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| "Protecting fruit from the sun" |
Like the light side of the moon, tomatoes still hanging on the vine this time of year and facing the afternoon sun often look bleached. Using UC Master Gardener Handbook as a resource - the term given for that condition is "solar yellowing." The cause, it said, is not only heat that regularly exceeds 85 degrees but high light intensity.
Scott Stoddard, vegetable farm advisor for Madera and Merced Counties does not call it anything exotic either; he calls the condition "sunburn." |
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