How to measure how much sun your garden gets? and Garden mothing 2011 #39, 3 September

How to measure how much sun your garden gets?

I am interested in starting a veggie garden, and the plants need full sun. How can I measure how much sun the area gets? I've heard of the sunstick but I was wondering if there was a free way?


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Answer by I am I said
"Full sun" means 8 eight hours of unobstructed sunlight. It costs you nothing to observe the presence or absence of shade.

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Garden mothing 2011 #39, 3 September


The Sallows are a very attractive group of moths and this Centre-barred Sallow (Atethmia centrago) is the first of them I've seen this year. They're autumnal moths and blend beautifully with the yellowing and brown leaves.

Chinese Character 1
Garden Carpet 1
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Green Carpet 3
Double-striped Pug 2
Brimstone Moth 1
Willow Beauty 6
Flame-shoulder 1
Large Yellow Underwing 47
Lesser Yellow Underwing 22
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 10
Square-spot Rustic 27
Smoky Wainscot 1
Common Wainscot 1
Centre-barred Sallow 2 NFY
Angle Shades 1
Flounced Rustic 8
Vine's Rustic 1
Burnished Brass 2
Silver Y 3
Straw Dot 2
Snout 5
Fan-foot 2

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