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  • From: Gary Brever <gbrever AT yahoo.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] snow.
  • Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:21:08 -0800 (PST)

I was thinking of you folks in the East Coast yesterday when I was shoveling off snow from our hoop houses, wondering if you all knew to do this. I wish i would have spoke up sooner and could have helped you save your hoop houses.
 We lost our first round style greenhouse 3 years ago after 12 inches of snow.  This year in MN we have gotten more snow than in the past 10 or so years.  Each of the snow falls have come in quantities of less than 8 inches so I was able to just go out each time and push off the snow.  Here's what i do... I turn of the blower fan and wait about 10 minutes so the air in our double plastic is out.  then I take a push broom and push from up from the inside of the hoophouse and it slides right off.
      One of the problems though with accumulated snow is that I now have banks reaching 6 feet on both sides of our hoop house. Our one hoop quansit house goes to the ground with very little straight up and down on the bottom of the hoops.  Because of this..  the banks of snow are now getting very heavy on the bottom of the plastic. so i now have to spend  a lot of time shoveling 6 feet banks of snow!!!  It is one of the times that I'm thankful that I only have 2 greenhouses 80' long. 
 




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