PLANT PROTECTING THERMAL SHROUD

摘要

A shroud (10) used to protect tomato and other plants from frosts, and thus allow a gardener to grow such crops outside when the danger of frost exists. The shroud consists of a cylindrically or frusto-conically shaped barrier that is open at both ends and is preferably made of a flexible material. The wall (24,26) of the shroud is made up of a series of long parallel vertical chambers (20), eighteen in the preferred embodiment, which are open at the top and sealed at the bottom (18). A circumferential channel (40) runs around the bottom, connecting all of the chambers together so that when water is poured into the top of one of the chambers, it flows down that chamber and into the connecting channel, thereby filling all of the chambers with water to an equal height. When filled with water the shroud is self supporting.