If you like to dry your clothes without having to use a dryer, you are doing a great service to both the environment and to your pocket book. But of course, putting out a line can be a bit of a hassle in times when the weather gets cold. After all, there is nothing quite like putting out your wet clothes, and finding them a little while later frozen to the point where they look like either an artist’s interpretation of clothes drying made out of sheet metal or some kind of crudely designed armor. But while you can not stop your clothes from freezing when the weather makes the mercury start to shiver, you can give your clothes a couple of advantages in drying more effectively out there.
For one thing, you can always dry your clothes in a greenhouse. Consider that the environment of a greenhouse is supposed to be moist and humid, and the idea begins to make perfect sense. Your plants will love the humidity that will naturally come off of your clothes. And considering that it is usually warm in there anyway, you will most likely not have to deal with the frozen clothes syndrome that you would outside. But of course, not everybody is going to have a greenhouse, which means that those unfortunate souls are going to need to deal with some issues.
For one thing, it is pretty much impossible to keep your clothes from freezing up when you put them outside and they are wet. You may even have to deal with some icicles that will slowly drip out of your clothing. If you do want them to stay a little bit warmer, you can put your clothes facing the sun during the morning (eastern exposure), so that they will get the maximum amount of solar radiation on them. You can even go so far as to put black trash bags over them, for more heat.