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Why covering a plant on a freeze night works or fails

A cover slows heat leaving for the sky, and it fails if it touches the leaves or the night is too cold.

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From the opening

A cover on a freeze night works by slowing the loss of heat that the ground and the plant are radiating away. It is a lid over a small store of warmth, not a heater, unless you add a real source of heat under it. The opening covers the cover traps ground heat, why the cloth must not touch, and a hard freeze empties the store.

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Inside

  • The cover traps ground heat
  • Why the cloth must not touch
  • A hard freeze empties the store
  • What an added jug of water does
  • Where the idea stops applying
  • A distinction worth keeping

Sources

  • Radiation frost and heat loss to a clear sky
  • The air gap under a plant cover