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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] SEED STARTING SHELTERS
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:00:19 -0400

On Wed, 26 May 2004 08:16:49 -0400, you wrote:

>
>I'm wondering what the rest of you do to protect your seeded plants
>and young seedlings this time of year when the hoophouse can be over
>100degrees.
>

(Our hoophouse is as yet unbuilt.) My little plants -
waiting to be transplanted to the garden - are on the deck.
It keeps raining and raining, so I'm having difficulty
getting them all transplanted to the garden.

Our deck has a railing around it, and we put woven wire
fencing across one corner of the railing (to keep the dogs
out primarily) to make a triangle-shaped area for the
plants.

I can cover either all or part of the triangle with either
clear plastic or translucent plastic or shade cloth.

I anchor the shade cloth (for example) on the railing with
bricks, so two sides of it sit there nicely anchored by
bricks. Then I fasten it to the woven wire fencing that
constitutes the third side of the triangle, using clothes
pins.

I have a large container of salad greens growing there also,
and I use the shade cloth on hot afternoons to shelter the
salad greens from the sun. This should enable me to have
lettuce right through the season.

I know my scale of growing is mini-microscopic but I include
this description just in case you - or maybe someone else -
can glean an idea from it.

Pat
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