Hoop House Update

Even though it has been cool this spring, the plants in the hoop house have progressed quite well, and we have been harvesting turnips, lettuce and cilantro. Some peas and cabbage should be ready in a couple of weeks.

In the Hoop House

My plantings in the Hoop House have progressed fairly well. My peas, lettuce, spinach, turnips and cabbage transplants are progressing at a fair rate. Being that this is my first full season using it, I'm not sure what is a normal rate of growth in a hoop house. It has also been very cool and wet this spring.

Peas are doing really well

Lettuce

Cabbage

Cabbage Transplants

 Garlic outside the Hoop House is sprouting and doing well 

 I really thought that my spring spinach would do better than this!

I've moved my onion transplants out to the Hoop House, and I plan on starting my tomato seedlings by the end of this week. The soil is still too wet to do any tilling, but this Friday is supposed to nice and warm, and I have the day off! So we shall see...

Wintertime Hoop House Gardening/Give Peas a Chance

The Hoop House after yet another winter snowstorm, February 26th.

Even though it sometimes can be cold and partly cloudy outside, I have found that my Hoop House can buy me an extra 20-30 degrees during a partly cloudy to sunny day. It's not bad, but I need to work to retain some of that heat during the night so that I will not get too cold and damage the young plants.

I went out and planted my first seeds in the greenhouse on February 6^th.  I planted green peas, snow peas, turnips, lettuce and cilantro, which will soon be followed by spinach. As of February 27^th, I have noted the peas, turnips and lettuce emerging.

                                                          Emerging snow peas

                                                            Turnip seedlings

Being that this is my first season attempting to grow anything in the new Hoop House, I guess that I am going to have to consider any growing this year as just an experiment.