Streetlight gardening?

Question

There is huge street light above my little city backyard.
How does gardening under a streetlight effect growth? The garden is never totally dark. What plants need this cycle?

This year my tomatoes and peppers did pretty good. Flower haven't really taken too well. A lot of squash-like vines grew this year too, volunteers from my compost, they flowered a little but never fruited; because of all the light or because they maybe were a hybrid of sort that has barren seed?

Answer 1

Plants still grow quite well under a street light. I used to have my garden under our street light and it did quite well there. Squash need a specific amount of calcium in the soil to set fruit and a specific type of bee to pollenate them. Mine wouldn't set this year until I added lime to the soil and the squash bees showed up. Then when the heat wave hit, everything stopped producing. Most pollen dies when it's over 90 degrees for very long.

Answer 2

I don't think that a streetlight would produce a significant amount of light to make a difference. I think that many of your problems are due to weather. I know that in my garden the hot summer had quite an effect on many of my plants.

Answer 3

The plants don't know the streetlight from moonlight.Only a mushroom requires total darkness.