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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Roots Farm" <rootsfarm AT tiger.marpin.dm>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels
  • Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:06:54 -0600

You might want to consider plastic covers permanently and irrigate with drip
underneath. Florida vegetable growers are adopting this and finding reduced
disease problems/better plant health and greater productivity and quality.



-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Sutherland <ksutherland AT hampshire.edu>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels


>I've never used high tunnels and am wondering if they would be adaptable
>to our rotations in this rainy windy tropical climate. For example, if
>we were growing peppers or tomatoes, we would need bird netting as
>cover, but when it's broccoli or beans we might want the cover to be
>plastic to control rain, and when it's lettuce or cilantro, maybe shade
>cloth. Is it nuts to think about the covers being so interchangeable?
>Are there designs for high tunnels that would facilitate such
>(2-3x/year) changes of covering (or perhaps the addition of a shade
>cloth or plastic covering over a permanent bird netting)? Is it
>advisable for all thumbs (green though) folks to build by self or better
>to buy kit? Are high tunnels workable on sloped land or need the
>surface be pretty flat? Any advice, suggestions, experience, thoughts
>would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks and Best wishes to all,
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>Karen
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>*Karen Sutherland **
>**Roots Farm**
>Organic Produce : Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs*
>Cockrane, Dominica
>767-449-3038
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