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Hoophouse Update: New crops coming on strong

Hoophouse Update: New crops coming on strong

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on October 31, 2010

As the cold weather closes in, the winter produces gets a final dose of fish emulsion fertilizer.

Posted in News | Tagged beets, cold crops, floating row covers, greenhouse, hoophouse, kale, lettuce mix, passive solar | Leave a response

Hoophouse Update: Planting greens for winter harvest

Hoophouse Update: Planting greens for winter harvest

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on September 25, 2010

If all goes well, I will be harvesting lettuce, spinach and other cold crops all winter long.

Posted in Food, Gardening | Tagged cold crops, greens, gruit production, high tunnels, hoophouse, lettuce, Michigan, passive solar, spinach, winter harvest | Leave a response

Hoophouse Update: It’s a jungle in there

Hoophouse Update: It’s a jungle in there

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on July 10, 2010

Harvest time turns me into a contestant from “Chopped” – what can I make with potatoes, garlic, turnip, beets, cucumbers and green onions?

Posted in Food, Gardening, News, Recipes | Tagged basket, beets, chopped, cucumber, harvest, hoophouse, roasted garlic recipe, roasted potatoes recipe, scallion, secret ingredients, spicy raita recipe, turnip, update | Leave a response

Hoophouse Update: Filled to the brim – finally

Hoophouse Update: Filled to the brim – finally

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on May 18, 2010

Deciding when it is safe to transplant the warm-weather seedlings is nerve-wracking when the weather reports keep threatening frost.

Posted in Food, Gardening, News | Tagged greenhouse, hoophouse, passive solar, seedlings, transplants, vegetables | Leave a response

Our 26 by 36 passive solar greenhouse called a hoophouse

Hoophouse Gardening: Getting a big jump on spring

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on March 14, 2010

Our passive solar greenhouse (called a hoophouse) allows us to begin planting and harvesting veggies weeks earlier than ever before.

Posted in Food, News | Tagged extension, garden, gardening, greenhouse, growing season, hoophouse, irrigation, passive solar, starting seedlings, vegetables | 1 Response

I let the vegetables cool off until they were almost lukewarm

Roasted vegetable salad with poppy seed dressing

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on November 27, 2009

A hearty salad for crisp falls days – even better if you grow your own greens.

Posted in Food, News | Tagged greens, hoophouse, poppy seed dressing, recipe, roasted vegetable salad, roasted vegetables, salad | Leave a response

Time to plant our hoophouse for winter

Time to plant our hoophouse for winter

By Bonnie Bucqueroux on September 29, 2009

Bonnie Bucqueroux and her husband Drew Howard have installed a 26 by 36 foot hoophouse they hope will provide them fresh vegetables all winter long. These passive solar greenhouses are increasingly popular with Michigan fruit and vegetable growers, but Bucqueroux and Howard are part of a growing number of home gardeners installing hoophouses as a way to grow more of their own food.

Posted in Food, News | Tagged Adam Montri, Eliot Coleman, fall planting, greens, hoophouse, mache, Michigan State University, onions, passive solar, Student Organic Farm, turnips, winter production | Leave a response

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