The LCMG Blog

Hello, Gardening Friends! In the last post, we talked about a season-extending structure that could handle the aggressive, and sometimes rude, SE Wyoming winds. They are called Geodesic Domes, and the University of Wyoming has written a building manual so we can build them ourselves (see the link for the publication). But what is it? I am going to be honest...I am going to do my best to put this in my own words and explain it the best I can, but I am taking help from the sam

Okay, raise your hand if you had damaged or lost a hoop house, greenhouse, row covers, cold frames, or any other season extending structure this past winter? I am raising my hand so high, I think it is out of my roof! From what I can gather, the wind storms this past winter have been, at the least, unusual, or as I was told, unlike anything ever seen in this area. We put up a hope house and promptly lost the plastic in the wind. Then, being the ever frugal and impatient perso