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The Hoophouse Handbook: Growing Produce and Flowers in Hoophouses and High Tunnels
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Product Description
A hoophouse is a low-cost, low-tech greenhouse structure that is erected right in the field so plants can be grown in the ground but with some protection from the elements. Hoophouses rely on the sun for heat and natural ventilation for cooling. Hoophouses have been widely used in Europe for decades. Now growers everywhere are discovering the many benefits of growing in a hoophouse: 1. Crops get an earlier start in spring and can be produced later in fall. 2. Cold-hardy crops can be grown all winter. 3. Crops that can't be grown outside because of wind thrive in a hoophouse. 4. Yield and quality in most crops are greatly improved. The Hoophouse Handbook provides an essential introduction to hoophouse horticulture. It describes the most profitable crops to grow, including cut flowers, early and heirloom tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, salad greens. It offers advice on how to buy, site and build a hoophouse. With more than 50 photos and illustrations, The Hoophouse Handbook makes it easy to get started with this profitable farm business.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #62172 in Books
- Published on: 2006-12-19
- Released on: 2006-12-19
- Binding: Single Issue Magazine
- 60 pages
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About the Author
Lynn Byczynski is the editor and publisher of Growing for Market, a monthly newsletter for market gardeners and farmers. She is the author of Market Farming Success, and The Flower Farmer.
Customer Reviews
Hoop House Advocate
I live in the Midwest where corn and soybeans are the predominate agricultural product. The only hoop houses in the area are those erected by retail businesses who sell bedding plants to the public. I have helped raise one of those hoophouses in a parking lot. Lynn Byczynski's directions on how to raise one in the field is more to my needs. It is good to have a source of information that will help me do so. I am sure I am going to get a lot of comments and questions when I do. But, I know from this book that it can be a profitable adventure well worth the time.
Gardening for the future
This is a great book. Good information. Description excellent. Service Great. The contents illustrate a way of gardening for the future for both commercial growers and the home gardener. The cost of the hoop tunnel is comparably inexpensive with a payback for just a couple of years.
