If many of your brugs are already 8 feet tall, do not make your hoop house 8 feet tall! They will outgrow it immediately!
things I learned with my first hoop house
If you want a nice straight alley tree, stake it early and stake it all the way up!
never think coleus will thrive in a wet hoop house.............
and never ever use snail bait in your hoop house........ it becomes a fungus pile immediately!
when all else fills up.......... use your pots to hold more pots
lol, thanks for the info. knocking on wood, i have brugs looking gorgeous and developing blooms under my live oak branches, a seedling getting ready to bloom for the first time. DH keeps telling me he wants to build me a greenhouse.... we'll see... i think i'd rather have a big cold frame.
and lastly................ if you want to look good for New Year's dinner......... get better genes and do not hang out in a dripping wet hoop house all day moving things around......... it is like a rain forest!
LOL - well I guess you're right on all counts. Especially the 8 ft plants in the 8 foot GH. When is the rain going to stop for you Kell? I'm about ready to break out hip waders and an ark.
Really Liz.......... but today is gorgeous.......... no doubt it will start to rain again in the morning. I am so happy brugs seem to like it in high humidity and do not rot! The brugs in the hoop house are much happier than the brugs in my house. I am going to move them all out and put them on top of the big pots. I was rereading my list here......... LOL........... a duh list for sure. But some of us learn by doing not thinking........LOL
Kell, I have learned a few of your lessons already . . the hard way!! LOL
Kell, other than the coleus, everything looks great. Just wondering what you would have done with all of the plants if Tom hadn't built you the hoop house?
Well, actually Brugie, I have not needed it yet. There has been no frost! However it has protected them from all the rain and wind. I even have petunias still blooming here. My roses have not gone dormant and if I had been fertilizing I would still have lots of blooms I bet. All my obsessing and no freeze yet........ not to say we still won't get a big one though.
I agree.........the time will probably come that your plants are saved because of having them housed. Hope your weather starts to dry out a bit. Wish we had some of the moisture here. Very dry and warm for us at this time of the year.
yesterday as I walked in yard it actually made a squishing sound............... so satuated!