2015 Garden Journal

BigVanVader · February 24, 2017

Oh wow thanks! Oh yeah it was very hot. I have roll up sides so I had the ends open, sides up, and tried using old cotton sheets for shade but it didn't seem to help much. I also threw muddy water on the plastic as Cole_Robbie suggested and that seemed to help more than anything. I was able to keep it below 100 most of the time but it did get up to 115, which made all my cukes curl and in general shut down my plants. This year I'm buying shade cloth because I have seen how much they help on other growers GH's.

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February 24, 2017	#11
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	Oh wow thanks! Oh yeah it was very hot. I have roll up sides so I had the ends open, sides up, and tried using old cotton sheets for shade but it didn't seem to help much. I also threw muddy water on the plastic as Cole_Robbie suggested and that seemed to help more than anything. I was able to keep it below 100 most of the time but it did get up to 115, which made all my cukes curl and in general shut down my plants. This year I'm buying shade cloth because I have seen how much they help on other growers GH's.