growbiggerplants Agribon AG-19 Floating Row Crop Cover/Frost Blanket/Frost Cloth/Garden Fabric Plant Cover

This is a very lightweight (summerweight) plant cover, so you do have to handle it carefully to avoid tearing. But it needs to be thin so that it does not trap heat and also lets most of the sun through to the plants. The Agribon brand seems very good quality, and I have reused the fabric for several growing seasons.One of my main uses for this is to cover fruit trees to keep the birds, squirrels, and rats from stealing my plums, apricots, peaches, and apples. I am finding that it works better than bird netting. The critters can see through the bird netting and will keep trying to get through to the fruit, sometimes biting through the netting to fruit they can reach, other times chewing through small branches they can reach, to knock them to the ground where they can push the netting up close and reach the fallen fruit. With the Agribon cover, they can't see the fruit and leave the trees alone more. I get a much better harvest.Please note that unlike with netting, the bees cannot get through to pollinate, so don't cover plants that need pollination by insects, or don't cover them until after they have set fruit.

This fabric along with metal hoop supports covered my young plants after they were installed this past spring. The protection from direct sunlight enabled the plants to acclimate without burning...they did not get set back by sun damage. Using the fabric for weeks after acclimation, protects the young growing plants from a variety of spring and early summer insects reducing the need for treatment and aiding goals to keep the garden organic. Great product. This recent purchase is in preparation for next year. I have been using the fabric for several seasons now and it holds up really well. I expect to get at least three seasons of use before ‘retiring’ it for new fabric. A great product for all vegetable gardens. Eventually, the growing plants outgrow the fabric cover and I store it for next year.

Very lightweight...be careful because it snags easily. A few of the snags created small holes. One of my beds is a 12'x12. Used 1\2 in PVC and rebar for hoop structure. The width of the fabric (83in) made it challenging to cover both sides of each tunnel (2). I had to overlap then clamp which provided a crevices for possible insect entrances. Helps if you have another body. It had to be windy that day!Speaking of clamps the suggested (Amazon) clamps also caused a few of the tears. Allow some extra room to clamp ...yes the wind will blow it a bit more in small areas.To be specific, do not pull to clamp. Be careful, it does not need to be pulled extra taught to secure with white pvc clamps. On either side of bed I used leftover PVC pipes to roll inside and upward to create a weight/straight line of fabric that sits on the side of beds.- If you do need to gather two edges at the mouth/end of a low tunnel twist edges together and use plenty of clothes pins. Amazon sells bulk 2 inch (miniature) wood working spring clamps worked even better. Learned that after pics were taken. Regular clothes pins popped apart.- Strong thin rope tied to stakes (hammered in at angle) beside raised bed between hoops helped with wind In conjunction with hoop house clamps.

My first time trying row covers on my home veggie garden this year, though I see this brand in the farmers fields all the time.Definitely worth it for extending growing season and protecting new plants from cold snaps in Spring. We had lettuce in a sheltered area near a south facing wall all winter in Albuquerque, New Mexico (high desert, Winter temps get down into the tens or even 0 occasionally though most of the season is fairly mild compared to the NE, and no snow) thanks to these row covers. Do have to decide how you're going to handle snow, as these will not support a snow load, particularly if you just use wire hoops as I did.Now it's Spring we had temps drop to 30ºF this past weekend, I put these over the tomato plants the afternoon before the tomatoes covered with this row cover showed no ill effects, those without got visible (but not fatal) leaf and bud freeze burns. With care you should get a couple of seasons use out of the cover, I snagged one section a few times due to carelessness and it's torn, but that's not the product's fault, just a reminder to be careful laying it out and packing it up for storage.

Holds up well (even in high winds), and has kept my tomato plants alive with 25 deg F temps. What more can I say?At the start of Sept we had a freak cold spell, everyone else at the community garden had to put blankets over their plants and then come back the next day to uncover for sunlight, and then cover again at night. I left the row cover on for the 4 days of low temps (below freezing).....even my summer squash plants survived (the only ones at the community garden to make it).Almost end of October, and I have this covering my plants in one of my hoop houses. Tomato plants and others still going strong. I do have the hoop house covered also with plastic.....but I live at 7200 ft elevation and I'm still getting tomatoes! (first time in 5 years I've gotten tomato plants to live this far into the season....and even more importantly....have the toms ripen ON THE VINE)This stuff had been great for keeping my plants alive through early season freezes. Lightweight, so I used some tiny clamps to clip it to my raised beds so it wouldn't blow away in the high winds we get here in the Mountain West.

The fabric is not very durable and rips easily. Not a multiseason use. Works well for a 2-3 times.