Winter preparations in Hoop House, Chicken Coop and Gardens
It’s time to get some chores done before winter arrives. Making the Chicken Coop yard a little more comfortable for the chickens this winter, building more r…
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I think I got a bit carried away with the coop LOL. This video was last winter, I didn’t put the plastic back this year.
Thank you the poor little guys are cold this morning we had minus 17C last night.
I like the smart pots, didn’t have great luck with potatoes in them but I don’t think that was the pot’s fault. The plants grew beautifully and bloomed just not many potatoes under them. Getting colder here every night now we will have frost again in a day or two.
Busy, busy, Dale. Lots of chores to do getting set for winter. Probably a lot more for you than for me. How did you like using the smart pots this year? Your hoop house is just amazing. I’ll definitely ponder if and where I might fit one in.
Regards, Gary
Thanks Eric.
Great video Dale, keep going! Eric
I should have told you that it doesn’t splinter off when it’s new, as least as far as I know.
When they get a year or two on them and from being left in the sun, then they begin to fragment and will
embed these microfilaments into the bare skin. Painful!!
Thank you
very nice video!
Thanks. Anything outside my hoop house was killed a few weeks ago when we had our only heavy frost, so far. The forecast for the next 5 days has it getting cooler each day but still nighttime temps are supposed to be above freezing. So it looks like the hoop house will survive for a while yet. Thanks for the fibreglass warning, I will put it inside.
The enclosed areas look good, the frost has been trampling my tomato plants. Oh, keep fiberglass out of the sun, it takes a couple years to deteriorate, but once it does, fixing it takes some doing!
No that wouldn’t be possible at least not in our winter, it would cost a fortune.
Thanks for the heads-up. I didn’t use gloves and had no problem, but it’s good to know.
Be sure to use leather gloves with a fiberglas handle.
My daughter used one today and she has suffered all day with small microscopic filaments that broke off into her palm. Lesson learned…..
Dale, do you heat the hoop house?
Can I bring the hens? Do you follow workwithnature, Irish I think, I just made a garden bed in the style that he demoed in his latest video, I have a Video Response coming out later today or tomorrow.
I love work… I could watch it all day. Now that everything is done you’ll be bored out of your mind so you might as well fly over here to help me.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
I guess I should have said I also have Sprouts in the garden. lol.
I know what you mean I missed my Chickens for almost 20 years and I’m so glad I build a new coop and got a small flock of day old chicks this spring. I spend an hour or two every afternoon sitting in the back yard reading while they free range around me. That reminds me I’ve got to pick my sprouts and get them in the freezer.
Boy do I miss my chickens! Very nice! I want to try brussels sprouts next year. I have a great recipe for them.