Hoop Houses for Gardens?

[Illia]

Hey, we've got a nice huge garden filled with loads of beds, and we've always been planning to put hoop houses over them by using PVC and plastic sheeting, but we've run into some problems. I'm wondering, anyone else out here use this method, and could you point me to some good instructions or ideas? We've got 1" PVC and 3/4" PVC right now, but they won't fit in each other so we're kind of stuck on what to do. . . Any ideas?

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Do a Google on "high tunnels" and you'll find more info than you will ever be able to use.

.....Alan.

 

[Boyd]

http://www.snapclamp.com/

I dare you not to loose yourself for the next 10 hours ...........

Free plans there too, and they sell more than the pastic sheeting clamps.. the funny pvc pieces you want if you want something with more than a hooped angle (doesn't hold up to snow well here in michigan)

 

[Illia]

Yeah I LOVE the snapclamp site, but their instructions on hoop houses don't work out here. . . The soil is SO loose, good, and deep with topsoil that if you just get the PVC in the ground, even 6", then bend it over to the other end, the first end just flips up out of the soil.

I think I'm just going to go by their greenhouse plans, and use a bottom frame of PVC then clamp the hoops on to that, so they stay in place. It will take more PVC to use, but it should work.

 

[Boyd]

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you can make a rigid wooden frame, and use PVC u clamps to screw to the wood. Then you can support the wood frame any way you want

Also have a solid base to staple, pinch, however the bottom of your hoop or greenhouse