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Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 11:24 pm Post subject: Shade netting.
Has/does anyone use it to protect vulnerable plants & seedlings outdoors from to much UV? Just thought I'd ask.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 11:28 pm Post subject:
I wish.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Wed May 26, 10 12:47 am Post subject:

I have a bit of heavy duty fleece, held on with clothes pegs, that is stretched over hoops of alkathene piping which is nailed to a wooden trough full of salad bits. The crops are doing very well - slow to bolt, and no flea beetle on the rocket.

I have a few 3m lengths of the fleece - one is on the above trough, one is on the spuds (till today ) to protect from frost, and one is draped over the tender babies in the greenhouse.

I do also own a roll of fine white insect/shade netting but haven't quite worked out how to attach it snugly to the frames on the raised beds without having to get a sewing machine out!! so it still sits in my shed 2 years on.

The heavy duty fleece is much easier to handle and has lasted 3 summers and 2 winters so far, with no signs of disintegration, It seems to me to be much more useful. I got it by the metre form Harrod Horticultural.

AnneandMike

Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Posts: 890
Location: Over the hill and soon to be far away

Posted: Wed May 26, 10 6:29 pm Post subject:
Use viromesh - it protects from birds and insects as well as the sun, lasts forever. Not cheap though.

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Wed May 26, 10 6:36 pm Post subject:
i use viromesh too it is expensive but well worth the money imo

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