Floating Row Cover
Using a floating row cover is an effective way to prevent damage from quite a few insects like potato bugs, earwigs, carrot maggots, caterpillars and aphids.
- It’s a thin, lightweight black fabric used to cover the earth in the garden.
- It’s
 permeable (lets water soak through) and light impermeable which prevents most weeds from germinating underneath it.
- It comes in several widths, the most common being 3’ wide (1 m) and lots of different lengths to fit your garden from 50 to 200 feet (15 to 60 m).
- Figure out the size of your garden by referring to your garden plan or multiply the length by the width of your garden to calculate its square yardage.
- If you have a rectangular garden that is 10 feet wide by 15 feet long you have 150 square feet or 50 square yards. (4 m × 6 m = 24 meters square)
- Buy enough row cover to blanket the whole garden with some left over around the edges.
- Cover the whole garden with the material and bury the edges in shallow trenches 3 inches wide (8 cm) and 2 inches (4 cm) deep.
- Carefully cut holes through it where you want to plant your seeds and seedlings.
- When the growing season is over and all your plants have been harvested wash off the cover, let it dry, roll it up and put it in a
 , dry place ready for next spring.
- You can leave it on your garden over the winter but it will slowly decompose from exposure to the
 and rain.
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