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This product seems more fragile than the regular Garden Fabric. The wind and the neighborhood cats had it in shreds within 2 days. If you live somewhere windy, get a heavier fabric. I can't tell you what to do about the neighborhood cats.

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This product was so useful to keep out the harsh sun rays and also to keep the bug population down.

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I used summerweight garden fabric to protect young plants from insects and to reduce heat stress caused by direct sun. The fabric allows just the right amount of light to pass through, and it does not trap enough heat to cause withering and heat stress. Rain passes right through, so you don't have to hand-water the plants as much.

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I use this for grasshopper control. It is light weight, but durable. I do have to figure out how to stake it down because we do have lots of wind.

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We used the fabric for covering blueberries which ripened as well or better under the fabric.

The main drawback was that while the fabric was long enough (20') it was far from wide enough (6') even with two lengths clothes-pinned together. A real problem as birds and beasties could easily get under it and DID. Please ask the manufacturer to provide wider widths.

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I looked all over for a summer row cloth that would reduce the summer heat and allow me to extend the life of my spring lettuce and spinach and the only place I could find it was at Gardener's Supply. I probably got another month of lettuce out of my plants because of this row cloth. I'm now using it for bug control (beetles and vineborers on summer squash plants and Kale). And when fall comes I'll use it to extend the life of producing plants. [...]. I bought the 25 ft roll which gave me options - [...]. This is a basic product that I'm using many ways and I'm glad I bought it. My garden is better for it.

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For several years after creating a new garden I had wondered why my beet and spinach seedlings disappeared soon after emerging. I thought it could be the seed was old, or my ph was off. Soon after seeing a rabbit in my unfenced garden, I decided to cover my seed with the light weight insect barrier. I had used it to prevent flea beetles from creating lace out of my eggplant leaves and to keep cabbage moths off my broccoli, but I never thought I would I use it to keep the rabbits out of my beets and spinach. It worked! I have luscious huge beets, and finally am picking spinach.

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we use this in the evening cover up our potential vegetables...so far it is working wonders....last year we lost our buds to the squirrels but this year not so. :)

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Great for deterring rabbits without harming them or the environment. Keeps crops well shaded from heat of summer

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I used this to get struggling plants through the 100+ degree heat we've been having. My plants immediately started doing better after the first day the cover was over them. I also used this to cover my fig tree (I clipped several rows of cover together like a big blanket). This is the first year that I have gotten the figs before the birds and opossums! I've taken it off now that the big harvest is over, to let the critters have the last couple of weeks' worth of fruit. Nothing like seeing a fig tree full of orioles!

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This was the only thing that allowed my cucumbers to have a chance. The first seedlings I put out were devoured by slugs or fried in the hot Alabama sun, even in early May. I put this over my next transplants until flowering, and they took off almost overnight. By the time I had to remove it (to allow the bees to pollenate), they were strong and hardy. I like that it does not block too much light or rain.

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I use the material to shade some of my hanging flowers baskets that dislike full sun all day. It also inhibits some types of insects from infesting the baskets.

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Here in Michigan we have a problem with Colorado potato beetles on our potatoes and Japanese beetles on our eggplant. I'm an organic Master Gardener, looking for ways to control the damage done by these pests without using pesticides. Potatoes and eggplants are self-pollinating so we reasoned that we can cover these plants for the entire season because the fabric allows 85% of the sunlight to enter. We will remove the fabric at harvest time. My husband fashioned half hoop supports from wire fencing and we laid this lightweight fabric over them, and secured the edges with rocks. It's too early to tell if we will be successful controlling the beetles, but we are pleasantly surprised to see the improved growth on the covered vegetable plants. It's an experiment for us, but I think it will be successful.

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We have three blueberry bushes and, although, I love birds, deer & even squirrels, we'd like a few blueberries for ourselves! I use tall stakes (I use clothes pins to add fabric around the sides.) and add the fabric and end up with blueberries for our pancakes!

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I use tomato cages to hold the cover up, and I staked it down at intervals along the row. Watering is made difficult because you have to take the cover off and then re-seal the edges so bugs don't get in. It does a great job at keeping bugs out, and my cucumber is growing without any signs of being eaten, unlike my plants (tomatoes, peppers, herbs) that are not protected by the cover.

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Covering carrots at seeding time keeps them maggot free.

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First time trying the summerweight fabric. Our potato plants are beautiful - No potato beetles!!

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I cover seedlings and young plants like beans and greens. Before your covers, my garden was a rabbit lunchroom. Now rabbit favorites are hard to get to and also protected from beetles. Cutting the cloth is difficult and size of the whole is unwieldy.

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A simple and inexpensive solution to my deer problem. Just cover to protect during those hours that the deer come to my garden to check out the local produce and uncover during my gardening hours.

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First season using this fabric. It's great! It's June and my plants are twice the size of last year already. Really helps protect my transplants from the intense sunshine. I'll keep it on all season long. Broccoli, cabbage, swiss chard, tomatoes, peppers, etc. all flourishing. I am really looking forward to our homegrown harvest this year!

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This garden fabric really comes in handy. I'm in a community garden so I'm more likely to have to deal with other peoples garden pests as well as my own. And there's also a generous amount of fabric for the price.

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Allowed me to prevent insect damage and protected my veggies from a late light frost we had. But permits enough light to pass through. I will lift it off to allow for pollination and will reapply making a tent effect because Also gives me some protection from the rabbits.

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I made a 'cage/cover' for my lettuce bed with chicken wire bands for support and covered it with the lightweight fabric. The fabric is clipped with common binder clips. Light and rain go through. The test will be how long the fabric will last (one month, so far so good.) Squirrels have moved on and my lettuce is safe!!

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cover for a raised bed garden outside santa fe nm. good protection form drying winds, small hail, bugs, etc.

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Relatively easy to use, seems to be doing some of the hard work for me-namely keeping off some pesky insects which saves me time and money.

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I have used on my Early Girl tomato plants. I hopw I do not get curly top. How long of the growing season does it need to stay on?

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Product is easy to apply and effective at protecting my lettuce from too much sun, Rabbits and other pests.

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Fairly light weight so you have to be careful putting it down...but a perfect weight for summer
I use it directly on ground. Not sure it would hold up long on supports

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Bought two packages and one provided more than enough fabric. Have had to get creative to secure it -- sticks, bricks, twist ties! Used it to protect cool weather crops from early intense sun, cover over strawberries and blueberries. Woth grow boxes I slightly lift the corner pegs and use one twist tie each to affix fabric. Draped it over vine supports or single, central bamboo stick when more height needed. Used it to keep squirrels and rabbits out of potatoes and lettuce and cats from using grow boxes as litter boxes.

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Used it last night. Cut a piece to cover the 7x4' raised bed that had the cucumber seedings as there was a possible frost. Easy to cut and lay over the bed and just as easy to fold up in the morning for another time. Will def be trying it over the arugula to try to keep those flea bugs from chewing holes in otherwise perfectly beautiful arugula.
Great stuff!

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I have 4x4 raised garden beds, and this product works well to keep the rabbits away. I cut to fit each bed I need to cover.

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I used this product in my garden to keep out bugs, birds and animals. The first day I used it, the racoons tore it to shreds. In this condition, I'm not sure that it could keep out the bugs and birds...

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Another great product!

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I built little standoff using popsicle sticks and small dowels to hold up the fabric - works great

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use to cover peonies or other ornamentals requiring less sun during hotest months. plants stay green instead of turning brown and dying. use wire around plants, secure wire or grow thru hoops with earth staples and cover with this fabric using clothes pins to secure fabric against wind. will last many seasons.

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We use this over our newly planted corn, beans and peas to keep the birds from eating the seeds. A wire hoop made from fencing material serves as a frame for the fabric. It also helps the seeds to germinate faster as we have very cool nights and this furnishes just enough protection.

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I start all of my cool-weather veggies under a cover of lightweight fabric. It keeps them warm on chilly nights, keeps the birds from digging up the seeds and kept on for a while, they greatly reduce insect pests. They can be laid directly over the rows. Most plants are strong enough to hold the fabric up. For taller plants, I lay the fabric over garden hoops or frames. Rain comes right through, but plants are shielded from wind and pests and get a solid start to healthy lives. I can't imagine gardening without this stuff. I love it!

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works great

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I placed my vegetables in planters on the patio. We made wire frames and individual covers for each planter with the row cover to keep the flying insects out. It is working well.

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I have had no need to use chemicals to repel insects on my broccoli, cauliflower and potato plants. It is so easy and I could never find a more inexpensive way to control garden pests! Plus, it has given my plants that extra protection for late freezes. Love it!

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We finally get to eat our crops and the deer don't

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this product is amazing--it is light and easy to handle--it keeps the bugs and insects out as well as the armadillo--it is withstanding the south texas winds of up to 30-40mph which is normal down here--thanks

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I've used this product for many years to keep out pests during the summer and am hoping it will deter the deer who have found great joy in sampling my veggies!

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So easy to use and if you take care, it can be used over and over again.

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I am growing vegetables organically in large and small containers on my patio this year and needed something to use to keep the bugs off young crops as long as possible. With stick props and clothes pins, I can keep the row cover on the pots, so far. We in North Texas recently experienced a week of cold, high winds, and heavy rain. Did not bother the row cover a bit.

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This is a reasonably priced floating row cover; I was unable to find one locally. I plan to use this to screen my pea seedlings from groundhogs and rabbits.

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I am an Extension Horticulturist in south Texas on the Mexico border - where bugs never rest, much less die. We have to use row cover to have a harvest of tomatoes in the spring.

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I used this product to cover my lettuce during our rainy spring to keep my greens from getting too muddy. Also used these to "hide" tomatoes from squirrels and chipmonks. It was very effective!

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I purchased this item because I didn't want the neighborhood cats to think my new square foot gardens were to be used for their litter boxes! It definitely deterred the felines and haven't had a digging rodent or animal since I installed the garden fabric! Great product!

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I am using this fabric to shade two new shrubs that are in full sun. Even though I planted them last fall, this dry hot summer with lots of wind has nearly killed the shrubs. I made a wire cage and then draped the cloth over the top of the cage and around the sides. This blocks the hot west sun and protects the shrubs from the drying wind.

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It was used to keep insect and bugs from plants and work very effective.

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Last year my pole bean beans that I grow is self watering contianers were eaten completely by Japanese beetles. This year I put the box in a 72 in frame composed of a wire shelving unit from [...]. I put the summer fabric around it and secured with fabric clips. I leave open some days for pollination. Have not had any beetles yet.

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Well made product - can use again the next year.

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I have used the heavier fabric in the garden and flower beds in the past for frost protection. I wanted to give this a try to protect my young cukes and zukes from critters and pests and still let the water and sunlight in. I like this equally as much as the heavier fabric, and I'll use that early and late season, and this in the hotter months. I have found garden fabric great to have on hand.

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I've used this fabric successfully in many ways: to protect plants from frost, to shade cool-season vegetables, to discourage insects, to repel rabbits...I even made a tent out of it so I could easily provide shade for seedlings I was hardening off. I was at a performance in a local concert hall recently and saw this fabric draped from the ceiling in big swaths, creating a beautiful decoration!

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I also use this row cover over my seedling "nursery" until plants are big enough to go into the garden. My babies are protected from heavy rain, hottest sun, and bugs. Perfect.

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Came in very handy when we started our lettuce from seed this past spring

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I used these over my newly transplanted seedlings to discourage all the critters I have in my yard. A sudden rainstorm the day after transplanting was beating the small plants into the ground, so I used a few stakes under the row cover in a tent-like fashion and it protected the weak unestablished plants. An added bonus.

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Excellent product- Have had problems in the past with Squash vine borer in New England and don't like pesticides. Used 5/8 inch PVC from Home Depot to make small tents. PVC is only a couple bucks for 10 foot lengths and the elbow fittings are .50 cents each. They stay together w/o glue. Once plants get tall enough and start to flower heavy, just remove tents.

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I use this to keep the bunnies from eating my tender young veggies. It also works well to keep the whitefly and other insects off my plants.

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This is the best to protect your early crips from leaf miners and other insects for spinach,lettuce,etc.

Can be reused and also cut to fit.

Billow when placing so it "grows" with the plants.

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This is a new experience in using this product. I have not determined the full extent of how it will benefit my gardening.

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Use to control unwanted flying bugs

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I purchased this product to keep beetles off of my bean plants. It does work well for that purpose, but it is difficult to install and after that, difficult to get under to remove any harmful insects that do manage to get in, apply fertilizers, or remove weeds. I have also noticed the plants under these covers are not thriving quite as well as the other bean plants (of the same variety) not under the row covers (I suspect due to lack of light). That said, they are doing fine and I do expect a harvest from them. I think it's definitely superior to applying pesticides, but if you have time for hand picking the harmful insects, that would be even better. I unfortunately do not have time for that so this is a pretty good solution for me.

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This light weight fabric was exactly what I needed in my urban garden to get all my plants started without the squirrels digging up the seeds. It is light enough that you can let the peas, beans, beets, and greens grow several inches and then remove it once they are less attractive to the squirrels. A word of caution- do not use it on a container as it seems to create a green slime and tropical environment and rot the seeds - perhaps not quite enough air circulation in a pot.

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We used the cover to keep the rabbits and Quail from eating our sprouting carrots and lettuce crops, it worked great, just wish I'd gotten it sooner. We will use it for a Fall crop of spinach and lettuce and hope that it will help stave off the first frosts of the season.

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I love this product. I have been using it for years. I place it over my cucumbers and squash plants in the spring to give them a chance to grow and keep the squash and cucumber beetles off of the plants. I find that doing this gives the plants a chance to grow without dying before I can get any vegetables from the plants.

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Our tomato and pepper plants were shivering when the weather turned to cold the end of May. The plant blankets helped to keep their roots warm, and they are healthy and growing. Being in the mountains, our season for growing is short. Our Summer greenhouse looks better than ever.

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I purchased this row cover with one intent in mind and have been able to use it for a multitude of others. I was attempting to thwart the multitude of marauding birds who were enjoying my fall salad greens much more than I was. I have since been able to afford a few degrees of frost protection, eliminate the need to apply pesticides and grow organically, and provide some much needed relief to the summer garden in the form of light shade to protect plants and fruit from sunscald. I'm very pleased!

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We live in the mountains and all the cabbage family grow well here.. but those cabbage moths are so destructive.. I dont have time to run around picking eggs off every leaf so I have tried this product and am extremely pleased. I grow cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower under this all season..lifting only several times to weed and cultivate. The difference between these plants and ones planted outside at the same time without the cover is unbelievable..size increased, days to maturity decreased and NO CABBAGE MOTH DAMAGE!!..this lightweight material is excellent and well worth the money.. washable and re-usable.