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Originally Posted by shule1
Wow. That's pretty cool.  Thanks for your reply. She sounds like my kind of person. You must get some awesome storms. It takes quite a bit to disrupt a plant coming from above an open milk jug hole (although I've had it happen once—it was an enormous amount of heavy rain, unusual for my area).
I use milk jugs to protect plants from frost and to a lesser degree, from other weather/insects (sans grasshoppers that hatch under the jug), wind, and dry air. I haven't tried them in shade in the middle of summer, though. |
Yeah, it's pretty hot and humid in the summer. I think the closing of the jug is to keep out the heavy rainfall but also for winter time when she is sewing seeds for the next season. She has a nice yard with plenty of shaded areas she can do this, but my yard is not setup with all the trees around me like she has. She has the ability to surround her jugs with other pots growing this seasons things which then protect the jug from the wind. She's got a pretty cool setup.
