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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] winter crops
  • Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:31:21 -0500

I'm gonna use floating row covers inside my (Farmtek) Hoop House.  Here in Central Texas that means maybe six nights a year, but it's easy enough to do more often.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Conine
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] winter crops

I'm with Joel Salatin on this one: I think "PVC" stands for
"Photo-Volatile Crap".
 Not recommended for anything outdoors, and unless you like picking up
little pieces of plastic all the time, don't use it. Metal conduit or
water pipe may cost a little more, but worth it in the long run. By the
time you get done monkeying around with pvc parts and failures, you can
spend a little money on a hoophouse kit.

I recommend Farmtek. Watch for sale offers and you can get a decent deal
that is easy to put together. http://www.farmtek.com

MAYBE use pvc for the inside hoophouse setup if you are going to do the
double setup. Then it is protected from wind and snow and at least some
of the UV.

The hog panel idea also works very well for small setups. Tape all the
sharp edges first, though.
I also recommend planting some solid poles for your ends on bigger
hoophouses. The drive-through idea with soft end panels is nice, but
winds are relentless once something starts flopping around, and you
can't get out and fix it in the middle of a storm.

Dan
Nature Creek Farm
Belgium,Wisconsin

> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Winter  crops
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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> I am sure that most of you know that a hoophouse of PVC pipe and a plastic sheet works great, also. 
>   
>   Coleman in ME uses a hoophouse inside a bigger hoophouse.
>   
>   Ken
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