I’ve been unsuccessful in locating any 90% Eucalyptus shade cloth: apparently it has been discontinued. There is light green but in the mean time I have been distracted with ideas of hessian instead. Am very impressed with my double-hessian (read: previous vegetable sack) curtain in the toilet window (west facing). Was so impressed that I hung up more hessian bags along the western side of the verandah, but used curtain rings and they have drooped in between each ring and the coverage is ordinary as the sun now heats up the verandah between “curtains”.
So I looked up the internet, and surprisingly there is much hessian available, at a fraction of the shadecloth price. I particularly like the fact that once hessian starts to rot, it makes the best worm farm insulator and, I should imagine, mulch for garden beds.
Now my query relates to: should I buy 14oz and double over, or just go for the juglar and buy 18 oz. Working on the theory that two 90% shadecloths, doubled over, don’t necessarily give 180% shade (told you my maths was woeful), would two 14oz hessians, doubled as they are in a bag, provide denser or lesser shade than the 18 oz?