That depends what you plan on growing. Not all plants are happy with all day sun. You will surely need a shade cloth also. It's hot here in TN and our GHs get sun for most of the day in summer. My plants spend the warm months outdoors. Even with a shade cloth it goes over 100F in the afternoons.

Marilyn, Send me some of those Esperanza seeds, please! I like yellow flowers and that may the only thing that will survive if this drought continues. There is a "cold front" moving down into the state this afternoon. May drop w-a-y d-o-w-n into the mid-90s! Say! I'll take it. There is also a 70% chance of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow and maybe some more into the weekend. Wouldn't that be dandy? Dayle Ann, we have had the same thing happening here - when it rains, it doesn't cool down like it used to do. Just gets hotter and very steamy. Weird. In this area (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana) we will need six months of good soaker, frequent rainfalls just get the drought to stop, then another year of it to get the lakes and ponds and rivers back up to their normal levels. The governor issued heat and fire alerts again today. The fire ban continues state wide except in two counties. I am in the process of moving all my shrub roses out of my once beautiful rose garden. They will die if I don't. I am making beds for them by the patio out back so they can be watered more often. It is in the shade in the morning until 11, and then gets evening shade from the house around 4 P.M., so they will do much better there. The soil is alot more fertile and deeper. I have fought with that blasted sandy soil in the rose garden for six years. It is so dry and barren now that even the purple coneflowers are wilted and sickly. Well, by gum, enough is enough! I can set the sprinkler and water almost everything at once, thereby conserving water. It will save me having to drag 100 feet of water hose out there too. Ugh! I have 5 more roses to dig up and transplant. I was hoping to get them all moved before this rain came. I hate having become an old crippled up woman! I'm too young to have suddenly been plagued with such an old body! Pooh! Well, anyway, I will get them moved, one way or another, you can bet on that! "Inch by inch, row by row..." Take care people, and be thankful for what you may have and whatever circumstances you may find yourself. It could be worse. ~SweetAnnie4u

No tanning been done here, vegetables and flowers are struggling. I'm in the PNW - Canadian side and it is wetter and cooler than normal. Flooding is becoming a concern but forest fires are not. I think our forest-fire fighters are in Colorado right now and before that they were in northern Ontario.

I'm in Wisconsin and while it been soupy hot here, we've had lots of rain. We've had so much rain that I now have waterfront property, lol. Seriously though, there is nothing worse than a drought and hot, hot weather. I hope you get lots of moisture soon. Our lakes are finally back up to where they're supposed to be. We have had dryer than normal years lately and the lakes and rivers were down. While I'm a bit sick of all the rain we've had, I'm glad that we got it this year. BTW - the humidty has dropped and it's down to 67 while I type this. Very nice if I do say so myself.