If I had a bigger yard, a hoop house would be on my to-do list. It’s basically an enclosed plastic structure that extends the season by providing a little more heat than we have in the Northwest. It’s ...

FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...

It is too early to sow spring transplants even with our recent unseasonably warm day temperatures, but it is an ideal time to grow gardens under the plastic of a hoop house. Raising crops in hoop ...

When living in a temperate climate, some gardeners use their creativity in order to extend the growing season as much as possible. I am one of those gardeners. Over the years, I’ve been experimenting ...

Greenhouses aren’t the only great cover-ups for gardeners determined to extend their growing seasons. High tunnels, low tunnels and caterpillar tunnels work well, too. Also known as hoop houses or row ...

FLINT, Mich. – On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...

I'm excited. I want to get going on my spring garden now. I attended a hoop house workshop put on by Western Nevada College's Specialty Crop Institute in Fallon last Saturday. Now I want to build a ...

This comes from the Jefferson County Agricultural Economic Development office: Windstorm damage to a season-extending hoop house at Wellesley Island's Cross Island Farms on January 19-20 was extensive ...

Have you ever gone out to your veggie garden with high hopes of picking the first batch of fresh produce only to find bunnies nibbling, beetles chomping away, or other charming creatures beating you ...

So you don’t have a greenhouse or cold frame or PVC hoop house (though really, if you haven’t watched the DPTV video of Betty Cahill’s easy, inexpensive hoop system, you should). The next best thing ...

FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...