GROW GREENS ALL WINTER! "tunnel gardening"

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This is the "covered" raised garden beds (sq. ft. gardens). This was filmed in December 2008, outside temps. averaging around 40F. during the day. We've been eating the greens all winter! Definitely an inexpensive way to eat salad greens all winter! http://www.rawutah.com/

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Where are you located? the state? Your garden looks good. What level of mylar plastic is that? It keeps in enough moisture to potect it from the cold? I may have to cover in Jan or Feb or a couple of weeks and wondered.

Does that plastic actually let enough light in to let them grow bigger? Very nice btw.

Due to the weather extremes we were considering a hydroponic inside grow with solar powered water pump.

Are you using pine needles for mulch? How did that work out for you? I have so much of that lying around, but dare not use it for fear it might make the soil too acidic...

I like it thanks

@MyLittleGreenThumb Here in Norh Missouri I will get Kale all Winter !! it hit 9 deg last week too. Get you some Kale, Red Winter or Red Russian will take it to 10 Below Zero F. No Cover, No Tunnel, !!! Oh, it also taste better after 20 deg hits it. If you don't like it from the store or from the summer garden, wait til it gets cold.

@joe18370 Yes... Pine needles will make the soil acidic.. So you need to know what plants want and like the acidic soil... and if other plants don't like it then on them you will need to use some other compost or cover.. Hey, I need some pine needles... how close are you to North East Missouri ???

I'm impressed by your winter garden. I have subscribed to see more. I just started my first winter garden. I do have a simple video of mine... not as cool as yours :)

This is awesome! I really want to try it.

the pine needles will make soil acidic ,is this true and why do you use the pine needle thanks ,i have a ton of pine needles in my yard

fantastic.......thanks for the great ideas and info......best wishes to you and yours.

@rawutah lolz... man... :) what about the fact that the rocks store heat durring the day and that when the temperature drops rapidly at night the rocks slowly dissapitate the stored heat and therefore the plants do not suffer temperature shocks ;) that is also an 'ancient' secret and people use pits filled with rocks to store daylight-heat for use in the night.

That is amazing! How late into winter do you have veggies?

@LER77 Hope you have fun/are having fun with this method!! cheers!

@rawutah the key, is really doing cold hardy crops through the cold months. For sure, check out the book "Four Season Harvest" by Eliot Coleman. It's such a great read!!

For those that read these comments..and like learning from them, and AREN'T lost by the word, MAGNETISM, rather, would like to learn more about its presence in stones, sediment and growing mediums around the world. Check out the book, "PARAMAGNETISM" by Philip S. Callahan. Amazing INFO!! The awareness that cultures knew of this growth potentiating force in geologic sources..is VERY ILLUMINATING. It's been knows and applied by cultures around the world, for eons of time!! Just forgotten.

@jude1c9v I have...not to grow them all season though. Just to get a jump on the early spring season. After doing it though, I decided to focus on other crops under the tunnels. The potatoes take off, once conditions are good enough, outside the tunnels.

@jude1c9v nope, no artificial heat.

had me until he got to magnetism.

@dylan14570 Thank YOU!!!! Very appreciated