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The thing about tomatoes is not the intense heat of the day so much as warm nights in a addition to warm days. This is more the reason that tomatoes thrive in greenhouses than the daytime temperature (though it helps, for sure). Here in the PNW, we just do not have the sustained, sultry nights...

We did this on our laundry-room roof, which had a shed roof, when we lived in Seattle. The tomatoes were a bust, it got so hot, but it wasn't a total loss. Here's what worked. We put compost and soil in big, 5-gallon pots and placed those in a turned-over lid of a plastic trash can (as pro...