Linda's List for June 6: Early Heat Wave Alert
With a heat wave forecast for this weekend, donât forget to protect young vegetables from excessive heat. Depending where you are on the coast, temperatures might range as high as 26-30oC [79-86oF] over the weekend, dropping after Monday. While it doesnât look too prolonged, these temperatures would certainly be too hot for tiny seedlings, newly sown seeds and plants that were transplanted recentlyâthough of course, established heat loving crops, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, should enjoy it and snap out of their doldrums from the colder weather last month.
No matter how well beds are watered, at these temperatures the roots of small plants are close enough to the soil surface to fry in the midday heat. Plants large enough that their leaves shade the soil around them, are much less at risk from heat injury, however, it has been such as dry spring (despite those showers in May) that you may not realize that larger plants could be experiencing drought conditions at their roo…
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