How do you---

[landimad]

Colour Horticultural Fleece?
I get fed up with the white blindness from all this fleece over the countryside.
It would be nice to see the green return to our countryside.
If the companies would make this in green or brown then this would be better on the eye and have more appeal to those who would use it more often if it was not of the white colour.

[landimad]

[longalot]

brown and green might be aesthetically pleasing to some but they are not better for the plants in colours other  then white.

[1066]

well I use a mixture of stuff to cover my veggies. There's the debris netting stuff which is green. I also use enviromesh which is white. But I guess if you were wanting to cover stuff you could buy some net curtains and dye them green?

1066  :)

[Digeroo]

A lot of people now have green debris netting for their brassicas unfortuneately it is much too blue and so does not blend in at all.   I think it looks worse than the white.  The plants seem to be growing under ok.  

I have some black fleece but this cuts down on the sun and I use it to cover the brassicas to keep them cool and moist for a few days after they have been planted out.

I have some very old netting that was green but actually it is difficult to see and easy to get tangled in.  The turquoise is safer. 

[landimad]

I was thinking of trying out some cages which have a green surround and the white fleece used inside to break up the glare of the white.
What do you think???

[queenbee]

I wash my white fleece in the washing machine, It can be washed several times so I would say it would take dye
very well. I do so agree that it is a bit of an eyesore on the beds but it saves my carrots from root fly. I should have covered my brassicas they have been eaten by caterpillars but I really do not want a sea of white. I will go with cages next year for these.

[lincsyokel2]

I wash my white fleece in the washing machine, It can be washed several times so I would say it would take dye
very well. I do so agree that it is a bit of an eyesore on the beds but it saves my carrots from root fly. I should have covered my brassicas they have been eaten by caterpillars but I really do not want a sea of white. I will go with cages next year for these.

Build frames out of disassembled pallets, 2.2 m x 1.2 m x 60cm, covered in green debris netting with handles at each end from very large nylon cable ties. I use them all round the plot, to cover all sorts of things. One side effect ive found is when it rains the net slows down and break up the drops of rain so my tiny seedlings dont get too battered.

[Jeannine]

I can answer this one about colour. It washes well but it will not take dye well, none of the synthetic fabrics do.They do dye to a degree but usually much much paler than the colour you expect , eg you could die it the deepest darkest green you can find and chances are it will come pale, especially after rinsing.  I dyed a cotton dress a few weeks ago,from pale blue to navy, the cotton dyed well but the interfacing around the buttonholes was very pale, and has faded more since re washing it, the ag fleece is basically the same stuff as the interfacing.

XX Jeannine