hoop house
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Turning the Hoop House from Summer to Fall
It’s a process that has been slowly happening over the course of the last month, and it’s a pretty big job to take all these giant plants that have been growing all summer, remove them, and flip five 88-fot beds over to lettuce and greens that will start being available around the end of October… Continue reading
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Chasing Perfect Sweet Peppers
Peppers have been one of my most consistently poor crops (if not outright failed crops) and it’s been quite the journey figuring out why. It seems like we’ve tried everything and over the past 8 seasons there were maybe two that we had great peppers, but even that comes with a big asterisk. This season… Continue reading
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The Wall of Japanese Cucumbers
A couple years ago we tried these Japanese Shintokiwa cucumbers. I had heard of them, but someone from our CSA gave me one to try and it passed the bar for trial. And so trial we did. That was actually our first trial with cucumber trellising, knowing that we would be building a hoop house… Continue reading
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Building for an Epic Tomato Year
We’re off to a fantastic start for our tomato plan. The hoop house is loaded with baby beefsteaks, the cherry toms are setting out their second tier of flowers and fruit, and the earliest field tomatoes are already in. As soon as the weather went from cold to hot, we started firing on the hot… Continue reading
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Collecting Rainwater & Installing RO
With the now-one-year-old-hoop-house, we’ve had to pay a lot of attention to water quality. Simple reason being that once you put up a piece of plastic over the ground, it will never again rain naturally on that ground….therefore it is up to us to provide 100% of the water needs of the crop. This presents… Continue reading
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Starting the Greenhouse and The Tomato Gap
Yes, its a bit early this year, and that’s because of our hoop house. With only 6 weeks to go until the target transplant date of April 15th, we’ve got to get our Tomatoes and Peppers going earlier this year. It’s always a nice day when finally, after months of winter, you can walk to… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
