Shade Cloth: 3 Reasons To Use Shade Cloth In Your Garden 

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thanks for noting difference in color useage. i decided on a cloth but was stumped on which color, i will order the green!

Pots can get up to 145F degrees in Arizona and turn a plant's home into an inferno. Two things I've found that work: I use umbrellas, lay them in on the ground directly in front of the pot with the handle up over the plant. But the umbrella only covers the front; so now what I'm doing is using a homemade "skirt" around the pot and use clothes pins attached to the lip of the circumference pot (if you're pot is thin this works, if it is thick then use another type of clip that opens up wider to fit). For the skirt can use a towel or long pillow case, light color. OR if you can find a ladies skirt with an elastic waistband -- or better those terrycloth bath towel coverups with an elastic waistband and some have velcro that might work better for you. Example here: www.amazon.com/Terry-Cotton-Mens-Bath-Towels/dp/B00C2C1C10 You can wet down the "skirt" anytime during the day and that helps keep the pot cool. Today was 102 degrees and my pots stayed cool. Keep the "skirt" loosely to allow air through and so it is not hugging the pot. Also try not to let the skirt (or towel or material) drag into the soil so it won't steal moisture from your plant.

I think even though the temp but not be high, that sun can be pretty brutal.

+Suzanne Ramoundos Ideally shade cloth shouldn't drape to the ground. You are right that it can actually raise the temperature under the fabric in a tunnel or hoop situation. Up to 4 degrees is what is often cited, but the specific fabric and wind play an important role and can eliminate any rise in temperature. All that is normally needed is shade from directly overhead. This cuts the most intense sun at the hottest time of day but allows for low intensity early and late day sun. You have to improvise to suit your own situation but one common solution is slanted shades. They can be straight if necessary but not ideal. In this scenario you stake up cloth much in the same way you would put up solar panels or even a fence.

+Joe Tittiger Thank you for asking. They are very easy to make and super cheap. About $0.74 each. I used the design and followed the instructions from my favorite (and only) gardening book The Mittleider Gardening Method found at MittleiderGardening.com.

+Nicholas Bilaczenko I'm sure you thought of this too, plants use about 95 percent of their water in transpiration, sweating, so make sure you are given them much more water on hot days.

+LDSPrepper I also keep a thermometer in my garden so I can see the true temperature where the plants are.

+LDSPrepper I have a New Norfolk pine next to my home, it is at least 15 meters wide at the base, I can stand in the shade of the tree on a stinking hot day and feel the cold air as it passes by to the point of feeling goose bumps. The analogy I make is air flow and circulation is an important factor in driving off stagnant summer heat when using shade cloth, Thumbs up for the video

+LDSPrepper Local municipal council has a designated green area for the community dumping of green waste, Very large machinery is brought to the green waste site and shredded , I am turning to the ;Garden of Eden; gardening methodology in part for water conservation, we have, you and I a strategy in planting vegies and fruit trees for the purpose of producing and eating food.

Global Warming and these peon denialist won't listen and accept it. I measured 119 degrees Fahrenheit in Southern Florida. No plants can thrive in that heat,even palm trees suffer,but they survive.