Extremes of hot, dry and windy - whew!
Mostly what I grow in mine, other than seedlings that get started indoors, then moved to the GH before planting out, is tomatoes, planted in the ground - and the main reason for that is, other than getting ripe tomatoes earlier, that where my plants always died an early death from some sort of blight or wilt (I never have actually pinned down which it is), under cover they stay healthy up until the time we get hard freezes. They grow extra-tall in the GH, no doubt in part because they aren't diseased, and because they have a longer growing time, but I suspect also because the amount of light they receive is somewhat reduced by the plastic greenhouse film. So I hate to add to that effect by using shade cloth. Most summers here it isn't so much of an issue, last summer was unusually warm - who knows what this year will bring!
