Soil temps play an important role also with disease tolerance/resistance.
I took the soil temperature of plants that were dying and at the time it was 87 degrees F
Plants that had a living mulch are still nice and green even today.
The living mulch actually got diseased instead of the plants, in some cases.
I got an armored garden hose to bury next year to try to keep soil temps down.
Going to pump rain water through it.
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