I have Eliot Coleman's "The Winter Harvest Handbook". We have built a hoop house. Basically we built it around the raised beds and we are still harvesting, although we are getting ready to start planting again soon.
how long have you had it pacamom? I am still harvesting green beans, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, radicchio, cilantro, carrots from the greenhouse and coldframes, but we were pretty lucky with the weather this September. Are you heating yours? I am curious what a hoophouse looks like, could you post pics?
cucumbers, beans, onions, snap peas, dill, chives, rosemary, basil, and a thousand million tomatoes are still going strong.
The hoop house was started about a month ago, and still needs a more permanent type door. We may heat it with a couple lights, it depends. But will not be heated with anything else.
The green house is heated, but that has houseplants in in. The roof of the greenhouse is getting a layer of polycarbonate something or other to help with insulating and too much sun.
I have pictures somewhere. I posted them once - on the day that 285bound crashed and burned, so I need to repost.
oh yeah, I still have cucumber and basil too, the rosemary is a little tree and still on the porch. My onions never made it and most of my tomatoes are still green I hope they'll ripen before it gets cold. What elevation are you at?
RY - 8400'. All my tomato plants are cold set varieties - siberian, minskii, manitoba, and others. I can't remember what kind the cherry tomato plants are. We are picking about 10 cherry tomatoes and 5 regular tomatoes a day.
Here are some pictures
before the plastic was put on
An old picture of the inside. Now there is a double layer of plastic, and a door is being framed in. The night it frosted outside we layered plastic directly on the plants
This is the front garden where the cosmos have just gone nuts -
