Hello August..

RM> This is true.. Greenhouses also have a limited season in
RM> Canada. It allows people to start growing things 4 or 5
RM> weeks early..

AA>Check this out:

AA> The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food
  >365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live | Paperback

AA>Niki Jabbour | Joseph De Sciose

You always find a book for most things...   B)

If I had a greater interest in this I'd look into it better but the
bottom line is you can't grow plants even in a greehhouse unless it
is heated up to a point where the plants can survive. That's less
efficient to do on a small scale, especially when you don't have a
large house where you can play setup games to steal some of the heat
from the house to help with that.

RM> I learned in a hurry that as soon as they started to get
RM> close to ripe some wild animal or other would eat them
RM> before I got to them, so I'd need to build a greenhouse
RM> here to protect them too..

AA>I have seen frame structures with wiring akin to chicken wiring
  >but smaller, and built with removeable tops.

My sister uses something similar to that to keep rabbits out of her
garden, the wire buried well into the ground to prevent digging
under the fencing. Her house isn't quite as out in the woods as
I am here but it is still in an arae with lots of fields and lots
off woodlands still. She's just south of Peterborough on a property
that is 160 acres, much of it wooded, and she's constantly fighting
to keep the animals out of her garden there. The fences have to be
low enough to fight rabbits and ground hogs and high enough to deal
with deer.. I've always thought she spends a lot more time growing
her veggies than I'd want to spend but she seems to enjoy it.

..As in, she often has trouble getting up to enjoy her cottage
here because she's got to be at home to look after her gardens
at the hottest time of the year. She's even set up automated
watering systems but has found them not as reliable as she'd
hoped... and a week in summer without water can lose her a
couple of months of work getting things started growing early.

In recent years she's experimenting with growing some plants inside
holes in bales of straw. That was a new one to me..
She had some success but I think had a problem with some sort of
plant infection last year and had to burn a lot of material to clear
that out..

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