Double Covered Hoop Tunnel

by | 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...

Cold Frame

by | Mar 21, 2011 | CobraHead

I built this cold frame in January with a lot of help from my friend David Peterson who built a duplicate model for himself at the same time.  David is retired, lucky guy, and he has put together a really well equipped workshop with lots of woodworking equipment to keep occupied. We were discussing cold frames over dinner quite a while back and I let David know that I had a whole lot of 1/4″ clear glass sheets about 2 feet by 6 feet that I thought might be...

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