Garden umbrellas can be stationed near vegetable beds during hot spells to keep the sun at bay.Hang shade cloth from a line between two posts much as you would towels from a clothes line or place a section of picket fence between two stakes set the section of fence against the stakes at a 45-degree angle. Plants located on the south or west end of the garden can be protected by erecting temporary shade framework.Grapes can be protected by slipping a paper bag over fruit clusters and stapling or taping the end closed. Peaches, apples, and other fruits–even tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants–hanging on the ends of branches can be protected by placing paper or cloth sacks over them if hanging a shade cloth over the plant is not doable. ![]() Light weight row covers can block as much as 85 percent of sunlight while lowering the temperature and trapping humidity around the plants.
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