Peppers and Tomatoes in the High Tunnel

By

A New year means more crops in the high tunnel. Unlike last year, this year we did not plant any herbs. We focused on planting peppers and tomatoes. We have 5 rows of plants total with Cherry tomatoes in each corner of the high tunnel and 3 rows of jalapenos in the middle. We also have Poblano, Banana, and Lunch Box Mix peppers in pockets throughout the rows. Dave and Brian tilled the high tunnel in early April and about a month later in May, we got our plants. We decided to go with transplants since they have the highest chance of succes. We have had to put out serveral hay bales and have needed to weed several times but over the course of these several weeks the high tunnel has been slowly growing with our first harvest of peppers on July 7th. All of the peppers are at hip height and producing vegetables quite nicely. We should be getting even more produce soon. Here is a collection of photos to show off our progress.














Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

By
Image
 Today at the AAUFRC we had our first harvest of hops! Pherm Brewery asked for 1lb of fresh hops for their beer, a number which we met seven fold. We gave them 5.5lbs of the Cascade variety which is the leading industry standard variety, and we gave them 2lbs of the Comet variety. Our hops really amazed us with how much they produced in their first year, typically you would not see numbers like this until year two or three! While we were out with the hops we also fixed the post that had broken in our storm last Tuesday. We used wood glue and screws in some extra 2x4s to hold it all together.
Read more
By
Image
We planted the crops in our hightunnel for this year! We have Jalapenos, Poblanos, Habaneros, and Lunchbox Mix peppers. We also have different varieties of tomatoes, oregano, basil, dill, eggplant, and chamomile.
Read more
By
Image
We had a busy week here at the farm as we had a water pipe laid to connect to our field on Friday the 15th. We filled the hole in on Tuesday, fixing a leak that sprang. The vineyard and the hops yard also got hoed in preparation for spraying herbicides and fungicides today. On Wednesday we restrung the hops yard as much as we could with the rope we had on hand, more rope has been ordered to finish that job in the coming week.
Read more