Frost has killed my garden

[looknlearn]

looknlearn, that's not postin', that's braggin'! Wow! NICE! I am so jealous. I can just taste all that good stuff. I just moved my greenhouse up a few lines on my to-do list.:thumbsup:

BTW: I had some mulch that sat out all summer and got rained on several times. The bags had some holes and got soaked with water. When my wife when to spread the mulch last week, it was full of termites.:shocked: I told her to go ahead and spread it because as soon as it dried out the termites would die. It's been very dry here and I hope my advice was correct.

Thanks for the compliments. I am one of nine people in this household and what I mostly do is prepare the soil, make improvements, a lot of the grunt work around here. My Mom is the one who plants. But I do agree with you, that stuff looks good!
I don't know much about termites except that they are not welcomed house mates.
Here is a website that might help.http://www.termiteweb.com/

what are the blue barrels for? and did you make the frame yourself?

The barrels are for drip irrigation. We were trying and hoping to make a gravity drip irrigation system to water the hoop house - fill the barrels in the morning and let gravity do the work the rest of the day. It never crossed my mind that in a hoop house, all the water that the plants drink has to be supplied artificially because of no rain. This was a huge job when we grew tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pole beans this last summer especially since the added heat of the hoop house evaporated the water out of the soil very quickly. But, it was a huge advantage in weed control. We didn't water it all winter and up until the plants were planted this allowed the heat to kill all the weeds in the beginning which means weeding was very minimal the rest of the year.

Yes we did build the frame with some help on a volunteer day. My Dad is a carpenter and so he built the end walls and a jig was made to make the bends in the conduit.
With a bunch of people making the bends and Dad, Me and some helping hands working on the end walls, that frame went up in a day. The plastic was put up the following day.
The materials were donated by some program that donated the hoop house and retained owner ship for a year and if the hoop house was not used or maintained well they could remove it. We past the year point and it is now ours.:thumbsup:

 

[forgeblast]

Thats awesome, how warm does it stay in the winter time? you can get some nasty snow up there, does it handle it (the hoop house) well? Sorry for the 50 questions but im looking in a year or two to do a hoop house do you have a pic of the bending jig?
thank you so much.

 

[looknlearn]

Thats awesome, how warm does it stay in the winter time? you can get some nasty snow up there, does it handle it (the hoop house) well? Sorry for the 50 questions but im looking in a year or two to do a hoop house do you have a pic of the bending jig?
thank you so much.

In the winter the daytime temp. is probably around 40 and maybe on a good day 50?.(I have not seen a measurement yet) It gets plenty cold at night but the ground never freezes in there the whole winter. If it were heated it would be quite warm.
The hoop house handles the snow well so far. We have to knock it off after a snow fall so the sun can warm the inside of the hoop house.


Unfortunately, I could not find a pic of the bending jig, but I can remember what it was so I'll try to make a drawing and post that this afternoon sometime.

 

[forgeblast]

Impressive, remindes me winter is right around the corner. Thank you too for the drawing, I really apprecaite it.

 

[ArtMech]

Well Jack Frost has finally had his way with my tomatoes. We have had fresh tomatoes on the vines until last week. Now, my wife has picked the last 15 pounds of semi-ripe tomatoes and they are ripening indoors. I have cherry tomatoes from my garden on every salad and even slicing tomatoes, though they have been pretty small. Kathy put up 8 pints of tomato sauce last week. I feel really lucky to have tomatoes and butternut squash fresh from our garden this late in the year. Does anyone else still have a garden?

Seems long distances don't change the human nature. All You have written in a thread we are doing exactly in the same way, including planting of cherry kind of tomatoes among the others. This summer we had extremely hot.
So right now we're near to finish ripened indoors tomatoes - only 7 units remaining

The salad we're preparing in summer and early autumn consists of: tomatoes, cucumber, green onion, lettuce, coriander and parsley. All mentioned are from our own garden. We also add some salt, pepper and sour cream or sunflower oil.
That fresh salad for me is the dish of God. Smells fantastic!

Next year I'll built a greenhouse (I have it already) too to have tomatoes and cucumber earlier (in June).

 

[looknlearn]

Well here is my attempt at drawing. This is the basic idea of what we had and it seemed to bend the pipe farely well. If it doesn't make any sense I can try again.


If people want a more detailed account of the hoop house project I can start a new thread and describe it in more detail.

 

[jinman]

The salad we're preparing in summer and early autumn consists of: tomatoes, cucumber, green onion, lettuce, coriander and parsley. All mentioned are from our own garden. We also add some salt, pepper and sour cream or sunflower oil.
That fresh salad for me is the dish of God. Smells fantastic!

Arthur, I've always considered salad a main dish rather than a side dish. There is something about a fresh crisp salad on a hot day that is both refreshing and not too filling. The many flavors and blends is a symphony to my taste buds.:thumbsup:

Your recipe for salad had me licking my lips. It's funny that you mentioned coriander. Here, we call the fresh leaves cilantro and the seeds coriander. I am especially fond of a Mexican dish called pico de gallo (translates to "rooster's beak"). It is made with fresh tomatoes, chopped onions, cilantro, chili pepper, lime juice, and sometimes cucumber, radish, or mango and a touch of quality olive oil.

 

[looknlearn]

Arthur, I've always considered salad a main dish rather than a side dish. There is something about a fresh crisp salad on a hot day that is both refreshing and not too filling. The many flavors and blends is a symphony to my taste buds.:thumbsup:

Nothing beats a good salad. Sometimes we will have salad as the main dish. One HUGE bowl of salad and then some toppings to enhance.:licking::licking::licking:

 

[ArtMech]

Arthur, I've always considered salad a main dish rather than a side dish. There is something about a fresh crisp salad on a hot day that is both refreshing and not too filling. The many flavors and blends is a symphony to my taste buds.:thumbsup:

Your recipe for salad had me licking my lips. It's funny that you mentioned coriander. Here, we call the fresh leaves cilantro and the seeds coriander. I am especially fond of a Mexican dish called pico de gallo (translates to "rooster's beak"). It is made with fresh tomatoes, chopped onions, cilantro, chili pepper, lime juice, and sometimes cucumber, radish, or mango and a touch of quality olive oil.

Sorry, I new you in N. America call coriander in other way, but was lazy to check how By the way in my language leaves of cilantro are called 'kalendra' and its seed - 'kalendros sekla'.
OK, I don't think You're ready for the philology lessons over here:laughing:

Yes, cilantro is for summer, but crashed to powder coriander we use to "perfume" the dishes from the time we get it, till we'll have fresh leaves next year again. I'm a fan of its specific smell.

Thank You for recipe of pico de galo. Some ingredients, which we're not able to plant (like chili, lime, mango), we may purchase. I can't wait to taste it :licking:

 

[ArtMech]

Nothing beats a good salad. Sometimes we will have salad as the main dish. One HUGE bowl of salad and then some toppings to enhance.:licking::licking::licking:

Tucker,
Very impressive greenhouse You have!!
How do You change or add the ground inside? Or You're just opening the plastic to refresh it?

I'm gonna build a greenhouse so that 2 persons would be able to lift it up and to put it in the other place of garden when needed.