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Increasing the amount of sunlight you have in your garden space is very important and serves several different purposes. Reflect more light onto your outdoor garden space with help from an experienced gardening professional in this free video clip.
Expert: Mindy McIntosh- Shetter
Filmmaker: Lorenzo Jackson
Series Description: The steps you will take to set up your very own garden will vary depending on a number of different factors, including where you live. Get gardening tips and advice with help from an experienced gardening professional in this free video series.
12 Comments
not a good idea. the foil will end up as litter blowing around the neighborhood. very, very bad idea. just my opinion. thank you.
i like the concept but looks pretty flimsy. she didn't show us a finished project.
I no scientist, but don’t leaves photosynthesis from the top not the bottom. I also see this keeping the ground colder and causing your plants to overheat or scald since the light will be penetrating under the canopy.
if you look at the bottom of leaves they're designed differently than the top I don't think the bottom of the leaf is intended to be taking bright sunlight.
Having a non-permeable, non-biodegradable material covering your soil will be very bad for your plants and for the health of your soil overall. It will severely reduce air and water penetration into the soil. Plants also do a great deal of their gas exchange through their roots. Sure, some water and air will leak into the slits between sheets of overlapping foil, but moisture application and air penetration will be uneven. This would also negatively affect beneficial aerobic fungi, insects, earthworms, and microbes. It'll likely create an excellent safe haven for pests, harmful fungi, and anaerobic microbes to proliferate and kill your plants over time. Air flow and water penetration are incredibly important across the whole planting area, not just the holes you cut where you stick the plants in the soil. Better to use white-painted or foil-covered vertical surfaces to reflect sunlight onto under-sunlit gardens. I can also see there being an issue with animals and falling debris tearing up or crinkling the foil; making it less effective at reflecting light and possibly even causing it to tear apart and blow away in little pieces (worst case scenario). It may also be harmful to wild animals, though I can't say for sure. Farmers will lay reflective plastic under their crops because it is more durable, but they also only lay it directly around their crops, instead of across all soil surfaces. I'll look elsewhere for good solutions.
I have never heard of reflective mulch
Please show silver foil practically in a location that helps ur plants with reflection of sunlight.
Might blind a pilot flying over
nice idea👍
I think the idea as weird as the accent.
Underneath the aluminum is a bed for damaging fungus and bacteria as well as bugs home
maybe you can add the foil or silver mylar vertically, next to the plants