How can the House of Representatives to extend the growing season-hop
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, http://voaspecialenglish.com
Today, we discuss the phenomenon of global warming.
The farmers used the park and greenhouses to extend the long growing season in cold weather. Now, hop houses are gaining popularity. Sometimes called Hoop houses greenhouses temporary or passive solar greenhouses.
House of Hope is basically a metal frame covered with plastic or other weather resistant. Common design is similar to a high tunnel. Unlike global warming, which uses a heating system, house is heated by the sun's heat-hop.
Now, the United States announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture program to help farmers who want to build homes hop.
Department, through collaborative research in the State, Education and Extension Service, was to support the project in Michigan. This state has a short growing season.
As part of a research project, received nine of equipment and training farmers how to build and use the house-hop. The results showed that plants Hoop houses well-managed can grow high quality.
However, crops are not the only thing that grows well. Research has shown that weeds grow faster in the house hop. Weeding, planting and irrigation needs at least to work as much as plants grown in the open air. The researchers also advised producers to add compost to the soil material in the home-hop-building nutrients.
Eliot Coleman is a writer and organic farmer in Maine, who helped promote the idea of agriculture for four seasons. His thoughts seemed to hop a good home for John Biernbaum in the Ministry of horticulture at the University of Michigan.
Professor tried to hop Biernbaum houses on the farm membership of students in the state of Michigan, and was a success. Said project manager David Conner as a "test drive" for research in the private farms.
Points of agricultural economics at the request of local cultures. "People are hungry for vegetables, fresh and good," he said.
Hoop houses can even crop, winter can be found in the White House, where First Lady Michelle Obama vegetable garden.
Small houses because of limited space on the South Lawn.
Specializes in home-hop at the University of Michigan, and Adam Montri, videos on YouTube explaining how to build one. You can go to voaspecialenglish.com and the search for a link to his tapes, as well as a link to our videos on YouTube.
This is your KUNA English Agriculture Report.
(Adapted from 22Dec2009 Radio program)
How can the House of Representatives to extend the growing season-hop
