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In the indispensable category, I would have to add row covers and shade nets. White row covers, light, medium and heavy weight are perfect for protecting new transplants from predators and severe weather. Dark green 50 percent or black 30 percent shade nets are de rigeur wardrobe fittings for leafy greens in our sultry climate. These nets, stretched over hoops, cover my greens from April through early October and are used to pre-cool the soil for fall plantings of coolloving vegetables. They, too, are good protections against transplanting shock, in our sometimes 90 degree spring weather.
I am almost forgetting gloves and hats! Although it is fun to imagine lolling about the garden in lady-like dresses and huge-brimmed hats picking a rose with a white-gloved hand, I'm a real dirt gardener who gets very dirty and hats and gloves are practical matters. Womanswork leather gloves fit beautifully and come in various weights of goatskin and deerskin. They also
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