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Post by daylilydude on Apr 14, 2018 2:07:53 GMT -5
It's used by many gardeners in their gardens... are you one of them, and if so, what do you use for the shade cover, and what are you shading?
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 14, 2018 7:23:56 GMT -5
I don't use cloth but I have about a dozen 1/4 bushel wooden baskets that I use for frost protection in the Fall and also for shade on newly planted seedlings. I planted my newly hardened off head lettuce and romaine lettuce seedlings yesterday and today it will be 80° and very sunny so I put baskets over them to protect from the intense sun.
I also use these baskets over my newly planted tomato plants sometimes for the first few days if it is windy or extremely sunny and I don't feel that they are ready for it.
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Post by ahntjudy on Apr 14, 2018 7:59:08 GMT -5
I use floating row covers to protect them from sunburn when hardening off young plants on those bright sunny days...usually just covering overtop... Also use the row cover as a wind break too...Rig up some stakes and use clip clothes pins and create a mini green house... Sometimes use the row covers just after planting the young plants in ground if it's too sunny then too...
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Post by paulf on Apr 14, 2018 9:02:47 GMT -5
No real need for shade cloth here. Seedlings being hardened off just get moved into dappled shade and plants in the garden are big enough to fend for themselves by the time the sun is hot and direct enough, usually in July-August.
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Post by september on Apr 14, 2018 9:27:57 GMT -5
No need for shade cloth for garden plants, but I do put some over the south roof and south side of my greenhouse. Mostly so I can putter comfortably for various projects, because all potted plants are moved outside until fall. I do provide shade for my carrot seed until it starts to sprout. Usually a board(s) held up by small rocks on each end.
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Post by spacecase0 on Apr 14, 2018 9:44:44 GMT -5
I just planted pawpaw trees, the instructions say that full sun will kill them in the first 3 years. so I guess that I will be needing some shade cloth so they don't die
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 14, 2018 10:26:02 GMT -5
I've bought some 30% (or is it 40%?) shade cloth that I intend to use to shade my peppers from the sun this summer.
A field study in Georgia have shown that here in the Deep South bell peppers benefit from light shade. The fruits got less sunscald and anthracnose. The plants were less stressed, too. In the study the shaded peppers had fewer culls, bigger fruit, and higher overall yields.
Since sunscald and anthracnose are the two biggest causes of loss I've had with big sweet peppers, and since my pepper plants often look droopy during the hottest part of summer afternoons (even when the soil is moist) I am going to try this. I plan to put up the shade cloth next month when it get hot and the first peppers are sizing up.
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Post by guruofgardens on Apr 14, 2018 11:14:02 GMT -5
I used sunscreen fabric for the tomatoes and peppers until hail season is over, near the first of July, though we did have hail in July last year.
We're also at close to 6000', which causes sunscald to the smaller plants until they're used to it. I usually leave it on the tomato plants' cages until they overgrow the cages.
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Post by carolyn on Apr 14, 2018 20:04:10 GMT -5
I use shade cloth (aluminet-actually) on the greenhouses. mostly to reduce the heat inside the house. otherwise I use floating row cover to protect the plants in the Spring mostly.
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Post by Gianna on Apr 15, 2018 21:00:50 GMT -5
I also purchased shade cloth for my peppers this year. Last year too many fruits got scorched. I have lots of tomato cages that I intend to use as low supports. These will be stuck in the ground around the peppers with the shade cloth draped over and attached with wooden clothes pins.
I've used another type of shade cloth to cover my lettuce last summer with great affect. Hence trying it on the peppers this summer.
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Post by spike on Apr 17, 2018 9:08:06 GMT -5
I bought a roll of this stuff a couple years ago on sale for like nothing. Forgot I had it.
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Post by Gianna on Jul 12, 2018 12:02:45 GMT -5
Last week we had sudden extremely hot weather of 105F and many of my developing pepper fruits got scorched. This was after weeks (?) of thick marine layer - bright but little direct sun. It was noonish before I thought to put shade cloth over them. I'm thinking now I should cut off those that are obviously affected (with dead patches) since they will never mature properly. They'll be half peppers at best. The plants themselves still look good and seem to like it under the light shade cloth.
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