Wouldn't it be great if we could control (or even predict) the weather? I was forced by weird spring weather to plant almost a month late this year and face the same question as you - fruit set before heat blast?

But we can always hope and that spurred me on to plant even more than usual and would have encouraged me to buy the plant too. :)

Keep your fingers crossed.

Dave

Maybe if not, you can keep it alive long enough to get tomatoes in the fall.

I grew Sungold last year. We have a very hot, dry climate in summer (over 90f for a couple months, over 100f for a few weeks.) My Sungold never seemed to slow down.... we still had many more tomatoes than we could eat every single week of summer. I'm not sure if your humidity would change that, though.

Lolauren, it sounds like they can stand up to some heat, anyway-gives me hope. I sure do like Sungold.

I live up north, and I just transplanted my tomatoes in the garden this past weekend.

As you live in a much warmer area with a longer growing season, you should be just fine.

Plant it deeply, mulch it, and water as needed.

In fact, smaller plants seem to do better for me, and Sungold grows like crazy.

Loomis, the original poster was concerned about the summer heat wave she gets in her area. Their summer heat often causes vegetable production to shut down, especially tomatoes, for a good two months out of their summer. The plants can also get beaten up and wilty, and need to be watered tons despite producing no fruit, not a good thing in a dry state.

Some of these hot climate states actually have 2 short growing seasons. First one goes from early spring to early summer, the second starts in very late summer to late fall.

This post was edited by sjetski on Tue, May 21, 13 at 22:33