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High Tunnel Gardening
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High Tunnel Gardening
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My husband put up a hoop house last fall and I used it for plant starts and they were the best plant starts that I’d ever produced. They weren’t leggy and anemic looking and looked like they came out of a professional greenhouse. I also grew tomatoes in large tubs and they grew prolific but then I got a spider mite infestation and tried everything to get rid of them but to no avail and I had to get rid of my tomatoes (I even tried ladybug release but that didn’t help at all). I’m getting my HH ready to plant out (in ground) tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and maybe some beans for the winter.
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lololol I’m glad I saw this comment.
I’ve done a lot of experimenting on spider mites with indoor gardening with various forms of lighting.
HPS, MH, Mercury vapor, homemade LEDs, fluorescents etc etc
Spider mites like to hide from the light on the bottom of the leaves. I used to take a flat LED panel and put them under the plants near the trunk of the plant. It confuses the spider mites and they don’t know where to hide. LEDs are required because all other light sources are too hot and intense to pound the bottom of leaves.
The bugs are tiny and light colored. I think the eggs are also white and they lay on the bottom of leaves. The light translucent colors tells me these bugs are UV sensitive. Confuse the bugs so the sun cooks them for you.
This at least makes it easier to apply some sort of poison or deterrent.
Unfortunately, this does not fix the issue with spider mites spending time in the top layer of the soil.
Maybe water with DE in a solution, pretty sure mites wont like that at all.
Hope this helps or springs up new ideas.
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Have you successfully grown in the winter? What zone are you in?
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I grew Miyashige Daikon radishes thru the winter. They survived 15 F and 6 inches snow.I border Canada
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Wow good work, let us hope it will stand for many More years.
Still got so mutch garden work to do, do not know how just keep on going.
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The Bresse and Barbezieux chicks more young chickens but ok you will get the picture, are making there round around the tunnel. In there chicken tractor that is, after they are moved seeding gras and so.
O boy do they love there greens, if they are let loose they run around the fruit trees. Our sun catches they to put them in there coop.
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