I hated to spend that much money but DH was really in favor of it. I got two 20 x 36 shade cloths. For one of them, I could have used a 20 x 25 but it was $20 more than the larger one and they are the same brand. I watched several YT videos with reviews and settled on a brand that was a little higher but more durable per two of my more respected channels. Last year all I had was some frost cloth which I used and it did help but not quite enough. Our neighbor had shade cloth and his tomatoes survived just fine. We had unrelenting temps with more days over 100 than not. Most of our days were actually over 105. We had that happen around twelve years ago and we got two years in a row like that.
I started to get 50% shade cloth but saw a video at the last minute that made a good case against using more than 40% and it made sense. They said more than 40% would block too much and prevent proper photosynthesis.
Here's the one I ended up getting: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010US4MM8/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2SV3OB16EMCVL&psc=1
I started to get 50% shade cloth but saw a video at the last minute that made a good case against using more than 40% and it made sense. They said more than 40% would block too much and prevent proper photosynthesis.
Here's the one I ended up getting: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010US4MM8/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2SV3OB16EMCVL&psc=1