I’ve been watering everything, except the potatoes every morning. Also, I am shading stuff in the afternoon..My T squash gets that designer voile from all sides. I went and bought shade cloth..emergency run, if you will the other day to cover the greenhouse, and have a fan running most of the day, door, and window wide open to try to keep it in the low 90’s in the afternoons.
I am also watering about 3 pm. I am thinking I should buy a moisture meter, but Home Depot was out of them the other day. Only two of the smart pots I bought are tan colored. The rest are black, so I figure they get pretty hot on the plant roots.
I would think that since celery is mostly water, it needs lots of water. Even though I water my lettuce three times a day, some of it is bitter tasting. ugh.
I hope your plants recover. I have been babying mine, but when it gets really hot, I am sure my routine will wilt, just like the plants. Maybe you need a mister, although, I’m sure it’s humid there all the time, and then there’s those pesky fungal diseases..
“Even though I water my lettuce three times a day, some of it is bitter tasting. ugh.”
Three times a day, that’s a lot, I certainly haven’t been doing that. If plants can’t hold up to the high 80s we been having, they’re for sure dead when it gets to 105 here. I can see using the shady stuff then, but now, in high 80s? That celery is the pits. I don’t see how they can recover but naturally I’ll look at them tomorrow.
I’ve painted my black pots white, and my tires will be getting a coat of white too. I may even paint some flowers
or something on the pots.