No-Till Bed Termination and Thriving Hoop House Tomatoes

Experimenting with how to best terminate a bed of arugula without tilling it in.  We tried mowing it with a flail mower, but it came back quicker than expected.  After that we used the wheel-hoe to finish it off.  In the future mowing and then tarping could be a good combination.

Our few rows of cherry tomatoes in the hoop house are thriving.  They’re almost twice as tall as their colleagues outside, despite having been seeded and transplanted a month later.  It would undoubtedly be helpful to have additional high tunnels in the future.

— Robin Hackett, Farm Manager