Houseplants during extreme heat are essential for their health and well-being. To ensure their health, it is crucial to adjust their watering routine, manage sunlight, fertilize regularly, repot plants if necessary, control humidity, rotate plants, and avoid fertilizer in dry soil.
To protect plants from heat and sun, use shade cloth, row covers, shade structures, planting near tall crops, mulching, windbreaks, and avoiding fertilizer in dry soil. Slowly acclimate plants to different light situations than the one they are in, as the best prevention is to slowly acclimate them to a different light situation.
Watering plants correctly is essential, with daily checks on soil and deep soakings being better than daily sprinkles. Rotate plants every few days to ensure all sides receive equal sunlight, preventing uneven growth and maintaining a well-balanced plant.
To avoid heat stress, water plants the right way, skip fertilizing, avoid pruning, provide temporary shade, and mulch. Avoid direct sunlight, as most indoor plants do not tolerate it. Water frequently, keep plants out of sunny windows, and consider using a cactus. Water plants in the early morning or evening when the sun is not as strong to avoid plant burn and water evaporation.
In summary, houseplants need proper care during extreme heat to maintain their health and well-being. By following these tips, you can help your plants thrive in hot weather and protect them from irreversible damage.
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Great article, thank you. We live in Tucson, AZ…..let’s talk about HEAT and zero humidity! Right now we are running in the low 100’s with 9% humidity and NO rain in sight. Being a new gardener here it’s been a lesson in patience and frustration trying to keep crops alive. Shade cloth, deep mulch and lots of water and organic fertilizer have been our “go to” items. Luckily we can grow year round here with a greenhouse in use during the cold months. The best advice you gave is mulch…it’s a miracle to those that have never used it!
Last summer wasn’t the first time we’ve seen that kind of heat in the PNW. I remember well a summer in Seattle when I was a kid that was evenly brutally hot. We don’t have global warming. We have geoengineering causing most of the issues we see including contamination of our ground water with aluminum, barium and strontium (the few contaminants in my spring water that cannot keep out surface water contamination). We had snow in April. THAT has not happened in my lifetime. All that said, thanks for the tips. They are very much appreciated.
We are avid gardeners and yet no expert or book has ever defined what watering deeply actually means. Does it mean 30 seconds per plant, one minute per bed? It has never been clear, and I worry I’m wasting water by overdoing it. All of your advice is a good reminder for experienced gardeners as well as new ones. We mulch constantly, and definitely only save seed for varieties that survive well as the weather continues to punish us. Another reason why it’s so important to save seed. We must be doing something right, because so far no wilting and we have lettuce still going strong. Thank you for the content and reminder to stay safe.
Records being broken this year. Way up in northern Illinois we experienced 105 in June. Anything I had on rollers was moved around the deck chasing after the shade. Thankfully nothing died but it was certainly a shock to the plants going from a rainy spring to intense summer so suddenly. I even tossed a few ice cubes into the tomato pots. Ground cherries on the other hand couldn’t get enough of the heat and their growth increased drastically!
Very hot in south central Pennsylvania here on the Frederick Maryland state line! Jeff, I lost all my cabbage plants to green worms, used need mixture in early evening, thanks to husband who thinks I’m crazy for trying to have food for what’s happening, he changed his mind after I bought all materials…
Hello Jeff, great info as always. I live in south west Missouri US in zone 6b we have been with out rain for about 5 weeks now. I grow everything in tubs because of the rocks, you can’t get a shovel in the ground. This year I have had too put up shade cloth and mulch with straw and it’s doing great temp’s have been in mid to upper 90’s with heat indexes well over the 100’s everything is doing fine so far.
With have had 2 sand storms from North Africa reach us in the UK. The South East of England, inc London has been soo dry. I have been terribly ill the last two/ three weeks with high pollen counts. The dust is a major factor too. I haven’t been able to breath through my nose as i already have pre existing sinus and asthma problems. Hubby is away this weekend so it’s just our child and I, so i might wear a mask and chop up some more of the hay we bought for the mushroom bed on the grass and then mulch the containers more. Our courgettes are less productive than expected and even the succession ones are struggling this year. Doing it on the grass will also hide the bald patches and hopefully leave any seeds behind. I think in 2018, it was so hot an dry, like 34c for a week, we ended up with a huge deep crack in our clay lawn! Picking up our kid from school today, we walked past a brook that smelt awful. This stream leads to the Thames River. It usually has fish, shrimp, dragon flies and many other species of wildlife. We haven’t seen any herons or ducks this year, which usually stop off on our roof! I have already moved most of my first early potatoes into the shade. We have some washing up bowls that we can use. Normally we work as a team with entertaining our only child and caring for the garden. Fingers crossed i can persuade our kid to help this weekend and get them in the mood for planting, rather than just harvesting!
Excellent information. If everyone followed your instructions, they will be good to 🤔grow.. or go.. well, you get it! That lower soil temp is golden. Soil microbiology and the nutrient/water transfer- stops when it’s to hot- growing stops. Just like us, we become couch potatoes when it’s hot. Everything underground does the same unless it’s cool and moist 77-86F (25 to 30C). Happy buggies, under the soil, will stay working away. The benefit is continued growth of our plants.. Yes, please. 😊
Hot in 9B CA. I grow our garden in elevated raised beds (back issues). My husband made covers for them (wish I could share pics) and I stapled pest covers cloth on them, the covers, which are hinged to the planters are great. This prevents the neighbors cats and other pests. Then I cover them with 40% shade cloth. Not all my planters have the covers. The tomatoes, pole beans, zucchini I struggle with.
More and more gardeners are complaining about wilting plants in the sun and heat. Many plants are dying, many are not producing anything, and others just look sad. The sun down here in Florida has been causing all kinds of issues with my potted tomatoes and beans, as well as a new lilac bush I got, bred for 9/10 zone. So I have made great efforts to keep them in the mostly shade, around a tree and in the dappled shade of other trees. They seem to like that. I lost my zucchini plants to the sun and wind. I may replant. And I have at least one horn worm that has decimated a few tomato plants. Can’t find them, though. But we may have to look really hard at shade cloths, shade covers and the like for our plants. As inconvenient and often unsightly they are, if we are going to protect the plants, I don’t know if we have a choice. I also see drip irrigation in our future, even more so than now. Mulch. And more mulch. We still have time to replant some vegetables or whatever before fall, and we should do that, taking care to utilize whatever shade we have for those plants that can grow in partial shade. It’s strange that other bushes/trees don’t seem to be affected, although I hear stories from other areas that they are seeing tree damage.
One of my container raspberries got scorched when I was working away from home during a recent heat wave and my husband missed watering it for a day and a half (because it was so hot he just didn’t go outside those days). I came home and it looked dead. I was so upset since its over a year old and I kept it alive all through winter inside my enclosed porch. I couldn’t give up on it so I really soaked it, got a short wire tomato cage to hold it up better and have been pruning the dead leaves off gradually for the past two weeks. Thankfully I see new leaves sprouting from the primary canes from this year so hopefully there’s enough time left for it to recover enough to get through another winter.
Have just been to Wilko,UK…. And got some protection fleece. If I use it like an umbrella for the crops,on bamboo sticks and bottles and use it to create shade,is that ok? I don’t want to use it to wrap the crops to keep them warm…but to create shade as my garden is south facing so 90% doesn’t get any shade at all. Down the side does.but in the main growing area it doesn’t. The tomatoes are saying it’s hot 25c here daily and 14c at night so warm at night. The stuff in the green house, watermelon and cucumber is growing amazing…no fruit yet but new plants,only been out 4 weeks. Got a new cucumber today so gonna try that and got a thing of mint to grow for £1 which is very cheap. If I had more money and time I would have brought more,and kept it for next year…. Lol
Wonderful article, so informative, thank you Could you please help me with something? I planted 4 garlic cloves in May in Cape Town (start of winter), they grew beautifully over winter, for 5 months, but then when it started heating up, they all died. We did have a few very very hot days (38 degrees Celsius), and the garlic was sitting in full sun. Was that what killed it? What do I do differently next time? Any help or advice you could give would be most appreciated
On the shade cloth, what percentage of filtering do I need for central California heat? Our summers are 100 to 112 deg for 3 months, then “cools” down to 90 in October! One of my little tomatoes that should be green, is turning yellow! Is that from the heat? I have a container garden. PS: Your voice is friendly and uplifting, and I’m really enjoying your articles! Ty. I’m a fairly new subscriber, and a new gardener! 🍅
For people who are in the US south, try wicking beds. They conserve water, are relatively easy to make, and if you don’t build huge ones, a two person job to move, if necessary, to shade. Unfortunately the heat waves are going to get worse, hotter, and last longer because we’ve driven gas guzzlers and use gas or heating oil for our homes. EPA figures show for each 1 ton vehicle (gross weight) it produces 4 TIMES it’s weight in carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Planting drought tolerant shrubs, vines like grapes, can shade your house and garden. Old fashioned gardening needs to change so we all get the foods we grow.
I try to keep my plants close to the side of the house to limit their time in the sun because I’m doing container gardening. Even with a good watering in early morning and in the dusk time their leaves are still curling up and they look like they are wilting. The fruits like my tomatoes are not maturing. My peppers have tons of peppers but they’re still little and my tomatoes are not getting bigger and not fruiting as much as they should. I haven’t gotten anything to eat out of my plants. They look so sad and I don’t know what to do. 2 days ago I went into the sun to experience what the plants are experiencing during the time that the later afternoon sun hits them. The sun is so bright, it’s like a spotlight. I realized I haven’t seen the sun that bright ever. It doesn’t feel natural. First we had way too much rain and wind like I’ve never seen before and now we have sweltering hot days. The days that we’re supposed to have rain, the rain never came.
Terrible! When I was a child, one time i put milk to plants instead of water. After the milk started fermenting, my parents were searching for days what is stinking and why and finally asked me if i did something. I told them, that they said that milk is more nourishing so i gave it to flowers… but they had to throw away most of flowers. Therefore, careful with the first trick!
Ok this is my question to you because of you great knowledge on plants, my alocasia leaf ripped a tiny bit on the stem that’s part of the big leaf. 99% of the leaf and stem is still intact. I put a little tape hold the fresh ripped part in hopes since it’s fresh, it might heal back? Can this hurt the plant more then my intentions of helping it? It’s almost like a graft in the sense it’s a rip in the stemming of the back of the leave and placed back together. Any advice on what to do or extra nutrition to aid in this? The last thing I’d want is to introduce a bacteria by doing this?
Adding bicarbonate directly to your plants without dilution can kill some plants. Also the rose in the potatoes… I’ve tried and hasn’t worked like that not even once. Honey can at times create roots in cuttings, but its not often. It certainly has never worked for me. This article lacks many vital instructions. 😕
These have all mostly been disproven, for every “Plant Hack” article there’s a article that debunks them. It’s so obvious that these are “staged,” you should never pour milk in your plant or yeast, even the banana peel water thing is sort of useless if you’re fertilizing. The only thing here that even remotely rings true is the honey thing, that can be used for propogation, it’s not a rooting hormone, but it does have natural anti-fungal/bacterial properties, or you could just use rooting hormone. Funny too how on this website all the effusive comments of praise all seem to be from bots.
1-Lait mélange a de l’eau a utiliser pour améliorer l’apparence des feuilles 2-bicarbonate à saupoudrer sur les racines pour protéger les feuilles des predateurs 3-apparence des feuilles : mélanger de la levure avec de l’eau puis verser sur la plante; 4- pelure de pommes de terre à mélanger (couper en lamelles) avec de l’eau puis laisser 2 jours; 5-tremper les tiges dans du miel puis planter sur une pomme de terre et planter, ça facilite la croissance des plantes Etc…
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