you Ideally want something that wind can get through, old thrift store curtains,gauze, nets.. sheets tend to become sails, so rig them well , or cut holes in them,
I have been known to sink my pots into dirt,or pile mulch around them This is in a garden, where pots keeps the pocket gophers out of plant roots It Also means they become 'not quite pots' as far as watering them goes. A bigger box full of wood chips, or peat, or something,-(*IF* there is room for such a thing.) -might fit around your pots and help keep them cooler, so they don't dry out----might even hold some extra water
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Date: 2011-06-15 12:38 am (UTC)Sometimes a shade cloth can save a garden.
you Ideally want something that wind can get through, old thrift store curtains,gauze, nets..
sheets tend to become sails, so rig them well , or cut holes in them,
I have been known to sink my pots into dirt,or pile mulch around them
This is in a garden, where pots keeps the pocket gophers out of plant roots
It Also means they become 'not quite pots' as far as watering them goes.
A bigger box full of wood chips, or peat, or something,-(*IF* there is room for such a thing.)
-might fit around your pots and help keep them cooler, so they don't dry out----might even hold some extra water