The Year-Round Hoophouse : Polytunnels for All Seasons and All Climates
Growing in hoophouses reduces the impact of increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends growing seasons, and strengthens regional food supply. The Year-Round Hoophouse teaches how to site, design, and build a hoophouse and successfully grow abundant produce all year...
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Gabriola Island :
New Society Publishers,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title Page
- Rights Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Design, Siting and Construction
- Chapter 1: Hoophouse Siting and Planning
- Chapter 2: Style and Design
- Chapter 3: Shopping Checklist
- Chapter 4: Preparing the Site and the Base
- Chapter 5: Utilities
- Chapter 6: Frame Assembly, Baseboards and Hipboards
- Chapter 7: End Walls
- Chapter 8: Roof Plastic
- Chapter 9: Drip Irrigation and Outfitting Your Hoophouse
- Part Two: Growing Crops
- Chapter 10: Lettuce
- Chapter 11: Other Salad Greens
- Chapter 12: Cooking Greens
- Chapter 13: Root Crops
- Chapter 14: Alliums
- Chapter 15: Legumes
- Chapter 16: Tomatoes
- Chapter 17: Peppers and Eggplants
- Chapter 18: Cucurbits
- Chapter 19: Crops for High Summer
- Chapter 20: Bare-Root Transplants
- Chapter 21: Seed Crops
- Part Three: Keeping Everything Working Well
- Chapter 22: Planning and Record-Keeping
- Chapter 23: Cold Weather Care
- Chapter 24: Hot Weather Care
- Chapter 25: Succession Crops
- Chapter 26: Crop Rotations and Sequences
- Chapter 27: Pests and Diseases
- Chapter 28: Salt Build-Up
- Chapter 29: Feeding the Soil
- Chapter 30: Replacing the Plastic
- Chapter 31: Preparing for and Coping with Disasters
- Resources
- Index
- About the Author
- About New Society Publishers
- A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading