Hoop House

Today we finished getting our hoop house ready for the tomato plants that will be coming next week. We have them all started at AVI, our "home base" for starters. Yesterday we were able to get all of our lines hooked to the rafters, today we filled in the space with new compost, measured out our rows, dug them all out and got the main irrigation lines installed. This is the first time that I have ever grown tomato's with this method, using lines to guide the plants up, the vines will grow all the way up to the ceiling and then back down when done correctly. Main thing is to keep all new runners or "suckers" pruned down so that all the energy of the plant goes into the one vine that will be clipped to the string as it grows.