Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear all that. Our issue is strictly financial and the medical issues are just that obamacare has destroyed our finances :(
I’ve got some plastic tarp hubby scrounged somewhere and we use t-posts with cut off drink bottles over the end to ‘cushion’ the edge so things don’t tear and make our own low tunnels that way. I had bell peppers the week or maybe two weeks after thanksgiving here one year. fully a month and change after the first freeze.
Do please keep us updated on your experiments/etc. That’s definitely something we want to try to get a good supply of winter greens w/o having to worry about covering/uncovering a low tunnel.
Hydroponic lettuce is actually really, really easy. And Tomatoes require a different technique so it’s either a different setup, or you can just get a tomato bag. That’s one of the best things ever.
Tomatoes are great.
To grow the hydroponic potatoes is like a bucket for 2 potatoes which is a tough thing to swallow cost wise.
Reminds me of my dad, who has 2 chickens. He calculates $3 per egg. That’s steep.