Vegetable Heat: This Natural Product that This Gardener Sprays so as Not to See Its Fruit Burn Any More
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At the beginning of July, the neighborhood orchards appeared to be cooking in the oven. While the leaves were curling up, some fruits speckled brown overnight. Yet, a neighbor was taking out his sprayer at dawn, in the midst of a heat wave. Intrigued, many believed that he was smelling his trees or hunting mosquitoes. In reality, this discreet ritual protects his fruiters from sunburn and heat stress. How did this light mist save his crops when …
"I don't worry anymore about the heatwave": the unusual ingredient that this gardener sprays to immunize his fruits against the sun The first great heats of summer already cause the vegetable garden to suffer: leaves that hang, young tomatoes that bend, zucchini marked with brownish spots. Under the heatwave, a simple afternoon in full sun is sometimes enough to ruin weeks of care, especially on still soft fruits. Yet, some gardeners say they ap…

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