by Noel | May 13, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I set up a hoop tunnel on April 30th and began moving plants into it the next day. Double Hoop on Tunnel Ends This year, I made the ends double, using two pieces of PVC tubing at each end instead of one. This provided a lot more rigidity to the whole structure and made for much easier venting and closing using welders clamps. Trenched Onion Starts The first plants into the tunnel were onion and leeks, which I transplanted from flats to trenches. Sweet...
by Noel | May 25, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
Inexpensive and easy to erect low hoop tunnels can save the home gardener a lot of work in getting seed starts into the garden. For the past several years I’ve nearly eliminated the tedious chores of carting flats of vegetables outdoors and back inside daily to harden them off. Additionally, I don’t have to pot off seedlings to larger containers. Instead, I merely transfer sprouted seedlings directly to the soil in the bed under the hoop tunnel. There are...
by Noel | Oct 28, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Carrots in Hoop TunnelI planted a bed of carrots and beets on August 12th. Here are the carrots, eleven weeks later. They’re doing great and we’re harvesting some fairly large ones, already. The beets are doing just fine, too. I’m hoping to keep the harvest going well past when the hard freezes set in by using a low hoop tunnel with two protective layers. The outside frame of the tunnel is covered with clear poly sheeting. Directly over the...
