[Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about garden mats

[Nella Foster]

Tracy is the go to plant person here. Lol

I don't think stevia is a tree, the plants I've seen were 2 to 3 feet tall, but maybe there are different varieties.

When I lived in Arizona lots of people put up shade cloth for their plants.

Nella

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Hi Sharon.
I'd recommend putting anything out there into a self-watering pot.  Water helps the plant stay cooler, and self-watering keeps you from having to water it all the time.
Gardeners Supply sells some very nice ones, though they're not cheap. 
gardeners.com, or Amazon.  Their pots are self-watering and have thick walls.  Mine have lasted for years.  Other self-watering pots I've seen have much thinner walls.

Stevia is always listed in the herb section of catalogs, so I always pictured it as something small, not a tree.  But I could be totally wrong about that.  The catalogs claim it's happy living inside, too.

Could you rig a bit of shade for a pot?  I'm thinking tying a bit of cloth to the deck railing in such a way that it hangs down and protects the pot from the sun when it's hottest.  Just a thought.
Tracy

> Hi,
>
> I’m thinking of growing a potted plant on the deck of the house 
> I’m living in.  The problem is that it was built on the wrong side, 
> which makes it very hot in the summertime.  It’s so hot that when I 
> step onto it, I can’t go barefoot until I move toward the swing.  If 
> I need to place it in that hot area, how much would a double thick 
> plastic mat insulate the pot?  The house owner says that all the 
> plants she tried to grow out there died.  I want to grow stevia, which 
> I learned is a tropical and subtropical tree, so I figure it can stand 
> the hot sunlight shining down into it.  Any shielding feedback?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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