{"id":48464,"date":"2017-10-18T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=48464"},"modified":"2020-11-03T03:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T08:38:24","slug":"garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Bites: Make The Most Of Your Garden Hoop House, Year-Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of season extension always sounds nice, and when you finally get a hoop house, you realize what a value\u00a0it is. Growing food sooner in the spring and later into the fall\u2014maybe even through the winter\u2014is more work but even more reward. When it\u2019s hot enough to grow your crops outdoors, it might seem too hot inside to do anything useful, though, so the question becomes: \u201cWhat do I do with this hoop house in the summer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the case, of course, as Pam Dawling told a standing-room-only group at the Organic Growers School Spring Conference earlier this year. Dawling, author of <em>Sustainable Market Farming<\/em> (2013), takes part in making\u00a0enough organic produce for everyone at the 100-person Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia, with 3\u00bd acres and one hoop house. She offers the following ideas to make the most of your covered space year-round.<\/p>\n<h2>Remove The Plastic<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48467\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48467\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/26210946\/hoop-house-03-stereogab-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"hoop house cover off\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stereogab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stereogab<\/a>\/Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pulling plastic can be a pain, but for farmers with no space to spare, removing the plastic opens that area for typical gardening activity. Removing the plastic also allows rains to rebalance the salt content in the soil, which can build up under cover.<\/p>\n<h2>Increase Airflow<\/h2>\n<p>Add vents and fans at each end, and convert the hoop house sides to roll up.<\/p>\n<h2>Install Cooler Plastics<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48468\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48468\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/26211309\/hoop-house-02-yooperann-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"hoop house\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yooperann<\/a>\/Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Different greenhouse plastics diffuse light in different ways. Some plastics, including a clear bubble film\u2014think bubble wrap\u2014can keep your hoop house 10 degrees cooler than others.<\/p>\n<h2>Use Shade Cloth<\/h2>\n<p>Used properly, shade cloth can make it cooler inside your greenhouse than it is outside. At Twin Oaks Community, it takes four people about one hour to put on a shade cloth and 30 to 40 minutes to take it off. \u201cYou can grow very fast-growing cool-weather crops under shade cloth,\u201d Dawling says. This might be lettuce mix, arugula, baby kale, salad radishes or mustard greens.<\/p>\n<p>Your shade cloth should cover the whole hoop house lengthwise but likely will not cover it from side to side. Pull the shade cloth all the way down the south side of the structure, as that\u2019s where most of the sun is coming in, and worry less about the less-sunny north side.<\/p>\n<p>Dawling suggests a knitted, non-PVC shade cloth with a 40-percent shade for vegetables, 50 percent for flowers and 60 percent for cool-weather vegetables in hot weather. A heavier shade cloth\u201480 percent\u2014makes a hoop house an ideal place for curing and drying your harvest, too.<\/p>\n<h2>Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables<\/h2>\n<p>Dawling goes for crops they\u2019d like to have earlier\u2014tomatoes, peppers, etc.\u2014for a first planting in the spring and crops that grow in warmer climates\u2014baby ginger, turmeric, jicama\u2014for a subsequent summer planting. Also, crops that grow better in drier climates make sense, as you have control over the amount of water your high-tunnel plants receive, unlike Mother Nature\u2019s watering schedule.<\/p>\n<h2>Grow Seed Crops<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to save seeds, growing crops in an under-plastic environment could force them to seed faster. Dawson lists beans, peas, okra, overwintered brassicas, lettuce, beets and chard as options.<\/p>\n<h2>Grow Cover Crops<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYou can help to improve the organic matter in your soil, and if you\u2019re unfortunate enough to have weeds in there, you can help deal with those,\u201d Dawling says.<\/p>\n<p>Grow short-term cover crops, and don\u2019t allow them to go to seed. Brassica cover crops, such as mustard, can have a biofumigation effect on soil diseases, and legumes, such as soybeans and cowpeas, offer a nitrogen boost to your soil.<\/p>\n<p>Pair a brassica cover crop with soil solarization to combat fungal soil diseases and nematodes. Till the cover crop when it flowers, and prep your beds for the next crop you plan to grow. Cover the soil inside the hoop house with plastic, and close up the structure for four to eight weeks during the hottest weather. \u201cIt\u2019s just killing off the stuff near the surface,\u201d Dawling says, so soil life will evacuate to about 6 inches down, but it will come back.<\/p>\n<p>With all of the effort and expense that you\u2019ve put into getting a hoop house, you deserve to get the most out of it. With some creative thinking, this structure has something to offer even during the hottest months.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared in the July\/August issue of\u00a0<\/em>Hobby Farms<em>\u00a0magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some creative thinking, you can get the most out of your garden hoop house regardless of how hot temperatures are outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crops-gardening"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ag Bites: Make The Most Of Your Garden Hoop House, Year-Round - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With some creative thinking, you can get the most out of your garden hoop house regardless of how hot temperatures are outside.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ag Bites: Make The Most Of Your Garden Hoop House, Year-Round\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With some creative thinking, you can get the most out of your garden hoop house regardless of how hot temperatures are outside.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hobby Farms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hobbyfarms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-18T10:00:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-03T08:38:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/26211553\/hoop-house-01-indianapublicmedia-flickr.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"462\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lisa Munniksma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@hobbyfarms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@hobbyfarms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lisa Munniksma\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lisa Munniksma\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4dfc8781a0e53d60a97d1137955a52c2\"},\"headline\":\"Ag Bites: Make The Most Of Your Garden Hoop House, Year-Round\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-18T10:00:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-03T08:38:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/\"},\"wordCount\":749,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/garden-hoop-house-tips-year-round\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/26211553\/hoop-house-01-indianapublicmedia-flickr.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Crops &amp; 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