{"id":9032,"date":"2020-06-18T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:57:09","slug":"too-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/too-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Hot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200616_200209-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>We are now into mid-June, only days away from the summer solstice.  It is also Day 2 of a 5 day heat wave, with temps at, near or above 30C.<br \/>\nHaving just transplanted the last of our peppers into the ground, we thought it might be a good idea to  protect them a bit from the heat, at least at first.  Here is our pepper VegBed6, with a Lee valley bulk insect netting (about 13&#8217;x20&#8242;) covering them.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.leevalley.com\/en-ca\/shop\/garden\/pest-control\/insects\/71937-bulk-mosquito-netting<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This netting can serve multiple purposes.<br \/>\nThough primarily intended to create a bug-free environment, it can be used as a tent for partial shade; a single layer blocks 35% of incident light, while two layers block 57%. It can protect delicate plants and crops from direct sun or prevent damage by birds or animals.<br \/>\nMade of polyester with tape-bound edges, the netting measures 4m \u00d7 6m (approx. 13&#8242; \u00d7 20&#8242;) and weighs about 0.84kg (1.85 lb).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We also threw one onto a part of the tomato patch in Vegbed5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now into mid-June, only days away from the summer solstice. It is also Day 2 of a 5 day heat wave, with temps at, near or above 30C. Having just transplanted the last of our peppers into the ground, we thought it might be a good idea to protect them a bit from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}