WARSAW, N.Y. — Come learn how high tunnels work to grow crops throughout the year. This session will focus on crops grown in the tunnels during the colder months and timing your transition to warm weather plantings like peppers, tomato, and cucumbers.
Early Season Growing and Transitioning High Tunnel to Warm Weather Crops
Thursday, May 2, 2019
4:30pm
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County
36 Center Street, Warsaw, NY 14569
Whether you are looking to get an early start in the spring, grow later into the fall, or even keep cold hardy plants alive throughout the winter, this session will have information you need. Demonstration will include a comparison of size and quality, of late fall planted/over wintered greens, spinach and lettuce, to early spring plantings. We will gather indoors and then take a short walk out to the on-site high tunnel. The session will be primarily outdoors in the high tunnel, so please dress for the weather. If you arrive late and would like to catch up with the group, the high tunnel is south of the building perpendicular to the large white barn.
Discussion Topics to Include:
• High Tunnel Basics, Site Selection, and Orientation
• Timing Cool Weather Plantings
• Temperature Control within High Tunnels
• Transitioning from Cold Weather Crops to Warm Weather Crops
• Irrigation of Cold Weather Crops vs. Warm Weather Crops.
• Fertilization
• Common Pests and Disease
• Use of Row Cover for Overwintering Crops
• Resources
• Q and A on Everything High Tunnel
Cost: $10.00 for non-enrollees or $5.00 for CCE Ag enrollees
QUESTIONS? Contact Don Gasiewicz at 585-786-2251 x113 or drg35@cornell.edu
Pre-Registration Required. To REGISTER, please contact Lisa at 585-786-2251 x123 or lma96@cornell.edu or register online at: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/EarlySeasonHighTunnel2019_256
*Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by calling CCE Wyoming at (585) 786-2251 no later than 10 days prior to the event to ensure sufficient time to make arrangements. Requests after this date will be met when possible.
Contact: Don Gasiewicz, Horticulture/Natural Resources Community Educator
Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County
Phone: 585-786-2251 x113
E-mail: drg35@cornell.edu
–Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County