November 21, 2010

Update on disassembling new high tunnel

Today I got to spend 5 hours tearing down the new high tunnel at it's current home. I got alot done, but if I would have started earlier, I would have had hoops on the ground too!

Here is a little time lapse photo work!

Before
Before

North wall gone
North wall gone

South wall gone
South Wall Gone

Baseboard and center and right purlin gone
Baseboard and two purlins gone

All I have left is the left purlin and the 12 braces in the corners and we will be ready to take the hoops down. Finally, load it all up and head west!
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K-State Cauliflower

I have been eagerly anticipating this purple cauliflower. I ordered seed in mid January. The seed got back ordered and I didn't receive it until the May. I planted it and set these plants out in early June, a month or more late! The weather turned off HOT and the plants stopped growing. Bugs and grasshoppers ate the leaves to almost nothing. Then in August they started to grow again and finally on November 20th, I have purple cauliflower. It has been a long wait, but oh-so good! Now I wish the other 50 or so I planted in August would do something, but I know it is too late. I must get them in sooner next year!

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We also picked some white cauliflower and broccoli along with yellow and orange carrots. Who says we can't eat the rainbow?

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November 7, 2010

We are growing again

We are the proud new owners of a used 30 by 48 ft Stuppy's Powerhouse Greenhouse. We are going to use this huge metal frame for a high tunnel. This high tunnel will give us an additional 1,440 square feet of growing space. I am very excited about it. I will have to tear it down and rebuild it at our house, but who isn't up for an adventure.

Here is a picture of the greenhouse in its current location.

New Hoop House

Here is a picture of the endwall

End wall of new hoop house

My hopes are to have in down over Thanksgiving Break and start working at putting it back up ASAP. I hope I can get the ground posts in at least before the ground freezes solid.
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