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  • From: Jay Atkerson <jay AT mcreccwb.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Favorite vegetable varieties
  • Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:30:56 -0600

Since i am planning my 2010 garden seed order, I would like favorite sweet corn, cucumbers, yellow squash, indeterminate tomato and French style green pole and bush beans.

Thanks

Jay
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Today's Topics:

1. Re: venting low tunnels (E C GRANATA)
2. Greenhouses and snow (Ken Bezilla)
3. Re: Greenhouses and snow (Beth Spaugh)
4. Re: Greenhouses and snow (MAsteveINE)
5. Re: Greenhouses and snow (SaladG AT aol.com)
6. Re: Greenhouses and snow (MAsteveINE)
7. Re: venting low tunnels (Allan Balliett)
8. Re: Greenhouses and snow (saladg AT aol.com)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:16:23 -0700
From: E C GRANATA <elainegranata AT msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] venting low tunnels
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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I've seen slitted plastic row covers in someone's catalogue. The warm air, as it rises, pushes against the slits and open them, thus venting the tunnel. Haven't tried them, so don't know how they well they work.



Elaine

Denver



From: bcarden AT breckinridgegroup.com
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:29:03 -0500
Subject: [Market-farming] venting low tunnels







Ok folks help me out here.
I have seen Coleman use plastic over low tunnels and it appears he is hand venting when necessary. Do you have any experience with low tunnels using some sort of automatic or self-venting system. Have you used slitted plastic? Auto openers? I am located at the Mason- Dixon Line and it can heat up fast in tunnels.


Thanks,
Farmer Breck
Breck Carden
Carden?s Garden
2400 E Hwy 22
Crestwood, KY 40014-7704
breck AT breckcarden.com
www.breckcarden.com




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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:10:11 +0000
From: Ken Bezilla <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
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How much snow does it take to affect greenhouses at their sides/base?

Here in Virginia we've already had at least 8" on snow, with 12" more on the way (?!!??)

We're knocking the snow off of our not-designed-for-heavy-snow greenhouses, but of course the snow's just sliding down the sides and piling up at the base... at some point do we need to start shoveling snow away from the sides so that there isn't undue pressure on the sides?

Ken Bezilla
Acorn Community Farm
central VA



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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:21:37 -0500
From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
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I mostly go inside and put my hip or back up against the side plastic and
push it out 3 to 4 inches. Sometimes I've had to sit on the ground and lean
back to do it, sometimes push sideways. That also gives an air space to get
my hands or shovel in to go ahead and remove the snow. Usually it is packed
enough that I can just grab big chunks and throw/lay them aside.



Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY

Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com <http://rhomestead.com/ >

Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and
geese



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Wendell Berry



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Moore Lappe

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Subject: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow



How much snow does it take to affect greenhouses at their sides/base?

Here in Virginia we've already had at least 8" on snow, with 12" more on the
way (?!!??)

We're knocking the snow off of our not-designed-for-heavy-snow greenhouses,
but of course the snow's just sliding down the sides and piling up at the
base... at some point do we need to start shoveling snow away from the sides
so that there isn't undue pressure on the sides?

Ken Bezilla
Acorn Community Farm
central VA




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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:35:51 -0500
From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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It;s mostly a matter of how well you can sleep with how many dollars on the line outside; some guys will keep every possible snowflake off their house while the neighbor goes to sleep for the night planning to order a replacement house in the morning if necessary. Most of us are somewhere in the middle of that!

"Not-designed-for-heavy-snow" houses are generally of the half round shape (rather than gothic shape)
and have a rather flat area at the top that holds snow which can cause failure with moderate amounts of snow; so step one would be to have a snow rake and keep the top unloaded.

It is advisable between storms to keep the area beside the house free of snow build-up so that you can shovel/plow when a biggie comes along.

Many growers have 2 x 4 or 2 x 6 pieces enough so that they can be placed under the arch centers
and act as props, many turn the heat to max during snow storms to melt some of the load, lots spend their time out there shoveling. When all else seems to be not enough the poly gets slashed between
the arches allowing the snow to fall in but saving the frame.

In 10 years with a company that sold several hundred greenhouses, mostly north of PA, the largest
single snowfall I was aware of was at the Luray/Elkto VA area, so dont be thinking you are alone.

MAsteveINE
















MAsteveINE
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:16:18 EST
From: SaladG AT aol.com
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
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we have Atlas building and built on 4' spacing and have been through 30" of
very wet snow and have had no problems, and one year I had a drift
completely covering one of our building and had no problem. The only building I
ever lost was due to a summer thunderstorm that was loaded with wind bursts,
and it only went because a door was left open.

Phil form cold Iowa
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:34:16 -0500
From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
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Is that Atlas of CT or Atlas of GA?

MAsteveINE
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:45:11 -0500
From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] venting low tunnels
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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hopefully, someone has more experience with low tunnels. The whole
concept drives me nuts: the fear of overheating, the fear of under
ventilating. I've put in many of the two bed low tunnels but, to this
point, have kept heavy remay on them, afraid of the commitment the
plastic brings. In truth, though, for much of the time, here in the
mid-atlantic (but not today!), the hoops could be left open both day
and night, with closing becoming the 'imposition,' rather than
'opening.'

does anyone know if coleman uses thermometers in the low tunnels?

-Allan in WV


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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:47:02 EST
From: saladg AT aol.com
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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Atlas of Ga.
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