The Year-Round Hoophouse

Name: The Year-Round Hoophouse
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780865718630
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Polytunnels for All Seasons and All Climates

By Pam Dawling

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The Year-Round Hoophouse by Pam Dawling is a practical guide for gardeners looking to optimise their hoophouse for year-round cultivation. It offers insights on managing the unique challenges of each season and provides techniques for improving plant growth and productivity, ensuring a sustainable food supply regardless of the weather. Whether for personal use or small-scale farming, it's a valuable resource for achieving consistent yields.
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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about sustainable farming and wish to learn how to extend your growing season using hoophouses efficiently. It offers practical tips, in-depth techniques, and insightful advice for maintaining productive gardens in various climates, making it ideal for both hobbyists and professional gardeners keen on maximizing their yields.

The Year-Round Hoophouse

Growing in hoophouses reduces the impact of increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends growing seasons, and strengthens regional food supply. The Year-Round Hoophouse teaches how to site, design, and build a hoophouse and successfully grow abundant produce all year in a range of climates.

Design and build a hoophouse or polytunnel, and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate

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Design and build a hoophouse or polytunnel, and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate

The Year-Round Hoophouse is the comprehensive guide to designing and building a hoophouse and making a success of growing abundant, delicious fresh produce all year, whatever your climate and land size. Chapters include:

Hoophouse siting, size, style, frame construction, and tools
Bed layout, soil, crop rotations, and extensive coverage of various crops for all seasons
Organic solutions to pests and diseases
Disaster preparation
Tested resources for each chapter

The Year-Round Hoophouse is ideal for farmers who wish to move into protected growing, as well as beginning farmers in rural and urban spaces. It is an essential reference resource for professors and students of courses in sustainable agriculture, as well as interns and apprentices learning on the job.

Growing in hoophouses, also known as high tunnels or polytunnels, reduces the impact of an increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends the growing season, keeps leafy greens alive through the winter, and enables growers to supply more regional food needs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865718630

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Illustration: 8 Illustrations, color; 150 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly, Adult education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 771g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Pam Dawling Science & Nature

About the Author

Pam Dawling has been farming and providing training in sustainable vegetable production in a large variety of climates for over 40 years, 14 of which have been hoophouse growing. Pam's first book is the best-selling Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres. Pam is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine, has written articles and information sheets for various biological farming publications, and is a popular speaker on growing vegetables at sustainable agriculture conferences and events each year. She blogs weekly at sustainablemarketfarming.com and monthly on the Mother Earth News Organic Gardening Blog. Pam does consultancy work for new and beginning farmers, and for 25 years was the manager of Twin Oaks community farm in Virginia, which feeds the 100 community members year-round. She lives and grows at Twin Oaks in Louisa, Virginia.