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DFW TX bro here, I have had this bothering me for a while. Back when I was in highschool I had a garden I put it in sunny part of the yard, like all day sun. Obviously we get to 100+ many days in the summer, plants would wilt. Healthy looking, dropped flowers, would spruce up once the sun was off of them. I had maybe one or two tomatoes out of that but I did it wrong with the soil. Didn't have a single pepper from like 15 plants. THen I tried Okra in shade, it produced, peppers and tomatoes in shade, it produced but not that many. I was still fucking off with the soil.
Now at my own house, because of sprinkler placement which I didn't want to change, the heat issue, etc, I put my plants in a shaded area that gets western light from 3ish till the sun ducks behind the house probably at 7. Fence and neighbors house blocks the AM sun and two large trees in my small backyard shade it mid day. I thought I was doing fine because of said heat issue.
TLDR: for those in the south where it gets stupid hot, how do you even mess with gardening. Direct sun before noon is safe and then from noon to like 6 is way too hot. I have a better spot with more light in the yard that I can try next year. I will have to empty out my 3 raised beds and move them.... 3cuyd. It is also on a hill. I'm just really confused as to how people do it in hot weather and I know TX isn't the only triple digit state, it's all over the midwest. If you use shade cloth is that not the same thing as shade under a tree? Am I fucked?
