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First tomato and cucumber of the season already harvested! The one stupice (stoo-pe-che) that set early was picked on May 18, along with the first Persian cucumber. Both delicious! I’m still battling tomato leaf curl, but as seen in the video, copper and Serenade seem to be keeping it in check on most of the [...]

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April 24, 2010 hoop house update. The tomatoes are doing great, though some leaf curl. Sprayed with copper solution. Cucumbers planted about a week ago. Peppers just planted. All is looking good. Click on the image below to go to the You Tube video made April 24. Below the image is an embedded video that [...]

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Last year, I built a hoop house to allow me to grow hot weather vegetables in cool, foggy Mendocino, California. It was wonderfully successful. I wrote about and showed some pictures of the construction in a post in May 2009, but there were some useful construction details that I wasn’t able to convey. I’ve made [...]

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My  hoop house survived the winter storms and spring winds with no damage!  This year I was able to get my tomatoes in by mid-march. Last year, because I started building the hoop house in May, the tomatoes didn’t get planted until mid-May; so I have a two-month head start on last year’s very successful [...]

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September 11 was notable to me because it was 4 months since I first planted in my hoop house. Below is a link to the fourth monthly update since the planting – and what a four months it has been!  For the first time in my life, I am inundated with ripe tomatoes and peppers [...]

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This is the third monthly update on my hoop house in Mendocino, California, where cool, foggy summers make it impossible to grow hot weather vegetables outside. The hoop house continues to defeat all attempts of fog, coolness, and overcast days to do in my crops. All vegetables are thriving. Cucumbers aplenty, tomatoes and peppers ripening. [...]

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Last month I wrote about my latest joy, my new hoop house. Today is one month from when I first planted vegetables in the hoop house. To celebrate, I took a short video that tells it better than words. Here’s what it looked like a month ago: Here’s what it looks like today! Click on [...]

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It seems that I’ve always lived where it has been marginal, at best, to grow hot weather vegetables –Santa Monica, Northern Vermont, Mendocino. Finally, this year, I took action by building a hoop house. I found a set of plans on the internet for a low-cost (in keeping with the fall in my wealth last [...]

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