UV Protection

For those of you that have a UV sensitive plant or that can't mist during a heat wave you may want to try this.  At Wal Mart they sell a Camo cloth in the Hunting section that looks like a fine nylon bug neting, (not Burlap, blocks too much light).  I use this to shade vines ends and newly forming female flowers.  Yesterday it was 96 in the hollow below the garden so that would make it above 100 on the garden plateau above.  I had no burning on shaded main vines yet they still received some UV for food production.


George Brooks
North Tewksbury, MA USA
Pumpkin Nuts Page
Approximately 25 miles Northwest of Boston
in the Merrimack River Valley
Zone 5N
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