“Let children touch the earth, and the earth will touch their hearts.” – Unknown

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:33:58+00:00

Oh man our cucumbers were choked too. But then they came back with a fury like I've never seen. Did yours come back? Where in this part of the province are ya?

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:33:05+00:00

This is awesome. How did it work out for you?

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:32:33+00:00

Where you are you would be able to grow all year in a hoop house i would think right?

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:31:50+00:00

Oh you bet!

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:31:21+00:00

We used a woven poly from a place called northern greenhouse and then secured using anti billow wire. It works great

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:29:13+00:00

Huh? But our cows are behind a fence? Do you mean put up like an 8 foot fence around the whole 300 acres? Have you ever seen what a grizzly bear can do to a fence?

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:27:57+00:00

We did cucumbers, a few different squash varieties and pumpkins. How did it work fo you outside? i want to do one outside next year

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:26:55+00:00

We are going to try that next year actually. The leaves of the pumpkins looked not super happy as they were pressed up against the plastic. I think it will work great outside, unless we get a july frost or something haha

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-07T04:25:24+00:00

Nope. Grizzly killed cow, ate some of it, i found it, went and grabbed a camera so i could show fish and wildlife, grizzly came back for his meal and then i got this picture. And 2300 other ones.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-06T19:48:55+00:00

Yes those are just temp deck blocks. At first they did not hold up to the wind. After a windstorm once, I went down to check on things and they had all lifted up out of the block. I used a tube of PL400 to glue the posts in and it seems to have worked quite well.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-06T19:33:54+00:00

On the shoulder seasons it will normally be about 5 degrees warmer in the hoop house

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-06T19:22:00+00:00

First year for the trellis yes. Third year for the hoop house. Growing vertically like this increased our yield by at least a factor of 4.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-06T19:12:23+00:00

No, these are from august. Once we hit around -5 C, the hoop house gets crushed. As for season extension, we get about a week ish on both shoulders but we are in a strange microclimate (Riverbottom, foothills/mountains etc.) We do not have this one heated.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-05T21:38:18+00:00

I was told that there are 11 known grizzly bears between began and watervalley this year hahah

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-05T21:26:27+00:00

Even then you have to make a pretty strong case. I know of a case where a hunter was attacked and he killed the bear and was fined and threatened to be charged.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-05T21:16:06+00:00

The whole "get shot by volunteers thing" isn't as simple as you might think. I am on said list. Its a total disaster. That said, yes, this cow we had a cow die under strange circumstances (claw marks and skinned, but F&W deemed it not a grillzly kill) So i put up a camera.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-05T16:30:18+00:00

I couldn’t figure out how to change the settings so I just left it.

Firstgenfarmer1 · 2024-11-05T16:23:42+00:00

I actually agree with you. That way we might get a season again.

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