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Looks like everything is weathering well. Come on Spring.
Break out that pyroweeder on skis and melt your walkways
I know this is way besides the point, but where'd you get that jacket?
Wow – that is really hard to cope with – that much snow! I don't envy you at all. I know someone who moved from Canada to Australia because the winters just became too much. You must all be fantastic skiers!
Question…in urban farming how do you treat the water I’m sure it’s very high ph lots of chlorine
Stay warm!
With overwintered spinach, have the plants been cut back at this point and you'll be harvesting the regrowth come late winter? or will you still be cutting through January? I've had some spinach in low tunnels and with this past week's single digit lows (5deg F), highs below freezing and winds trashing my low tunnels overnight, the leaves of what I haven't harvested yet have gone totally limp.
Hey Curtis, I haven't lived in Kelowna since I was a kid but I don't remember much snow. Does it snow much there and does it stay around long?
running your snowblower down the sides of high tunnels would be worth the time. some sudden freezing rain could be a problem , same with snow on tops if a wet snow storm blows in could result in the snow load to be to much.
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All of your information, a lot of this stuff works for just home gardeners as well. Just have to scale the ideas down.
I use the floating row covers/agribond in my high tunnel over the crops. Stayed in good shape after temps as low as -10 degrees F.
Pretty impressive with being so darn cold…
Is it necessary to regularly maintain the snow off the high tunnels?
Very cool lighting effect happening inside those tunnels.
Did the harvesting of the salinova just happen to correspond with the arrival of cold weather, or did you have to plan the cutting for overwintering even though it may not have been tall enough for the market?
you should make snow men and sell them lol
Talk about COOL Vids! lol…forgive the pun, but ya all are really snowed in! Keep being IRIE Curtis! 🙂
As somebody who's never lived in a place with snow (40yo, seen snow 4 times in my life) this is just fascinating.
Will not be too dark under all tht snow in the low tunnels? Its nice to see them standing though, seeing them piled up gives me alot of confidence in the new strapped ridge ‘pole’ you used.
Ha ha. Thats a lot of snow. I'm currently experimenting with low tunnels – well more like polythene over PVC hoops. I'm having big problems with wind and even with sand bags its hard to secure the plastic. I'd be interested in seeing more detail about how you secure yours. I have watched the videos on installing them but not sure how your secure the string over the tunnels and to what extent you weigh down the edges. It seems like you don't have big wind problems in Kelowna? Also, when you plan your crop plantings for the year does it matter much that you might have to delay by a few weeks if the spring was very cold or wet?
One of my concerns as a new urban farmer is the next Little Ice Age. Nothing to do with global warming. This is well documented in great books such as The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fisher. The Little Ice Age has occurred nine times in human history and I guess it is of particular concern for me, because I live in a part of the world where it should not have been -6 to -8 Celsius so early in the winter, never-mind that in Tallahassee, Florida its a top of 5 Celsius. This has disastrous effects on farmers, food, populations and politics. Just wondering what your thoughts are on this, Curtis.I know you don't want to talk politics because of YouTube's flaky behavior with great content such as yours, but this is a relevant topic as fellow farmers, with disastrous effects if we are on the wrong side of this argument.
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Hey Curtis, just wondering if you might be willing to share where you get your compost from in Kelowna? I'm not having much luck at finding good compost in the Kelowna area.
Steep Wall Hoop Houses to Cope with Heavy Snow Loads
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Per Eliot Coleman, row cover material would add a lot to the protection. Getting the snow off increases heat gain on sunny days.
I guess this is one advantage to a design with a peak on top. For example http://solaroof.org
Are you ever going to grow cannabis.? Isnt it legal in Canada?
You should know that living in Canada, the snow does not melt in late February, it heads into March and parts of April at times.
There's nothing wrong with sticking a cheap used small woodstove inside and running a small fire to melt the snow and increase crop growth. I Do it here in Maine and let the supplemental heat escape into my garage to heat it for free as well. As for hitting the poly film with anything during severe cold isn't advisable, the poly can get brittle and will tear very easily even if it's new and strong. Use the heat method and don't touch the poly if you can help it. That is the voice of a costly experience.