2010 07 Hoop House July Bounty
Hoop House is now producing abundant tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, peppers, and zinnias. As usual, some plants are doing great, while others are mysteriously doing less great. Mendocino weather has continued cool with days of fog. The hoop house overcomes all. Blessed be the hoop house!
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For wintering your hoop house, I’ve found it best to use row covers rather than a second skin on the hoop house. The covers can be pulled back during the day to allow more light and heat on the soil, and they do a better job of holding the thermal heat in at night. Where you live it doesn’t get super cold so the winter crops you’ll have growing it there will tolerate your winter temps very easily despite it freezing inside. Lettuce typically won’t bruise until it gets below 15F or so.
palui
March 4, 2012 at 3:54 am
@tpboles
The hoop hoose froze consistently last winter. It was even colder in the hoop house that outside! I think this was because of radiative cooling. I am considering putting on an additional covering layer and blowing air between them. This is said to provide considerable insulation. Then perhaps I will try greens, but sun is problem in the winter because of the location of the hoop house near the west side of our opening in forest.
vtaylor100
March 4, 2012 at 4:01 am
Ever thought about trying greens during the fall/winter in the hoop house?
tpboles
March 4, 2012 at 4:20 am