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Not liking the heat wave that’s coming. I think I planted all my stuff way too late
I'm worried so many plants are going to get burnt leaves
maybe I can cover them with an old sheet when the sun is directly on them
Yeah, or maybe some shade cloth?
There are shade cloth triangles you can stretch over an area tying at the corners but you need something to tie it to like a fence. If you don’t you can make a temporary box frame of pipes and drape a sheet over.
I have a cat enclosure I could use for the purpose but it’s too small to use with how I spaced the pumpkins out in the ground. And the tomatoes with their stakes are too tall.
If I could have prepared better and had more money I would have had some kind of plan. I don’t really have the time or energy to sort it out beyond pulling the smaller pots in and giving the bigger/in ground plants water -_-