How to Install Reflective Mulch
- 1). Install your reflective mulch over cleared, tilled, amended, fertilized and irrigated soil with the drip or emitter irrigation tubes already buried in the soil, but before seeds or plants are put into the ground.
- 2). Roll out the reflective mulch like fabric over the top and sides of the planting rows, covering each growing row with the shiny reflective surface facing up towards the sun.
- 3). Anchor the mulch fabric down with the provided U-shaped or V-shaped pins at the ends and edges of the rows as needed to keep the mulch in place considering local wind conditions. A homeowner using the product on a smaller scale could also use rocks to anchor the mulch down.
- 4). Cut slits in the reflective mulch surface of the proper size and interval for the seeds or plants you are growing. You need the slit to start out large enough to get the seed or plant into the soil and be firmed in with your hands and for the seedling to be able to exit from under the mulch through the hole. The size will vary widely from seed to young plants and also by species.
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