Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

As one who literally grew up in greenhouses (my dad had a commercial
chrysanthemum nursery) near San Jose, CA, you pay dearly for climate
control. Most likely you will have to provide at least a lot of ventilation
to prevent overheating. My dad had whole one end of the greenhouse with
water dripping through cocomats and the other industrial ventilating fans to
suck the air through the greenhouse to create a swamp cooling affect. Think
capital equipment and energy costs. Being that chrysanthemums are daylight
hour sensitive in their blooming cycles, the last hour of each day during
the summers was to pull blackcloth to cover structures over the beds, first
hour of the working day was to reverse that. I think you are dealing with
extreme heat and humidity in Ohio? Then the swamp coolers probably wouldn't
even work in your climate - it's evaporative cooling and if you have high
humidity it won't be that effective.

If you are thinking hoop houses, what you could probably do instead of
plastic is to put up shade cloth over your hoops. However, heat loving
plants would probably do a lot better without shadecloth.

Plastic hoop houses would probably just get damaged in hailstorms and would
retain too much heat during the summer and could potentially kill your
plants. In fact, plastic on wet ground is used to solarize the ground to
kill weed seeds during hot months, so imagine what it would do for your
vegetable crops.

K.

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Scott <sjw4jc@embarqmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm very new to gardening and am wondering about what benefits there may be
> in having a greenhouse (Central Ohio) during the summer months. I pretty
> much understand how they are used to extend the seasons in the early spring
> and late fall but are they helpful in the hot summer for anything?
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> I would think that portable hoop houses would be great for protecting
> against excessive sun and even hail storms. I've seen short ones that should
> be portable enough to grab when storms are coming and set them up in a
> hurry.
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> Does anyone have any experience with these?
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> BTW, I'm intrigued with the Mittleider Method but I'm still in the learning
> stage. My wife does most of the gardening so I'm more of a back seat driver.
> As I feel more comfortable and have more time I hope to become more
> involved.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Scott
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