[RJR_38]

So my cucumbers were going well and then the past few days I noticed the edges were getting a bit crispy and it has been getting worse. My poor cucamelons are almost completely like it now so think I may have lost them they are in greenhouse style staging in the lounge in front of the south facing patio doors so they get plenty of sun. My tomatoes are loving it but I wonder if I could be burning them? In which case the only  other option is the much cooler north facing bedroom... With no real sunlight although still bright. What do you think?

[Lardman]

The picture is a little dark but it does look like they've been cooked. It's difficult this time of year but you ideally want as much light as possible but not direct sunlight on a day like today. Id be keeping those out of direct sunlight for a couple of days to see if they recover.

What a dinky flip flop 

[RJR_38]

Ok, and there was me thinking they would like the warmth and sun into the cooler and bright bedroom it is then! The tomatoes can continue to soak up the sunshine  hopefully I haven't completely killed them

The flip flops are my 'balcony' ones that I use when nipping to the blowaway and back as we have cream carpets (not my idea!) I do like a pair of funky flip flops

[snow white]

What if you keep them where they are and just lightly shade the window with netting?

[Trillium]

Yep, your babies are getting sunburned. Either shade cloth or another less sunny area until they're larger and well hardened off.

[RJR_38]

Wimpy plants! Haha. There is no way I could get away with shading the patio windows - partner would flip - he already tolerates the plants everywhere when he doesn't really 'get' gardening. Fingers crossed the cucumbers recover even if the cucamelons don't

[Goosegirl]

Just stick a few short canes into the tray and drape some shading stuff over them.

[A Reyt Tayty]

I reckon my toms are getting too much sun. The problem is getting the enough light, whilst keeping down temps and direct sun.

[gremlin]

Just come in from the greenhouse where I have found that I have scorched my 2 week old brussel sprouts -   Again 

Last year when I did exactly  the same thing I was told off on this forum for germinating brassicas in a greenhouse. But only last night the seedlings were perky and lively. Maybe it was Sat's and Sun's sunny weather that had already done it, not today's sun?

11.00pm.   Now there is a frost forecast !!  Back down the garden to put the **** things back into the greenhouse because they wont be hardened off yet....Sheeech.

[barley]

you can white wash the glass in the green house  to take the sting out of the sun or a bit of net curtain works a treat for indoor window sill plants

the sun is getting hotter and UV levels up cause I've burnt the tips of my ears today 

[gremlin]

the sun is getting hotter and UV levels up cause I've burnt the tips of my ears today 

Should you white wash your ears tomorrow just in case ?

[barley]

the sun is getting hotter and UV levels up cause I've burnt the tips of my ears today 

Should you white wash your ears tomorrow just in case ?

LOL  - will be working in my bill and ben floppy hat tomoz looking a right numpty , better than crispy ears though

[RJR_38]

I think I'm going to sow some a couple cucumbers as mine are looking decidedly sorry for themselves...

[JayG]

As someone who has failed for 3 years on the trot to get GH cukes to survive long enough to even think about fruiting I'm not exactly an expert grower  , but I am familiar with the sight of sunburnt, crispy leaves. 

I'm counting on/hoping/praying that providing some filtering of the direct sun in my GH this year will make the crucial difference, because they do seem to scorch far more readily behind glass than, say, tomatoes, no matter how much care I take not to wet the leaves and keep the local humidity as high as is practically possible.