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Greenhouse Shading Alternatives
lizmac
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Greenhouse Shading materials and paint is quite expensive.
A neighbour told me he used to use a very weak white emulsion solution and said it was as good as the 'stuff sold in shops'.
Has anyone used this and can you recommend it?
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I would think that it would be baked onto the glass (hopefully) by the end of the summer and would need scrubbed off. How about greenhouse shading netting?
Netting here too. Easy to sling over and peg down in no time at all. No painting, no cleaning.
You can also get it in a roller blind format so you can roll it up on dull days when you want more light on the plants and down again when it's scorchio.
Thanks for replies: Trouble is we will be moving in the next year and don't know if we will have a greenhouse so looking for cheap option!
Where did you purchase your netting - have never used it.
look on ebay or similar for scaffold netting - very cheap and close knit so would give reasonable shade
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Thanks Pete8 - will try that
I got a cheap bed sheet and tied it to the roof for shading one year! Rolled up and put in the bin when no longer required!
I can't think that emulsion (weak or not) would be a very good idea. The netting is easily available from GCs. We discussed this last year on the board - and I had found that a shower curtain rod stretched inside the GH was perfect for using to drape shading over. I've done it again this year, using fleece, which is lightweight and easily moved on dull days.
Thanks everyone - some good ideas here
I bought a pack of 4 sachets of coolglass for £5 few weeks ago.
I cannot see why it is so expensive it is just whitewash with enough glue to make the chalk/lime mixture to stick to the windows. There were some charging £25.
It seems recently that on a number of on line sellers websites unscrupulous people are just charging however much they think they can get away with.
Caveat emptor on t'internet .
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I have been using net curtaining, and it seems to be fairly effective. My cucumber and gherkin plants (which need shading) have bamboo stakes in their pots and I just loosely hang the net from these stakes, so the net just gently hangs over these delicate plants. I am sure you can easily rig up the curtains to cover most of your plants lizmac. You can take the net curtain with you when you move. I got mine from the local fabric shop or available on ebay or Amazon.