Garden high tunnels

Bean tunnels make picking easy, create shady areas in the garden, and make a great fort for kids. Here’s the method we recommend for building a bean tunnel.

For a small investment you can double your food production. Words: Ben Gaia Whether home-made or custom-designed, having a large covered area in our climate enables us to extend our range of growing times and species. Veges can be grown right through the frosty months, providing salads and peas for home use. Propagating under cover gets your seedlings going weeks ahead of normal, allowing for late spring planting after frosts. Spring sees the propagating trays fill the floor and every…

To create an environment where you can grow plants for longer than the season allows you then consider creating your own high tunnel from one of these ideas

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Night Shade High Tunnel

Kathi Dunphy Watercolors: The high tunnel greenhouse is finished!

Our experience with getting a high tunnel for free with a NRCS high tunnel grant. Here's what you need to know.

Walking Through My Tunnel Trellis Garden Tunnel Idea #trellisidea #garden #veggiegarden. Kabsat · Original audio

Through a reimbursement grant, the NRCS high tunnel program makes purchasing a high tunnel easy. We outline the NRCS high tunnel program, and provide steps to receive grant funding

Morgan Sharpe on Instagram: "Year 7 growing ranunculus and my first year growing them in a tunnel and I finally understand why farmers say that everything grows better in a tunnel! Most people think it’s the heat that a tunnel provides that encourages this sort of growth, but this tunnel actually gets colder at night than my field grown flowers! Here’s 3 reasons why tunnels can improve the overall growth and quality of your plants (I’ve learned most of these things from you all)! • light…

Low tunnels push spring four to six weeks forward by increasing air and soil temperatures and protecting plants from mild to moderate freezes. When I fill a low tunnel with lettuce, cabbage and other cool-season vegetables in March, many are ready to harvest before my last frost...

Homesteaders who are trying to earn a portion of their income by selling produce must find a way to increase the amount of growing time their Hardiness Zone gives them. If your growing season is twenty weeks, making the bulk of your income from your garden is going to be difficult. If

Make high tunnels more profitable for crop production by installing a system to catch, store, and reuse the rainwater from periodic rain events. The authors describe system components, give approximate costs, and detail year-round maintenance procedures. Also described is a drip irrigation system.

A high tunnel is a protective elongated structure covering your soil, wherein you plant your plants directly in the ground as you normally would.

Growing food is powerful. It’s empowering, it quite literally roots you. But most importantly it offers an alternative from total reliance on...

Don't miss this brief analysis of polytunnel path layouts! Ever thought about creating a keyhole-shaped polytunnel path? Read how maximising edge can improve the productivity of your polytunnel!

Tunnel Garden Design And Idea Trellis Idea DIY Project #gardenideas #gardendesign #veggiegarden #tunnelgarden. Kabsat · Original audio

In this DIY dispatch, regular contributor, Lily Jackson, tells her family's story of building a 14.5' x 32' high tunnel.

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