Comments on: My Cool New Seedling Protector http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/18/my-cool-new-seedling-protector/ An urban insurgent's guide to real food for life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:22:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed Bruske http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/18/my-cool-new-seedling-protector/comment-page-1/#comment-3173 Ed Bruske Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:36:34 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2313#comment-3173 El, you are always two steps ahead of me. Last year I tried a plastic tunnel design advocated by Eliot Coleman where the plastic edges barely came to ground level (to let in air) and the plastic was held in place by a looping string. We got a big wind that blew it apart. The only thing that survived was the spinach. This winter I'll probably return to our old method, which was to hold the plastic down with bricks. But I should add that our farmer friend Brett Grohsgal, who sells his winter-hardy seeds through Fedco and Southern Exposure Seed exchange, strongly advocates planting certain arugula, collards, kale and other greens without any tunnel at all. Of course besides his open fields of greens, he also has greenhouses to fall back on. El, you are always two steps ahead of me. Last year I tried a plastic tunnel design advocated by Eliot Coleman where the plastic edges barely came to ground level (to let in air) and the plastic was held in place by a looping string. We got a big wind that blew it apart. The only thing that survived was the spinach. This winter I’ll probably return to our old method, which was to hold the plastic down with bricks. But I should add that our farmer friend Brett Grohsgal, who sells his winter-hardy seeds through Fedco and Southern Exposure Seed exchange, strongly advocates planting certain arugula, collards, kale and other greens without any tunnel at all. Of course besides his open fields of greens, he also has greenhouses to fall back on.

]]> By: fastweedpuller http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/18/my-cool-new-seedling-protector/comment-page-1/#comment-3172 fastweedpuller Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:29:58 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2313#comment-3172 Great! Now when it gets cold you can use those hoops to cover a garden bed, change to plastic, bury the plastic edges in the ground, put the rowcover on top of your plants and voila, mini-greenhouse. (didn't you try that already, though? What happened, was it wind?) Great!

Now when it gets cold you can use those hoops to cover a garden bed, change to plastic, bury the plastic edges in the ground, put the rowcover on top of your plants and voila, mini-greenhouse.

(didn’t you try that already, though? What happened, was it wind?)

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