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  • Late Winter Gardening & Apple Tree Pruning : DIY Video

    Late Winter Gardening & Apple Tree Pruning : DIY Video

    An early spring tour of the vegetable garden, where Eric talks about using a hoop house cold frame to get an early start on spring vegetable plants, and how to grow sugar snap peas, plus some of eric’s thoughts on how to prune fruit trees like the old apple tree in the yard. Plus the Labrador Retrievers, of course.

    In this video we talked about how to make a cold frame hoop house, and you can see that DIY video on our site here

    Buy the thermatic vents here: http://amzn.to/2zG4WjC

    To learn more about how to start seeds, make seed starting plant pots, seed starting, and growing plants in seed starting trays, watch our video How to start seeds video here.
    What are you doing to get a head start on the growing season, what season extenders are you using? Let us know below:

  • Cold Frame Hoop House Plans and Update

    Cold Frame Hoop House Plans and Update

    Here are some hoop house plans and photos of the small hoop house we use for cold weather greens. We had a really warm weekend last week, so i pulled out the cold frame hoop house that we built in the How to make a hoop house cold frame video here. I put in a mix of salad greens and mesclun mix, place a wireless thermometer in, and left it to grow.

    I’ve gotten many requests for plans for the cold frame hoop house, you can get more info on all our hoop house cold frame plans here. Below i’ll post a few key photos to guide you along. This Cold Frame Hoop House plan is perfect for our raised garden beds.

    hoop house cold frame

     

    These hoop houses work really well with our raised vegetable beds. You can watch our How to Make Raised Garden Beds video on our site here.

    build a frame that will fit in your garden bed with 2x4 lumber
    build a frame that will fit in your garden bed with 2×4 lumber
    use narrow diameter PVC to arch across the frame
    use narrow diameter PVC to arch across the frame
    use electrical pipe holders to secure pipe arches
    use electrical pipe holders to secure pipe arches
    cut a plywood end that matches the arc of your hoop house cold frame. cut out a hole for the thermatic vent in the plywood
    cut a plywood end that matches the arc of your hoop house cold frame. cut out a hole for the thermatic vent in the plywood
    attach the plywood to one end of cold frame
    attach the plywood to one end of cold frame
    the view of the cold frame hoop house from inside.
    the view of the cold frame hoop house from inside.
    The cold frame hoop house fits just inside the raised bed. nice.
    The cold frame hoop house fits just inside the raised bed. nice.

    If you want to learn more about growing vegetables year round read Eliot Coleman’s Four Season Harvest book and Nikki Jabour’s Year Round Vegetable Gardener.