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How I grow food year-round despite harsh winters
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i'm in mass and the winds from the storm the day BEFORE arthur destroyed my neighbor's green house. (his was plastic)
i've seen so many destroyed green houses in mass.
especially glass ones.
but i don't see why kansas wouldn't be just as stormy or stormier.
not much you can do about a micro burst, i think one came through here.
Quoting: queenbee 1562977 What I learned from working with plastic structures is that you must prevent them from billowing or flapping in the wind. I restrain the movement of our greenhouses by lashing them with cord crisscrossed over the top from side to side. We get some fairly high winds here, 30-45 gusts now and then, and they hold firm. You have to anchor your ropes well tho. I don't think this would be effective for glass. You're exactly right about needing to prevent billowing/flapping. My strategy is to use 2 layers of greenhouse plastic and little "squirrel cage fans" to inflate the space in between them to make it like a rigid balloon. It's kind of amazing how well that works, the inflated tunnels just seem to laugh at 70-80 MPH winds that have shattered our windows and toppled our neighbors trees. If I only used 1 layer of greenhouse plastic, the straps would be an absolute necessity, or my tunnel would get shredded within weeks here on the open plains.
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