Season Extension & Exciting News for Next Winter!

We have cold temperatures in the forecast, so it's time to break out the cold frames and cover the hoop houses!

Under Cover Fall/Winter Crops:

Beets
Carrots
Chives
Claytonia
Collard Greens
Dandelion
Egyptian Walking Onions
French Sorrel
Giant Red Mustard Greens
Kale
Lettuce
Mache
Parsley
Red Veined Sorrel
Rutabaga
Salad Burnet
Spinach

OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.

Featured Videos:

How I Make Our Hoop Houses:

How to Make a Hoop House for a Raised Bed:

[CaliforniaGardening]

Nice ideas on how to extend growing season using cold frames and hoop houses

[MIgardener]

I am so excited about next year! wow! fun! thanks for an awesome year of great quality videos. 

[RainbowGardens]

You have been granted permission! Haha funny! I can't wait to see the walk - in,
 Also, I love my temporary covers.  Last year, it enabled me to enjoy fresh kale for my southern meal of greens and peas, our traditional New Year meal in the south.

[LearnToGrow]

You're garden is looking great Patrick!  We had our first freeze yesterday and it got to 27 degrees!

[suburbanhomestead]

It's awesome that you are getting a greenhouse Patrick. :-) You deserve it.

[MatthewSaratoreGarden]

Awesome news, getting permission from the boss is a key for every gardener! Best of luck on the hoop house for next year.

[LolitasGarden]

Walk in hoophouse! Came back to glean details as the wife and I are building some cold frames this Sunday.

[PermacultureHomestead]

im enjoying a balmy 69 today in zone 8.   Glad to hear the wife is open to the greenhouse, I love mine, wife and greenhouse :)      love your work always an inspiration

[subedei]

Congrats on finally getting permission for the walk-in hoop house!!!   I know how it goes, brother.  It takes time to build a great garden...it takes even longer to get the wife to let you do it!!!   Have a great winter!

[FensterfarmGreenhouse]

I look forward to seeing your new hoop house Patrick. They are a lot of fun but like anything can be a lot of work!
Chuck

[naturallivingdesigns]

Your veggies sure do look healthy! Congratulation on the thumbs up for the walk in Hoop House!(-:

[JoeFeser]

It is very exiting that you have been blessed on a full blown hoop house. I can't wait to see it.

[Matt_j]

This my first year gardening and it's become my obsession. I just started reading Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman. I'm being restrained and will build a hoop house next year.

[erich.]

I'm sure you'll have a blast

[ghillzballer]

Yay! Congrats on the hoophouse. How exciting!

[ptrain]

I built a large walk in hoop house about 2 years ago.  My plan was to keep out bugs to grow pumpkins in, but the hoop house got too hot, even with the thinnest layer of agribon/remay.  This video link show you what the frame looked like.  Other videos from 2012 shows it with the agribon.  Each piece of the arch is 5 foot lengths of pvc.  Pittman's Pumpkin Patch 2012 Part 1

[datadev]

I look forward to seeing the new hoop house build.

[MrChip]

I'm sure that your hoophouse next year will give you plenty of extra garden enjoyment for the year! Just more opportunities for us all to see more great videos!

[ImASurvivorNThriver]

Nice...  Looking forward to the updates.  Thanks for sharing.

[rorybristol]

OneYardRevolution  Good timing with the big storm coming down.  Looking at 15-24" with over an inch per hour in Northwoods.   And I'm heading into it.   One of our local farms just put in his posts and is building his greenhouse.  Good luck, they're nice to have.