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Shade Cloth for Tomatoes?
Hiya,
I tried Googling and just didn't find what I was looking for. I live in the high desert of New Mexico and tried to grow tomatoes last year. What a failure. Leaves shriveled and no fruit to speak of. Finally gave up about 1/2 way through the summer. Other tomato plants that were on the patio in shade, did very well. I'm thinking I might need to provide some shade for the ones in the garden (there is no shade at all). I was thinking of putting up some shade cloth but am not sure of the type to use. The local Lowes/HD carry the cloth but it's like rated at 75% shading. That seems to be too high but not sure. What sort of rating on shade cloth should I be looking for to grow my tomatoes? I grew cucumbers last year and they did better and my green chile did very well (of course that stuff loves full time sun!). The sun in the area, due to the altitude, is very strong (in fact ABQ was rated as the skin cancer capital of the world some time ago!). Thanks for any help! Cheers, cc |
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Shade Cloth for Tomatoes?
You can always use strips of it.
From: DigitalVinyl Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Reply-To: Newsgroups: rec.gardens Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:43:26 GMT Subject: Shade Cloth for Tomatoes? (James Cubby Culbertson) wrote: Hiya, I tried Googling and just didn't find what I was looking for. I live in the high desert of New Mexico and tried to grow tomatoes last year. What a failure. Leaves shriveled and no fruit to speak of. Finally gave up about 1/2 way through the summer. Other tomato plants that were on the patio in shade, did very well. I'm thinking I might need to provide some shade for the ones in the garden (there is no shade at all). I was thinking of putting up some shade cloth but am not sure of the type to use. The local Lowes/HD carry the cloth but it's like rated at 75% shading. That seems to be too high but not sure. What sort of rating on shade cloth should I be looking for to grow my tomatoes? I grew cucumbers last year and they did better and my green chile did very well (of course that stuff loves full time sun!). The sun in the area, due to the altitude, is very strong (in fact ABQ was rated as the skin cancer capital of the world some time ago!). Thanks for any help! Cheers, cc If you use tomato cages you might consider laying a trellis across the top. This would shade it from the direct overhead sun--strongest kind. I think the one I bought was from www.gardeners.com and it was 80-85%. 75% might not be too much for the height of summer. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 2nd year gardener |
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