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N@n
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Hackett
Arkansas
USA
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 Posted - Dec 29 2009 : 4:23:26 PM
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Just got back from holiday in Michigan. My DH had put lettuce seed in a planter in the new hoop house he made this fall and when we got home this afternoon, the lettuce is up and green in the walk in hoop house!! And we have had snow while we were gone. How great is that. He put a 50 gallon black barrel full of water in there to hold the heat and that is all that we have done. May have to put an little electric heater out there if it gets too cold. Love it!!!
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Dec 29 2009 : 6:25:18 PM
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That's fabulous, I'm sincerely hoping that this will be the year we get the hoop house built :), sigh....
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4863 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Dec 30 2009 : 08:19:37 AM
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Homegrown, fresh lettuce in the winter! How wonderful!
By the way, what is a hoop house?
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N@n
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Hackett
Arkansas
USA
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 5:46:13 PM
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Hey Dawn,
My Husband built a "hoop House" from Pvc pipe and fencing to keep the deep from devouring our produce. For winter he covered it with clear plastic for a greenhouse. I am not good at describing so will try to take a picture and post it for you to see.
It really works out well for us. Don't know how long the plastic will last, hopefully for a couple of years.
N@n in Ark
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4863 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2010 : 07:18:08 AM
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Your hoop house sounds wonderful. Thanks for explaining it to me, I can actually picture it! I hope your plastic lasts for years.
It is 0 here and we have lots of snow too. Hard for me to imagine growing anything outside right now! Enjoy your salads!
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
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Posted - Jan 10 2010 : 08:57:37 AM
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We just got a copy of "The Winter Harvest Handbook" by Eliot Coleman. Did you get info from that book? Any suggestions of other info sources?
"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.....
But you can be happy if you've a mind to. All you've gotta do in knuckle down, buckle down and do it, do it, do it!" |
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N@n
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Hackett
Arkansas
USA
223 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2010 : 4:21:58 PM
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My husband gleaned issues of several mags and on the internet and came up with a plan based on the row covers. But in the Jan.Feb 2010 issue of Hobby Farms is a good article about hoop houses and covers and based on Elliot Coleman's ideas. I have not seen The Winter Harvest Handbook but I really like Elliot Coleman so I may hunt for it and add it to the garden library.
Good luck. Our lettuce is still alive but not growing very fast but we have had brutally cold weather for over a week. Today was a wonderful respite with temps near 50. My husband could not stay in the hoop house long today. It was too Hot. What fun
We should be eating lettuce fromthe garden soon/
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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sonshine4u
Chapter Guru
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April
New Prague
MN
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2010 : 08:26:54 AM
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I just received the book, Four-Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman for Christmas. I'm excited to learn about all this!
Playing in the Sonshine
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