Getting the High Tunnel ready for planting

Well I dismantled the whole setup I had in there last year as it just did not work. Oh the plants grew very well and we got a lot of food out of it, but it was labor intensive and a constant battle with the weeds!
SO this year, about early January, after getting every thing out I gave it a good deep tilling. Back and forth both ways four different times. Got it mostly level with a construction rake. Then about a week ago we dragged in a piece of plastic called a "bunker cover" This is what farmers use to cover the silage, animal feed, that they have stored in outside, three sided bunkers. It is black on one side and white on the other. Seeing as I want the heat to be transmitted to the ground, we put the black side up. It was cut before we brought it in so that there was about two feet extra on all sides.

Before bringing it in I had dug a six inch deep by six inch wide trench all the way around the inside perimeter of the HT. The  plastic was pulled snug and anchored all around with those things called soil staples.

Then I brought in 56, 30" x 30" frames made out of 2x4 lumber. They were placed in six precise rows, front to back and labeled A thru F.  Spacing is two feet between each mini-bed each way, and two feet in from the outside walls. There is one area just inside the man door to the left that is nine foot square where I stow all the tools and stuff needed to do the work in there.

After lining them all up, I drove three, one foot long pieces of 3/4" re-rod in three corners of each mini-bed.This was just to keep them from moving around due to accidental kicks or being run into by a wheel barrow. Then I proceeded to cut the plastic, 3/4" inside the 2 x 4"s on three of the sides. I left it attached to one side so that in the event  it wasn't being used, I could recover it without having to chase around after a piece of plastic. Also keeps the wind from blowing them away!

Now I am just waiting for the ground in there to heat up to about 60 degrees and I can start dropping in some of the plants I already have growing in the greenhouse on the front of my house.

In each one of these mini-beds there will be intensive planting. There may be as many as three or four different types of plants growing in any one depending on their growth habit and symbiotic relationship with their close neighbors! Lots of plants DO NOT like every other one in the patch so you have to keep them at arms length so to speak.

My weeding between rows and beds is now non-exitistant, and the ones growing inside the bed will be minimal once the good guys get growing and shading them out!!

So now, I am going to try to upload a few pics here so you can see what I'm babbling about:

Well been trying for an hour and cannot figure it out so---- No Pics till I get a lot smarter!

TIFN