Any ideas

[veggie babe]

Welcome to TV. You live in a very interesting country, but as you say a challenge to grow tomatoes.

Neva

[mdvpc]

There are more than one Porters. There is the original one, that is the most heat-tolerant. There is Porter Improved, and I think one other one.

[dice]

One kind of shade cloth setup:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/22...d8e1f2.jpg?v=0

You can buy shade cloth from agricultural suppliers that
lets varying amounts of light through, like these:
http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies..._material.html

This is professional stuff, but I do not know what kind of
life expectancy it has. Typical transparent greenhouse plastic
for "high tunnels" here is maybe 3-6 year expected life. That
always seemed short to me, but with a wholesale business
cash flow it might still be cheaper than a more permanent
structure where the covering has a much longer useful
lifespan.

You could simply use metal window screen mesh, too, if you
could get it in wide enough rolls to do it without making a
patchwork easily destroyed by high winds. Maybe you could
test how much light it blocks with a photographer's light
meter.

Rin Tin Tin's idea of growing your own shade with some tall,
heat-loving plant is a good idea.

The main strategy for dealing with that kind of heat, though,
is growing tomatoes in winter. The shade will just let you start
them earlier in the fall and grow them later into the spring.
(I bet in mid-summer, the temperature on the north side of
a building, out of the direct sun, is still higher than what most
tomato cultivars will set fruit at.)

[amrkhalido]

lool ,, ,, thx for your comment RinTintin,, but Egypt have tons of okra ,, ,, i have a garden with lots of trees , mangos avocados banana various types of other fruits ,, so i think according to all comments i will have to plant in shade ,, and i am trying now some seeds to plant in the fall ,,
Amr

[amrkhalido]

Thank you Veggie babe

[amrkhalido]

thx mdvpc , i think the egyptian tomato is similar to that of the porter ,,
thx dice ,, the late summer fall planting and late spring is great ,, but i will have to take care of the wind ,, as these 2 seasons specially have a lot of sand storms ,, as u may know Egypt have lots of desserts ,, so i will try to support them adequately in order to evade such strong sandy wind ,,

[dice]

Hot, dry winds are a problem in the midwest US, too. One thing
that some growers do in those areas is let their plants sprawl
instead of staking them up. This keeps them lower to the
ground, with less risk of having all of the foliage stripped off
in a high wind. It is usually dry enough in those areas that slugs
and snails are not much of a problem.

One variety that does better than most in those conditions
is Sioux.

The seed vendor at the website below tends to collect
varieties that grow and produce well in hot, dry weather:
http://skyfiregardenseeds.com/#Tomatoes

I do not know whether they ship internationally (small operation),
but you could look through their list and take note of any where
"drought tolerant" or "heat tolerant" is mentioned, then look
for those same varieties at vendors that will ship to Egypt.

[amrkhalido]

this vendor looks nice ,, and yes he cant ship to Egypt ,, he have some varieties yes that can grow in heat ,, his PDF catalog is nice ,,
Thanks anyway ,, i will try some like porter and other varieties from TomatoFest i think ,
Amr