But I grow weary of shelling them by hand every night but it keeps me off of the streets.
You should come down south for a change. At least you get some rain once in a while.
It has been 6 weeks now without rain. I saw some 35 miles south and 70 north but couldnt get there in time to feel it.
I feel your pain. The last decent rain we had was June 1. Before that it was in April. Not much hay growing around here. A lot of cattle at auction.
Fried okra. Pickled okra. And the Holy Grail, fried pickle okra.
Tomato cloth is pretty cool stuff. It is open weave and just cuts a small percentage of the sun, enough to take the edge off yet let plants that like full sun to grow well. It would be almost impossible to grow anything here in the Az desert without it. It can be rigged up so that the plants get full sun in just the morning for a few hours and then shade them a bit the rest of the day. :)
I guess the 11 inches we had between June 6 and 11 are supposed to do us for the full summer. That was 6 weeks of 100 degree weather ago. I must have had a perminotion and didn’t know it to sell all the cows back in the spring when they got to looking good after winter and prices were good. Glad I did.
30 minutes around dawn, another half hour just after sunset should get most of it done.
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