Table of Contents (Items Covered on This Page)

WHAT IS THE Wallo’Water PLANT PROTECTOR?

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

WHY ARE THEY GREEN?

TESTIMONIALS

WHAT IS THE Wallo’Water PLANT PROTECTOR?

Simply stated, the Wallo'Water is a money-saving season extender that puts a self-standing wall of water around your garden plant. Early in the spring this wall bathes your plants in a microclimate with summer-like day temperatures and protects it from night temperatures as low as 10°F. With these features, you can confidently plant your garden 8 to 6 weeks earlier. With an earlier start at the beginning of the season, you'll begin harvesting 3 to 5 weeks earlier in the middle of the season and realize a 50 to 500% increase in yield by the end of the season.

You need to handle the Wallo'Water no more than four times a season no matter what the weather. Each time requires about two minutes in your garden and between those times you can be gone from your garden for weeks.

All this and yet it only costs less than 50¢ per season to use. Is it no wonder we call it the WoW?

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Before going further, it will be helpful to describe the Wallo’Water and give some terminology that will be used in the remainder of this booklet.

Before it is filled with water, each WoW measures 18 inches high by 28 inches long.  It consists of four layers of 6 mil polyethylene (Figure 1). The four layers are made with two identical sheets, each folded at the bottom so that it has two, nearly identical layers. The two sheets are joined at their ends by an end seam. The two layers of each sheet are heat-sealed together by 10 seams that form nine pockets measuring 3x18 inches each. Thus there is a total of 18 pockets. These pockets are open at their top. One side of the pocket is slightly longer than the other so that there is a 1/4-inch offset at the top.

Figure 1. An empty Wallo’Water

The Wallo’Water can be set up in the "tepee WoW" and "open WoW" configurations (Figure 2). The tepee WoW is made by filling each of the pockets about half way. (see "FILLING PROCEDURE"). This causes the top of the WoW to fold inward, forming a conical wall of water that completely covers the plant. The external dimensions of the tepee WoW are those of a cone with a height of 16 inches and a diameter at the base of 16 inches. The internal dimensions are those of a cone with a height of 12 inches and a base of 14 inches. Officially the tepee WoW has consistently protected to 10° F. Unofficially it has protected to much lower (see "CAN YOU BEAT THIS?").

Figure 2. A Tepee (a) and Open Wallo’Water (b); font-family: Symbol;">

The open WoW is made by filling each pocket all the way forming a cylindrical wall of water around a wide-open top (Figure 3). The outside diameter of the cylinder is 14 inches and the inside diameter is 12 inches. Its height is 18 inches. Even though the top is wide open, this configuration has consistently protected to 16°·F.

The tepee WoW is used day and night early in the season for extra protection and to warm the soil. The open WoW is used day and night later in the season to allow for unencumbered growth, to protect from freak late frosts, and to prevent the occurrence of scorching internal temperatures on hot days (see "Wallo’Water"> USE CHART''). The above dimensions were chosen to provide the ideal-sized mini-habitat for your plant in each configuration when used according to the Wallo'Water USE CHART.

WHY ARE THEY GREEN?

The answer to this question is more relevant than you might think.  When TerraCopia started out, it made WoWs out of clear plastic because that was the most affordable color available.  After TerraCopia started experiencing success, colored plastic became available.  We tested black, clear, half black and half clear, red, purple, blue and green.  Many Wallo'Water knock offs currently for sale in retail outlets or gardening catalogues are red.  They are red for a good reason that is explained in the following movie clips.  However, there is even a better reason for them to be green, which is also explained in the following movie clips.

  Several colors.MOV (A rainbow of Wallo'Waters)

  grass is green.MOV (Why leaves are green)

  why not red wows.MOV (Why are red Wallo'Waters not the best?)

  green wows.MOV (What's going on with the green Wallo'Water?)

  c3 nd c4.MOV (What does C3 and C4 have to do with it?)

TESTIMONIALS

These came to TerraCopia in the 1980's.  They are still relevant.

"We used the Wallo'Waters last year and our neighbors couldn't believe the tomatoes!"

     B. Young, Montpelier, ID

"I tried your Wallo'Water this past summer and was very impressed with their results with tomatoes.  Used with Pixie tomatoes (an early small tomato variety), I was picking tomatoes all during July and my plant size and yield was double normal.

     R. Kelly, Stowe, VT

"I am writing you too tell you that the Wallo'Water has made me the envy of our neighborhood.  Our tomato plants are now mature [June 13th] and each has at least six sets of blossoms on them.  Our next door neighbor who only grows tomatoes in his garden is completely amazed at the size and vigor of our plants.  After removing the Wallo'Water from off the tomatoes, I installed two of them on two cantaloupes.  They are both now well ahead of plants without the aid."

     R. Olson, Salt Lake City, UT   -- Spectacular results even though R. Olson may have removed the WoW too soon.  See "Wallo'Water USE CHART."

"we used Wallo'Waters on 3 tomato plants.  They grew over 5' high and gave us a high yield of tomatoes.  We next put them on 3 eggplants.  The eggplants were larger and better than the three next to them."

     Mrs. L. Kuehn, Trumbull, CT

"[This January] we have been having some decidedly wet and cold weather.  Seemed like the rain would never stop and then we had a few days with frost.  A lot of my garden got caught, but not my old pepper in its Wallo'Water.  It's still producing big peppers and has a smalter of flowers indicating more on the way."

     S. Larmen, Monterey, CA (See START THE SEASON, END THE SEASON, OR OVERWINTER?)

"The broccoli plants that have Wallo'Waters around them are doing much better than the other plants.  Your product certainly has my endorsement.

     J. Lee, Marietta, GA

"I had good luck with melons with Wallo'Waters."

     B. Brandt, S. Royalton, VT

""I have discovered...A fantastic product.  I am delighted with the effectiveness of the Wallo'Water, which incidentally seems to be an excellent conversation piece among gardeners.

     R. Megathlin, Dennisport, MA

"I am writing...to report that the Wallo'Waters...have been more effective than I ever dreamed possible, and to say that I have been enthusiastically promoting them to my friends, neighbors and relatives, who all garden.

     R. Buchanan, Bridgewater, VA

"I used the Wall o'Wates last summer and all of our neighbors were amazed."

     Mrs. P. Periman, Union, OR

Return to WalloWater Page.

Return to Mentiscopia.