Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I think folks would like to hear which cold-hardy crops you grow all winter
in the hoophouse without heat.  Besides those you can just leave outside
under the mulch or snow blanket till you want to dig them. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 7/31/2006 at 3:29 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>> One thing that is right at the top of my list is putting together an
>energy
>> source that will supply electricity to run my entire place including a
>> couple of hot houses for fresh winter veggies.  ~Art
>
>Art, why do you need electricity to run hot houses in Arkansas? I'm way 
>north of you (northern VA, zone 6b), and I grow salads and cooking 
>greens and other cold-hardy crops in my 20x48 ft hoophouse right thru 
>the winter without any added heat.
>
>Or do you need the electricicy to inflate a double plastic skin on the 
>greenhouse? Come to think of it, I do have electricity out there for 
>that purpose--to run a small blower for the inflation.
>
>~Harvey
>
>-- 
>Harvey in northern Va
>www.themodernhomestead.us
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