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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
>rootsfarm AT marpin.dm <mailto:rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
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[Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Karen Sutherland, 11/14/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Allan Balliett, 11/14/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Karen Sutherland, 11/14/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Lucy Goodman, 11/14/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Karen Sutherland, 11/14/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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[Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Kevin Wilson, 11/14/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Allan Balliett, 11/14/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Karen Sutherland, 11/14/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Bill Shoemaker, 11/15/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Willie McKemie, 11/15/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Janet Bachmann, 11/15/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Tradingpost, 11/15/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels, Karen Sutherland, 11/15/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Janet Bachmann, 11/15/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Alan Whitaker, 11/21/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Janet Bachmann, 11/22/2004
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[Market-farming] Hard soil inside the High tunnels,
Marlin Burkholder, 11/22/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Hard soil inside the High tunnels, marcy, 11/23/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Hard soil inside the High tunnels,
Sandra Beerman, 11/23/2004
- [Market-farming] Hard soil inside the High tunnels, Tom at Limerock, 11/23/2004
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[Market-farming] Hard soil inside the High tunnels,
Marlin Burkholder, 11/22/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Janet Bachmann, 11/22/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Willie McKemie, 11/15/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] QUESTION: High tunnels,
Allan Balliett, 11/14/2004
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