Anybody out there ever done these tunnels that I see in the North.

I'd like to hear from "YOU"..

About this bias about the bias between north and south, what a bunch of" BULLSHIT" !

Can't ya see that we all in this together.

Rick ( formally "Okie Dawn")Please respond with you're feelings.

Okie HU (if that's ok)Just to clarify , Okie Dawn died back in 2020. She was a Queen in the gardening world.

Rick (Respond to me if you want to.).

What do you have growing under those hoops? I would like to grow things during the winter too (here in Va) but during freezing nights all except the most hardy of plants would be lost without a heating source.

The 3 tunnels to the left are brassicas ; brocolli ,cabbage and cauliflower. The one on the far right .is a mixture of greens : collards , kale , mustard , spinach , mache , chard. Turnips , green onions,

and green peas(shelling). All cool season stuff. I don't use a heating source , maybe jugs and bottles of water inside the tunnels to absorb and release heat.

I've had mixed success with these tunnels. The problem for me is that the temps down here roller coaster up and down. It can get 70* in Dec while I got the tunnels sealed up and then have to vent. I use row cover , something like Agribon-30 ,not plastic (maybe use a 2nd layer of plastic for single digit days if I can get to it.). It's a lot of work to put these tunnels up and anchored down to keep the winds from taking them down.

Rick

Rick ( Okie HU)

That's quite a set-up! I can grow all of those veggies up until right about now (planted in late Aug) but my collards and carrots can last a bit last longer into Jan if the temps don't dip into the teens for 3 nights in a row. After that happens the collards and carrot tops whither away but the carrot roots are good to pick until the ground get solid. I do plant stagggered spinach seed in the fall (planted the last row today) to overwinter in the garden (it's tough). By late Feb I'll clean up the young spinach rows (thin plants, remove old leaves, weed, fert, mulch) and it's pickable by mid March and produces a long time before it bolts by early June.

Thank "YOU "for the responsed!!

My collards tend to make it pretty well, but not much else.

i had a lot of problems getting all this planted in for the fall due to the DROUGHT.

HOPE to hear from any body else.

I 've exprimented with these tunnels for several years now.

I do something similar, now in a much smaller garden than I've had until I moved. I grow only winter lettuces under a small tent, first with row covers, then with plastic. And I'm usually able to keep savoy cabbages under just double row cover into February. Until climate change changed everything, we were a zone 5A, now usually nearly zone 7.

But the coming deep cold this Christmas weekend will really test my overwintering abilities. I tucked a multilayered row cover over the lettuces (they're planted tightly in an area roughly 4x4, and put down a thick layer of hay over that. Then the plastic over the hoops to keep today's rain out. For the cabbages I stuffed hay around them and over top, covered with a double row cover and placed tarps over that to keep the hay dry.

Temps going to zero or around that for several nights. I know that the savoys have survived about 7 or 8 degrees with just double row cover, but we'll see how they come through this cold. Too bad we won't have snow since that's such a good insulator.