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What Shade Cloth Density Allows Vegetables To Grow?
What Shade Cloth Density Allows Vegetables to Grow?. Shade cloth, a knitted polyethylene fabric, blocks the sun’s radiation on crops grown in open fields, greenhouses and high tunnels. Purchased in densities that correlate to the percentage of light blocked by the cloth, shade cloth most often used for vegetables ranges from 20 percent to 40 percent, with 30 percent the most common. The shade cloth density that best allows vegetables to grow, however, depends on the climate, the season and the vegetable crops that are being grown.
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