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- From: "nan and stewart" <stewart AT watervalley.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: more greenhouse clarifying questions!
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:59:56 -0500
| Hi folks, this is nan again....forgive lack of 
knowledge, but what is IR (alison?)  and  Lynn - what are the 40 inch sidewalls that you roll 
up in summer (does this refer  to your greenhouse plastic that you can roll 
up so sides are open, but you still have plastic over the top....Is it tacked up 
with boards on the bottom end that then the plastic rolls aroudn?  and do 
you put shade cloth over the remaining top plastic for the summer 
usage) If I go with the double plastic inflated with 
little fan system, per Alison's model, does this give me better wind resistance, 
or not relevant?  Can you then roll up the system in summer to have a 
completely open frame (i.e. no plastic at all, for summer vegetables, which here 
in Miss., unlike New England, get ALL THE HEAT THEY NEED OR WANT!) Does this seasonal removal of plastic compromise 
the integrity of the double layer w/ air system? Or maybe it is actually a good idea to leave 
plastic on top, with sides rolled up, and put shade cloth so that it will be 
COOLER than normal in the summer, or maybe cooler in late summer when I want to 
put in the cole crops in July (the recommended planting time here to harvest for 
fall sales) YEEPS....I can see that some of this will just have 
to be trial and error.....sigh..... Having come from Massachusetts, but now in Miss. ,I 
am wary of applying anything that is learned up north to the situation here 
(even though I love Eliot Coleman's books and such) Another structural question: If I build a greenhouse with roll up sides, will 
this leave me more vulnerable to winds that would then rip it all to 
pieces? again, many thanks from nan and the 
goats | 
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        more greenhouse clarifying questions!,
        nan and stewart, 01/30/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Wiediger, Alison, 01/30/2001
- Re: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Lynn Byczynski, 01/30/2001
- Re: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Joan Vibert, 01/30/2001
- Re: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Bill Shoemaker, 01/30/2001
- Re: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Bill Shoemaker, 01/30/2001
- Re: more greenhouse clarifying questions!, Bill Shoemaker, 01/30/2001
 
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