[Madame Cholet]

Hi just got 3 lovely rolls of fleece for Christmas would like to get some crops off to an early  any advise please and other successful uses please?

[Yorkie]

Covering carrots and parsnips against carrot root fly.

[gobs]

Occasional blanket for anything tender at frostie times.

Keep the rest safe. They are far from everlasting.

[DD.]

I was going to say "keeping myself warm in this weather", then I realised that you weren't talking about that sort of fleece.

[m1ckz]

yes DD ive got mine on too lol

[compostqueen]

I just put some over my onion sets at home to keep the blackbirds from hoiking them out, now that the tips are just poking through

Over seed trays in the greenhouse on frosty nights

I sometimes use it as a strainer 

[sarajane]

It will mainly be going over all my seedlings in the unheated greenhouse, every night, (when I get them going).

I also put it flat, over my parsnip, carrot and beetroot seeds when they have been sown.  I water through it and find it keeps the soil damper for longer (until they have germinated.  This also stops the pigeons and sparrows from eating them as soon as my back it turned.

[Madame Cholet]

thank you.

Will it warm up the soil before planting eg for carrots?

[sunshineband]

thank you.

Will it warm up the soil before planting eg for carrots?

I have never used it for that as I prefer plastic.

Fleece goes over my new potatoes to protect the shoots from frost

[leeks r us]

Hi Rachelk i find useing fleece as frost protection gains you between 1 and 2 degrees however as sunshineband has just mentioned i use plastic / cloches for warming soil up.