Courtesy of James K., Virtually Green, San Francisco, CA In northern China, solar passive commercial greenhouses cover over 1.8 million acres. These greenhouses typically use no supplemental lighting, and little or no heating, to produce vegetables from Fall through Spring. It’s a highly evolved and very commercially successful design, and...
Courtesy of Scott W., Growing Gardeners Calgary Urban Farms , Calgary AB I am setting up a 50’x12′ hoop house this. I was going to order greenhouse poly from Johnny’s, but a few people have recommended using vapor barrier as it stands up to hail better, is cheaper, easier to...
Courtesy of John Sealander, Blue Ribbon Eggs, Franklin, NC There have always been droughts and floods and storms and hurricanes. When you save your own seed you are naturally and spontaneously breeding to the range of your typical conditions, and as you select over time you are developing -without much effort- produce...
Courtesy of Barb McK. , Mountain View Meadows Farm, Elbert CO Due to money and time constraints, and my recollection of how I fought against my native prairie grass moving inside the fencing of my garden and then creeping under raised beds that I had about 15 years ago, I’ve...
Courtesy of Brenda S., Thompson Street Farm, Glastonbury CT For winter sales of micro greens, I’m doing about 20 trays a week to start. I have a winter market through December 22nd,so I will see how demand is. If I can control the temperature in the greenhouse I will do...
Courtesy of John S., Blue RIbbon Eggs, Franklin NC Your complaint about low yields is a common one for ‘Potatoes in Bags’ (or barrels or any other elevated growing system). My theory is that potatoes are a natural mountain crop evolving in very cool soils at high elevation, and we...
Courtesy of Brenda S., Thompson Street Farm, Glastonbury CT I’ve only been growing commercially for a few years (but have been hobby gardening for 16 yrs) and live in central CT. I still have so much to learn. Last year we built a 14 x 24 green house. We built...
Courtesy of Brenda S., Thompson Street Farm, Glastonbury CT To avoid shocking my leafy greens, I either water in the early morning or late afternoon when the sun is set enough to cool off the hoses. We are on a well, so the hot water in the hoses isn’t that much...
Courtesy of Brenda S., Thompson Street Farm, Glastonbury CT I try and get 3 cuttings from my arugula, depending on how hot it is before clearing the bed. The more you cut the more fibrous the arugula gets. So I try to stay on the more tender side of things....
Courtesy of Brenda S., Thompson Street Farm, Glastonbury CT I use the # 10 size Pac Sell bag, which is big enough to hold 1 lb. of greens, which is the quantity I sell  to my restaurant client.  For the farmers market , I use the same #10 bag, but...
