So, what’s the general feeling on those plastic popup greenhouses?
After a particularly rough month with my plants I am considering getting a popup style plastic greenhouse for my plants.
I am kinda hoping that it would help to keep the moisture up and the shade up since a like half dozen of my peppers just got sunrot.
I have noticed my plants under my bug netting do better and my pepper plant in the ground under it doesn’t have sunrot. I think it would also let me keep my pots longer in fall since in in zone 7 and cold snaps happen.
So… Any thoughts? Tips? Etc?
Nethouses are used in commercial production in many areas. They use netting with a very fine holes (aphid/thrip proof). Generally this gives around a 25% shade with significant humidity increases.
The classic way to prevent sunscald on peppers is to strip off the first fruit that set. Next fertilize the plants heavily to encourage vegetative growth. Once the plants are larger let them set fruit. The shade from the leaves protects the fruit. This method also greatly increases the total production of the plant over the growing season by sacrificing early fruit set.