Alternative to shade cloth?
brumor
12 years ago
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12 years agobrumor
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Comments (4)Shade cloth won't prevent plants from drying out if they're left untended. I would find someone to water your trees while you are away. I'd also question the wisdom of leaving tropical trees outside in Zone 5 in early April untended. It may be 55 degrees at night now, but April weather is very changeable. All it would take would be a 10 degree decline in nighttime temps and some of your tropicals would get shocked, another 10 and they'd be dead......See Moreshade house out of closet maid shelving and shade cloth
Comments (13)I thought I responded a couple days ago -I guess it's gone to cyber space. Hurricane CHarley knocked down 5 huge trees on my property, there was no damage to our house or the houses next door so I considered that a warning and now have no tall trees at all. We are 11 ft above sea level and a block from a tidal canal so I am somewhat concerned about flooding although we've never had any flooding the 29 years we've been in this house. If we have a hurricane warning I can drop the shade and put the orchids on the pea gravel that's there and maybe just cover them with the shade fabric. If we have flooding,I'll have bigger concerns than my orchids. I'm going to contact the sprinkler guy and find out how realistic it would be to run a pipe to the area and put in a sprinkler head. We are allowed to use sprinkler water twice a week for four hours so it would be a nice back up water plan....See MoreAnybody use reflective shade cloth?
Comments (26)We put the new shade cloth up yesterday. It's called Chill Out and has foil strips alternating with an open weave of a clear fiber. The day before yesterday we had outside temps in the mid-70's and the greenhouse got to 114 with all of the vents open and the exhaust fan going. Yesterday it was hotter outside, mid 80's, but the greenhouse peaked out at 104. This is still too hot for plants, but it's an improvement. I'm annoyed that the greenhouse company didn't tell us what kinds of problems we would be having with a small attached glass greenhouse. They "designed" the greenhouse with what they said was plenty of venting, but they were obviously wrong. Now that we're going into fall, our outside temps should be dropping into the 60's for day and 50's at night. I have a feeling we'll have to keep the greenhouse empty in August and September, but my main reason for wanting it was to grow greens all winter and start seedlings in the spring, so I still think it was worth building it. I thought our main problem would be keeping the greenhouse warm enough not to freeze lettuce in the winter, but now I see that cooling is a bigger challenge. MJ...See More% shade cloth or poly for full sun and protection?
Comments (2)i would call the peeps at the link below and discuss with them ... search SHADE there if the link isnt direct ... NO MATTER what you use ... the plants will still need to be moved out to sun gradually ... hardened off to direct sun .... the other alternative.. is to sink the whole pot.. simply to get it out of the sun .... presuming the native soil allows the requisite drainage ... i simply put one gal pots under tall pines.. on the north side.. for very bright light.. but no direct sun ... i really wonder.. in your zone.. whether any structure might simply be too hot and stagnant.. especially at night.. for conifers .... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link...See Moremksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
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