Category Archives: High Tunnels

Planting tomatoes in the high tunnel today. Another season has begun!

This is what our tomato field looked like hours before the first freeze. … And here is what it looked like the next morning.  Good thing we picked all the tomatoes! And here is what the high tunnel looked like after it got down to 28 degrees – warm and balmy inside!  Amazing! Looks likeContinue reading “First Freeze”

One tiny tomato blossom (not even open yet)!  Many more to come … hopefully SOON!

We have already had our first tomato crisis of the year.  A few days after planting our high tunnel tomatoes, nearly two-thirds of them were dead.  I came to discover that roly poly’s … that’s right, those cute little bugs your kids love to play with … were to blame. With nothing else around theContinue reading “Tomato triage”

We had planned to plant our high tunnel tomatoes this past weekend, but with the forecast for Sunday night a measly 23 degrees, we decided it was too risky.  (And it did indeed get down to 23 last night.) So tonight was the night.  We got three of the four rows planted …. Whew!  ThatContinue reading “Planting Time”