Minimum height of windbreak

[JT101]

For those of us with allotment plots, we have more restrictions than planting in open fields or even back gardens.

Mine, namely is space. I only have a half plot which is only 3.7m wide (N-S) and exposed. Some of my new plants have already suffered from wind damage and perished from SW winds.



Ideally i would plant a wind break, but of course this creates significant shade on my plot. So my question is, what is the minimum meaningful windbreak I can have. Supposedly a windbreak provides 8 times it's height in protection, so I would only need something 0.46m tall, but I suspect that wind might just barrel over the top of such a small hedge.

If I went above 1m, then it's probably not worth planting anything on the plot because it will be shaded out.

Thanks

[roitelet]

How about windbreak netting. I used to live overlooking the Bristol Channel and used it at the bottom of the garden. The only problem was that while it protected the plants about halfway up the garden the plants nearer the house were damaged by the wind.i think the netting comes about a metre wide.

Best of luck

[Bluenowhere]

If you use scaffold netting that would probably block enough wind to offer protection. I use to net most of my crops to protect from the wood pigeons, parakeets etc etc we get in Kent and everything grows well so the shade from it shouldn’t be a problem.

My corn blew over this year so feel your pain with the wind.