FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...

With some key considerations on hoop house plans, siting and building a hoop house can provide your crops with sturdy protection and a longer growing season. Hoop houses (also known as “high tunnels”) ...

When living in a temperate climate, some gardeners use their creativity in order to extend the growing season as much as possible. I am one of those gardeners. Over the years, I’ve been experimenting ...

Hoop houses, those large temporary membrane structures, remain banned in Elmhurst residential areas, although home gardeners looking to extend the growing season may use smaller plastic-covered low ...

Peppermint plants growing in concrete blocks... Tomatoes that produce bluish fruit... Strawberries trailing out of a laundry basket... Those are a few of the oddities you'll find in Hershey Gardens' ...

Previously, we wrote in general terms about ways to extend the growing season in winter with a hoop house. But depending on the cover you use for your hoop house; they are also valuable tools for ...

Nearly two dozen supporters of an Elmhurst family’s long-running effort to get city permission to extend their backyard gardening season with a plastic-covered temporary greenhouse demanded Monday ...

This job is best done in mild sunny weather, when the plastic will be dry and can stretch some but not too much. Arrange for a windless day to spread plastic – that is, less than 5mph winds, tops! If ...

More than 30 volunteers and University of Nevada, Reno staff and students spent a sunny, yet windy, winter day last week building six hoop houses that will be used to grow vegetables year-round to ...