If I use this fabric around tomato and pepper plants,etc. will the nutrients and water still get through to the roots?
1769399
Absolutely! We've been using it for years in our entire garden and love it.
1769400
Yes it is porous material so the water will seep through if you water slowly. It also blocks the sun from drying out the ground so you will have to water less.
2258574
I'm not exactly sure this will help. I have tomatoes, squash and the vining plants on the highest tier, peppers, spinach, etc on the second and bottom tiers. I used 12 bags of dirt. I have no problems with roots at all. Everything is growing nicely.
1077151
I think if you have a level surface and you line it first so the liner goes up the sides and use a soil that will absorb the water, it would be fine. Garden soil usually has absorbing beads in it. I placed mine on the grass and lined it with weed liner and it worked great. Once you have all the soil in it, it is very stable and the plants are beautiful.
497107
No. The canopy material is porous and will allow water to come through. In the rain I don't notice hardly any water coming through as the material sags some towards the middle. I was however surprised as to how gracefully the canopy handles the wind. Good Luck
1933224
The fabric is made so that water will drain and only the finest of soil could probably leak through.It is not a solid barrier and is made to breath.
1192301
They seem to hold moisture as well as any container. With all container gardening, you have to water a lot more than you would for an in-ground garden. I haven't had any problems with the bags seeming drier than other containers I'm using, and my tomatoes are doing just as well in the bags as the pots.
1045428
No; I would not think that tomato seeds would pass through this colander. It is excellent as a regular colander though!
2194303
What I did was spray the mixing liquid into the ground where ever I want the ground loose or softer, where I have grown plan fruit tomatoes flowers , I spray around the trunks only . But, where the grass n the ground cover or any where the plan surly don't grow higher than 4-6 " I spray over them they work very well . That's what I did with my n I am happy with the result . Hope it help your too .
801244
I did not use for tomatoes but I have no reason to believe you would plant any different from ground plant. I read on www to plant on side covering roots and fuzzy texture up to the first leaves covering with 2-3 inches soil and I did this in ground and was amazed leaves were directed back toward the sky almost overnight. Not sure if this would work in pots due to space but again I would plant as normal depth in ground.
633800
The holes on the bottom are 3/16 (I just measured). They look about the size of a bb. My guess is that tomato seeds would go through but it might take some rinsing.
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My grandson lightly coated the seeds or brushed some on the roots of a re-pot and had great results. Knowing this, I would believe it would need to be backfilled over roots. The product needs to be in contact with the roots. Hope this is helpful.
933325
Yes, although plants touching the cloth may stay wet too long, because the water tension holds the leaf on the cloth
407767
I would think it's possible, but would put landscaping fabric followed by a thin layer of gravel just to inhibit leakage of fine soil from box. Our box is over what was lawn. We put landscaping fabric in bottom mainly to inhibit any weed growth from whatever was under the garden as we didn't get rid of the grass first. In the fall when cleaning out the summer growth we discovered that the roots of our tomatoes etc. did go down through the fabric into the soil below so we are not sure how well the garden plants would do with just the soil in the box. Flowers and/or smaller plants would most likely be OK, but larger plants might not do as well.
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more so than nothing, you can still see through it, the closer you get to it the more clear whatever is behind shade cloth appears, i use it on the top of my greenhouse and it cause harvest a week or so early
1824194
This would be fine for shallow rooted plants, flowers, herbs etc. Vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers tend to have longer root systems and would not be viable in the bottom tier, which is the larger of the two growing areas and has about half the depth.
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While I'm not using them in any pots like that, I think it would work because the soil only draws out water when it is needed.
1023262
I used it to protect my newly planted tomatoes from late spring frost. I setup a square pattern of short (about 18 inches high) stakes to surround the area of tomatoes to protect. I then suspended the covering over the stakes and placed rocks over the overhanging outer edges of the fabric to prevent the wind from lifting it away. There were no tears and the material was easy to handle. It seems like a synthetic woven fabric of some kind - not a plastic sheet.