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Season Extension: Variety Trials and Selection

These resources can help you determine which crops will be best suited to your season extension goals and growing conditions.

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Late-season Strawberry Production Using Day-neutral Cultivars in High-elevation High Tunnels

Type: Western SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

Journal article discussing research trials involving day-neutral cultivars, high tunnels, low tunnels...

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Moving Nursery Producers Toward Sustainable Practices Fact Sheets

Type: Southern SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

These fact sheets discuss alternative containers, marketing and crop selection, alternatives to synthetic...

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Organic Production of Blackberries in High Tunnels in West Virginia

Type: Northeast SARE Ag Innovations

The objective of this project was to evaluate the feasibility of growing blackberries organically within...

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Organic Winter Production Scheduling in Unheated High Tunnels in Colorado

Type: Western SARE Ag Innovations

Colorado State University researchers and five farmers explored winter production scheduling for optimal...

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Season-Long Strawberry Production with Everbearers for Northeastern Producers

Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

This 70-page guide outlines profitable production techniques and research on everbearing strawberry...

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Specialty Crop Production in High Tunnels

Type: Western SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

Utah State University fact sheet series includes raspberries, lettuce, summer squash, tomatoes and strawberries....

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Using Low Tunnels to Extend the Growing Season for Organic Strawberries in Alabama

Type: Southern SARE Ag Innovations

This project was designed as a demonstration project to determine if the strawberry harvest season could...

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Jaeckel

Winter and Summer Hoophouse Production for Small-Scale Growers

Type: Western SARE Project Summary

Brad Jaeckel tested a diversity of winter and summer vegetables that can be grown in unheated hoophouses....

Additional Resources

The following resources, which were not funded or produced by SARE, contain valuable information.

Center for Plasticulture at Penn State University (a website with information on crop production, including cucumber, garlic, lettuce and tomato)

Fall Spinach - Harvest Date and Yield in High Tunnels and Spinach Cultivar Trial in a 3-Season Haygrove High Tunnel (Kansas State University fact sheets)

High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production (a University of Missouri fact sheet)

Organic Greenhouse Tomato Production (this fact sheet is available through ATTRA)

Organic Greenhouse Tomato Production (an ATTRA fact sheet)

Watering and Fertilizing Tomatoes in a High Tunnel (a University of Missouri fact sheet)


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