Summer has arrived here in the desert and with it, relentless triple digit temps until October.
When it is so hot during the day and does not cool down even at night, the blossoms have a tough time setting fruit. Local experts recommend shading and spraying the plants down to give them a little relief. Others tell you to cut them back and just keep the vines alive until the weather cools and they can produce again.
In a most likely futile attempt to prolong their production,
we wrapped them with some shade cloth.
The sun still shines through, just not so intensely.
The cherry tomatoes don't seem to suffer blossom drop like the larger ones do and they are partially shaded in the afternoon, so no cover for them.
There are four plants huddled behind this cloth.
When you walk behind and into the shaded area, there is a noticeable difference in the intensity of the sun and heat. So we'll see what happens.
