I reviewed your slideshows on crop rotation and also cool crop planning in the greenhouse (which briefly addresses salad brassica rotation with other crops). Neversink farm, etc), and yet I’ve always been taught that it is such an important principle to follow. These days I see intensive market gardeners seeming to not worry so much about rotation (i.e. In the winter 2019-2020, a reader in the Pacific Northwest wrote: “This winter I have been re-thinking my crop rotation plan after having some issues (with flea beetle larvae in the soil outsmarting my diligent insect netting of my brassica salad crops). Photo Pam Dawling Do you value crop rotation in your hoophouse? Starting transplants outdoors helps the rotation by reducing the time the crop is growing in the hoophouse – Hoophouse seedlings growing outdoors under insect netting. Includes sad photos of the casualties!Īlso see my Mother Earth News blogpost from August 2018 Grow Great Lettuce in Winter Young green Panisse and red Revolution lettuce in our hoophouse in November.Ĭold-tolerant lettuce and the rest, our January 2018 assessment of the varieties we grew that winter and which survived the unusually cold spell we had. Making baby salad mix includes a discussion of ingredients and methods, balancing nutrition, color, shape and loft. What’s growing in the hoophouse reading planning for winter is an October view of crops.įrilly Mustards in our Winter Hoophouse is exactly what it sounds like. Sowing hoophouse winter crops includes some discussion of the tools we like pre-sprouting spinach seed and growing multi-leaf lettuce. My first mix was spinach, Bulls Blood beet leaves, a few leaves of Tokyo Bekana, Bright Lights chard, Scarlet Frills, Ruby Streaks and Golden Frills, and a handful of lettuce leaves Red Tinged Winter is growing fastest, of all the varieties we planted this year. The ingredient we are shortest of is lettuce. The past two days I have been able to harvest a mix in the hoophouse. I wrote about Making baby salad mix last year. Ultimately if we don’t need them, they’ll go in a salad mix. Plan D: Winstrip seed flats in our hoophouse on Oct 16, a late attempt to catch up! We ended up not needing so many of the Plan D plug flat plants, but we’ve kept them for now “in case”. The new seedlings are coming up fast and calling on us to thin them. Most of the transplants have recovered from their transplant shock (wilting each day), during the cloudy weather we had. I’m happy to say our soil structure has improved in the 18 years since this photo was taken!Īfter the set-backs with our winter hoophouse greens transplants that I wrote about in Hoophouse fall bed prep Plans A-D and spider-webs, we worked really hard and got the whole house planted up. Hoophouse bed broadforked to loosen up slumped soil. Hoophouse fall bed prep Plans A-D and spider-webs includes some lovely spider photos and a short video of ballooning, as well as info about our first-planted winter crops. Planning winter hoophouse crops includes a description of how we do our hoophouse crop planning so we can maintain a crop rotation and still pack the beds fully with hardy crops.įall hoophouse bed prep and shadecloth removal includes spreading compost, broadforking, and a step-by-step guide to hoophouse fall bed prep. For those with a hoophouse, here are some notes on all the work we can do to grow winter crops there! For those without a hoophouse as yet, scroll to the end for Twenty Benefits of Having a Hoophouse First, a roundup of previous blogposts on winter hoophouse topics. Last week I wrote about Winter Preparations for Vegetable Gardens. Hoophouse Yukina savoy at the end of November.
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