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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.
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...
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...
Organic Heirloom Tomato Production in High Tunnel and Open Field Systems
Type: Southern SARE Ag Innovations
A replicated, systems-level comparison study was carried out to evaluate the production of the popular...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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)
How to Order
Availability varies by resource (many are accessible for free online). See individual resources for more information.
