ofm, I also use this brand of cloth called N-sulate. It is a white tightly woven fabric used for protecting rowed out seedlings. It is a little lighter in weight than the shade cloth and I use it also for shading my succulents (especially the taller specimens that the shade cloth can be too heavy on). And when it gets (sort of ) cold (we did get 28 temp last winter) I used both the shade and the N-sulate to keep the frost off my plants. In the past, I have used a double layer of N-sulate to cover my semp bed while I was out of town for a week and didn't want to think about too much sun exposure on them.