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Tag Archives: lettuce
Hoop House Lettuce Update
It’s been five weeks since our great snowfall at the end of March and now we are in our rainy season. The hoop house lettuce has taken off and we’ve started harvesting for the farmers market. I’ve kept the hoop … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, farm, food, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, hoop house, lettuce, mini-farm, planting
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Simple PVC Hoop House Weathers The Blizzard
After writing last Friday’s post about the simple homemade PVC hoop house and talking about how it can weather snow storms, lo and behold we had the heaviest snow storm we’ve had in years over the weekend. We set records … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, farm, garden, garden bed, gardening, homemade, homestead, homesteading, hoop house, lettuce, mini-farm, pvc, pvc hoop house
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Extending Fall Lettuce Harvest With Floating Row Covers and Other Tips
Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in the U.S.! We’ve enjoyed another great Thanksgiving as a family and we pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well. There is much for us to be thankful for, and one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, eliot coleman, fall gardening, fall harvest, farm, floating row cover, food, garden, gardening, greens, growing, homestead, lettuce, mini-farm, planting, row cover, season extender, wide row
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