How to protect balcony succulents from rain

Hello!
I'm Shio.

For those who grow succulents,
a challenging season is coming, isn't it?

Rainy season, evening showers, guerrilla rainstorms.

If you add the sweltering heat of midsummer to that,
they turn to mush and die off in no time.
I also left mine on the balcony for a while,
and before I knew it, they were gone 😱

At that time, I didn't have much mental capacity.
I was also neglecting my plants.

Later, when I was unemployed for a while,
I was basically at home, so the plants grew steadily 🪴

What I learned then:

To grow plants,
a little bit of extra care is important.

☑️ Sunlight intensity,
☑️ Airflow,
☑️ Rain protection.

In that regard,
succulents were more demanding than my aromaticus.

▪️ Indoors ➡︎ Leggy growth
▪️ Balcony ➡︎ Near death from rain and midsummer sun

Yeah.
Trying to grow them naturally is impossible!

I wanted to grow them to be strong, but
they all ended up disappearing 🥲

So, my current stance is something like this.

Basically keep them outside, but bring them indoors when it rains!

In the end, this worked best.

My balcony has eaves, but the rain blows in hard,
so it doesn't mean much.

If I were to keep them outside all the time,
I would need a cover like a greenhouse.

But still...
I'm an anxious person, so I worry about the durability during strong winds.

Also, during typhoons, I want to bring
everything on the balcony indoors as much as possible.

In that case,
it seems that growing them in an environment where they are easy to bring indoors is what suits my home best.

Bringing them indoors🟰No bugs allowed!

So,
I put the baskets themselves into laundry nets.

Even if it can't stop very small bugs,
it can prevent things like stink bugs.
(I've actually had them stuck to the net)

It also provides a little bit of shading in midsummer.

The key is to check the weather forecast
and move them before it rains.

It's tough to move them indoors when they are soaking wet.

If I don't make it in time,
I just have to pray that the rain stops soon 🙏

Also, I use a shading net in midsummer.
I'm grateful that it also protects them from light rain.

I need to check the weather forecast for this too.
I store it away when the wind is strong (like 7m/s).


When I was unemployed, I could respond carefully even to guerrilla rainstorms,
so the survival rate was high.
I wonder how it will go this year...


For now, I want to protect them from long rains and the humidity after the rain by checking the weather forecast!

By the way, here is something I recently bought at 3COINS.

I bought this for the Costco food court.
It's foldable,
and it's convenient to carry drinks all at once!

Drinks are great, but
if I had a pot that fits perfectly, it would be really good for plants✨

The fact that it maintains height even when put in a net
is surprisingly nice.

It's a 500 yen product, but
maybe I'll try buying another one to test it out🤔





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