In our Northern Climate it is essential to have a "green house" environment to grow tomatoes. In the past we have used walls of water but haven't had much luck with those. So this year Randy built these "hot boxes" to house our tomato plants in the garden. He made six of them. Here you can see the construction of the frames...
After building the frames and staining them, he completed the other two sides with lengths of white pipe that can be removed for easy fold down and storage of the hot boxes. Then he surrounded and topped them in plastic...
He left the bottom of the plastic long to cover with dirt to give them more stability...
After they were positioned in the garden, he dug holes in them and...
planted four of them with tomato plants...
And watered them...
And covered them up....
So far they have been working GREAT! If you reach your hand inside you can feel the moist warm feeling. The tomatoes are smiling! ;) During the day, he opens it up a little and then closes it up at night. We are excited to maybe have our first decent tomato crop this year.We will keep you posted!
2 comments:
Your gardening inspiration is great. Now if you have tomatoes a lot sooner than most we'll know those frames are the way to go. It sure looks like a good idea.
What a great idear. As cool as it's been this year, we could use a few of these ourselves.
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