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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel
- From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:01:16 -0400
For the sake of discussion
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The meetings I attended told of "high tunnels"
being a season extender, protecting from a few degrees of frost and accelerating
the crop by raising daytime temperatures a few degrees. These structures were of
the lightest frame; plastic pipe, re-bar, wood, tubing, with poly cover pulled
over and held in place by minimal dirt, rocks, sandbags; not or minimally
attached to the frame.
It was the plan of those folk, and their thinking
was morrored by the folk from Haygrove, that these units were to have near
zero in snow or wind load and that they come apart in winds with little or no
damage to the parts. Users reported gathering up their covers and putting them
back in place a few times each spring, before removing and storing them during
the summer.
At this place, were I to have repeated destructive
failures of structures I would have to consider that I was asking the wrong
system to do the wrong job in the wrong environment.
MAsteveINE
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic or high tunnel,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 06/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel,
MAsteveINE, 06/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel,
Road's End Farm, 06/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plasticorhigh tunnel,
BarbaraJ, 06/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losingplasticorhigh tunnel, Beth Spaugh, 06/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plasticorhigh tunnel, MAsteveINE, 06/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plasticorhigh tunnel,
BarbaraJ, 06/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel,
Road's End Farm, 06/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Advice on how to deal with losing plastic orhigh tunnel,
MAsteveINE, 06/22/2010
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