Cookaholics Bulletin Board

Dave - do you do high tunnels?

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/organic/?cid=nrcseprd1364702

Also, some background information:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/dining/norwich-meadows-farm-vegetables.html

Nothing that high, but I have set up some 4 ft high, and 6 ft wide, made by bending 1/2" conduit, and I made a long pvc support, using 3/4" pvc, and every 5 ft a tee, with a 6" support the bent coduit hoop would set into. Then, I put some greenhouse plastic - some excess "trimmings" I got from a place online, to cover the hoop house for the winter. Many Asian greens would last down to the low 20s inside the thing - usually the low teens outside - and I could even put a heater inside, for when it got even colder. Lettuce died first, then the chard, then the bok choy much later, then mbuna and one variety of komatsuna were some of the last, and tastoi the last, I think because it is so flat to the ground. Strangely enough, kohlraby stayed alive, but stopped growing early on, but around the beginning of March, it took off again! Many of the others that died off, like bok choy, would grow back quickly, as soon as it got a little warmer, in January or whenever, and I'd get several cuttings from each.

What were you thinking of growing in them?

I no longer have room in my yard for an edible garden. While my Wife's mother lived with us we rebuilt the yard to meet her wish to grow hundreds of flowers. As she aged, we added raised beds to accommodate her arthritis and eventually added artificial turf because of her frequent falling.

I thought the article was fascinating and so practical and wanted to share it here for others and their efforts.

Have you read about the guys growing tropcal produce in Ontario in hoop houses? Local bananas at the farmers market! (apparently they have closed🙁)

WOW! I wasn't aware of this. However, to quote George Burns and others, I no longer buy green bananas...

It's not easy being 900 years old!