Our specially designed garden fleece is lightweight and can be laid on top of tender plants and vegetables. Weighing 17gsm it will still let light, air and moisture in. How To Use Garden Fleece If you don’t have a greenhouse, one alternative for plants in pots is to bury them in the ground, pot and all. It might sound strange, but the warmer soil below the surface can help provide enough warmth to save your plants from frost damage. Make sure your garden water drainage is spot on Insect-pollinated crops such as strawberries and courgettes are unsuited to growing under crop covers during their flowering period. Sustainability If you are covering smaller plants, it might be a good idea to go out and measure them as you could save money by using a single large fleece to protect multiple plants. For larger, or oddly shaped plants, you might be better off with a roll of material that you can wrap around it. How delicate are the plants?

Fleece is not durable and 17g fleece is usually replaced annually although 35g fleece can give more than one season’s use. Fleece is very vulnerable to fox damage.

The best time to start using overnight protection for tender crops and other plants in the UK is between November and mid-February. Using crop protection, even in mild wet weather can help them to thrive without the issues caused by frost, too much sunlight and insect damage. All of our garden fleece products are UV stabilised and rot-proof and offer plenty of benefits including: Rehousing delicate plants in a greenhouse can really help them to see it through the next season. You might have to heat your greenhouse to help things along too, but it all depends on what plants are in there. I specifically bought myself a mini greenhouse for this as my conservatory is already full. Mini greenhouses are super short term frost protection

Like we said earlier, wrapping your plants in a cover made of fleece, hessian burlap, or something of that ilk, is one of the easiest and most effective ways to keep them safe in the winter. Using garden fleece encourages your plants to grow faster due to the increased soil and air temperature. Horticultural fleece also promotes heathier growth while reducing disease build-up. All being said, this is an excellent, albeit slightly limited product, that would be best used in conjunction with one of the lighter covers to provide complete protection.The material is quite thin at only 17 GSM, and very lightweight, but it is surprisingly strong, especially when you wrap with a double layer. The thinness of the fleece has its advantages, such as allowing a good amount of air and moisture to get through to the plants within, but I don’t think it would last more than a couple of winters before needing replacing. Then again, that could be said for most of these kinds of products. If you’re thinking that being UV resistant means that light won’t get to your plants inside the cover, there’s no need to worry. These transparent covers will still allow light to pass through them and keep your plants alive and healthy. You also get a drawstring and zipper with these so it should make fitting them around the most difficult plants all that bit easier.