How to protect outdoor grow from heavy rain?

Mari

Mari

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How to prevent from rainfalls? Is there any mesh cloth available for such job?
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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Even landscape fabric would work...I would buy the cheapest thing I could find and just get busy building a lean-to. I'm not even that handy and I think I could do it.
 
jerryb73

jerryb73

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UncleBuck said:
i've heard of "growers" constructing "greenhouses" or "carports" or using "tarps" to prevent "rain" from falling on their "plants".
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If it were raining for a long period of time wouldn't the ground be saturated anyway? So covering the top wouldn't help much? Correct me if I'm wrong this just sounds logical to me..
 
Prince4118

Prince4118

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When I grew outside I used an old collapsible canopy off a boat with some thin shade cloth, let's light threw and when the rain hits it it turns into a most,
 
jerryb73

jerryb73

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I'm confused.. If it's raining hard and has been raining hard then how is covering the top of plant going to do anything to the saturated ground?
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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Mari said:
What is this material, how much it could block the sun?
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It's called shade cloth. You can buy it in different weaves that have different levels of sun block. None of them will keep rain off your plant but they will sure help with hail.
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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jerryb73 said:
I'm confused.. If it's raining hard and has been raining hard then how is covering the top of plant going to do anything to the saturated ground?
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Your confusion is from the faulty premise that the only purpose for covering a plant is to prevent ground saturation.
 
jerryb73

jerryb73

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Bugeye said:
Your confusion is from the faulty premise that the only purpose for covering a plant is to prevent ground saturation.
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That would be correct..lol.. I didn't realize that rain falling on them would hurt them unless they were beat to death.. But I am a new grower so I'm trying to take in all the info I can.. I have plants inside and out.. Lost a couple outside due to rain.. But it was definitely from soggy ground..
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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jerryb73 said:
That would be correct..lol.. I didn't realize that rain falling on them would hurt them unless they were beat to death.. But I am a new grower so I'm trying to take in all the info I can.. I have plants inside and out.. Lost a couple outside due to rain.. But it was definitely from soggy ground..
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the greenhouse or tarps also prevent rain from falling directly on the ground where your plants are. water disperses easily in the wide open ground.
 
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