Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

prepare for wind. green house fabricators run the supports every 6'. or you can op for 5' or 4' depending on your wind load situation.  in other words they may shorten the span between the supports. Or you could take it up a notch by using 6" X 6" post and maybe going a little deeper in the ground for more support.if you got two rows of tee post side by side you could just use one longer cross bar accross the two uprights. teaming the neighbors up adds strength. I have run rope out at an angle to stakes temporaly for help also. Prepare for the worst and pray for the best! 

Bruce Magnuson
16650 hwy 243
Banning Ca. 92220
951 922 3643
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--- On Thu, 2/17/11, Mona Weathers <monawea@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mona Weathers <monawea@gmail.com>
Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: Does the Mittleider Method work in high wind areas?
To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 8:29 AM

 

Thanks everyone for responding.

Just wanted to be sure that the plants will do well on the t-frame in wind. We don't have constant wind but it can blow very hard at times. I already figured that the plastic cover would not work here so that's no surprise. I will probably use the corn stalk idea to catch some of the wind.

Thanks again!

Mona
--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, ttoproofing@... wrote:
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> I have never had problems with the t-frames its self, in fact I have loved having the t-frames, but when I have put plastic up to make a green house I had problems with the wind.
> Craig
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> From: "monawea" <monawea@...>
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> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:50:25
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> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Does the Mittleider Method work in high wind areas?
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> I live in a mountain community, zone 7-9. We get some very high winds here and I worried about the t-fame method. The summers don't usually have as high winds as winter but they can get up there.
> The winds usually blow from west to east or visa versa.
> Has anyone experienced using the Mittleider Method in high wind areas?
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> Thank you!
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