10 July 2012

Our beautiful (hoop)house


Construction on our hoophouse finally began last week after months of waiting, and was completed in a mere two days! Since we missed out on the season for greenhouse tomatoes, we're planting a cover crop now to enrich the soil before we plant greens upon greens upon greens for the winter months.

The whole cleared area during construction.
 Our greenhouse is built on a metal track, so it can roll from one end of our plot to the other. This way we can rotate crops and replenish the soil season to season.




4 comments:

long lane farm said...

For more info on hoophouses like ours, check out Yona's blog post about the hoophouses at Star Light Gardens in Durham, CT: http://palomaintheprarie.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/a-slam-dunk-in-the-hoop-houses/

Sophie said...

So glad this project two years in the coming has finally been realized! go long lane!!

Delphine said...

It's so beautiful!!

Anonymous said...

I pictured something so much more primitive and small. That is gorgeous! You will do great things with it.