Urge for Growing

So we are trying to keep some of our tomatoes alive in our hoop house, but if that doesn’t work we have a backup plan.  We took some cuttings of two of our heirloom tomato plants (one grape, and another mid-sized tomato), and we are going to keep them in the house and replant them in the spring.  

 

We are also growing some tomatoes we got down in Texas that were purple with green stripes.  They look so cool I thought I would save the seeds and try to grow them ourselves. 

So far so good all the seeds I planted sprouted and are looking pretty good so far, we will keep these guys inside for the winter as well.  Also, while we were in Dallas our friend Andy juiced a bunch of fruits and vegetables for us.  One of the fruits was a pineapple, and he gave the top so that we could try and grow our own at our house (he is currently growing 2). 

 

I know ours looks pretty sad right now but I’m told that it’s growing roots so some of the leaves might die off.  Hopefully it will perk up once it gets some roots going, and in a year or two we might get to have a pineapple that we grew ourselves (which would be pretty cool).  We will keep you updated on our different wintering techniques, and how they are working for us.

House of Dreams

So I put the front and back wall on the hoop house this morning, and I thought I would share what they looked like.  So here’s the north side (this side faces our house and will get the most wind during the winter months),  I still need to put the guide ropes back on, but I had to call Keturah to get her advice on the best way to go about it.

 

This side is what we are calling the front or the south side.  This side is where we have our entrance, which is basically just overlapping sheets of plastic (which is kind of hard to see in this picture, but trust me it's there).

So that’s it, our next step is to cut back the plants inside the hoop house and take some clippings of the tomato plants that we wanted to winter in the house.  I might transplant our jalapeno plants into the hoop house; they didn’t make the cut when the last set of pvc pipes broke.