How to Grow Winter Hoop House Crops

Reader Contribution by Pam Dawling
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Twin Oaks Community

Our daily hoop house tasks allow for harvesting abundant, healthy winter hoop house crops while avoiding hazardous nitrate accumulation in greens.

We are amazed at how incredibly productive our hoop house is, infinitely better than a cold frame! The rate of growth of cold-weather crops is much faster inside; the crop quality, especially leafy greens, is superb. Plants can tolerate lower temperatures than outdoors, as they have the pleasant daytime conditions in which to recover. Salad greens in a hoop house can survive nights with outdoor lows of 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 degrees Celsius). Winter gardening in a hoop house is much more pleasant than dealing with frozen row covers and hoops outdoors.

What to Grow In a Hoop House

We grow mainly:

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