You got your wires crossed. You quoted me (Lazy gardener) who was talking to Blooie about her man (Ken) coming home across the mountains to either eat soup and go to bed, or go out in the cold and install a green house tarp over her cattle panel hoop house.
Bee is the FF queen. She's in West Virginia. Blooie is in super frigid Wyoming, and I'm in central Maine. Yeah, tarps get blown around if they're not held down well. One thing I do is get the tarp in place then run some nylon carpenters string in a zig zag pattern over the top of it, back and forth with roofing nails at the bottom for it to loop around before making the next zig or zag. Otherwise, it billows and works loose with every breeze. Blooie holds hers down with plastic lattice. Or, at least that's what I think she's done in the past. This season, I think I'm gonna put long fiberglass fence posts through the horizontal grommets, to give extra stability (on the tractor) then bungee cord it down. (this is for tractor being used in garden as a winter cold frame. It'll have plastic stapled on to sides, be accessible through tarp at top.) The other tarp will be over the green house (cattle panel hoop) and use the roofing nail/carpenter string zig zag and zip ties.
we are slightly crazy, but I am very active in dog rescue so we keep the ones that have either behavioral or health problems to insure that they get the best care possible. My vet says my house is where things go to not die. And where crazy dogs go to become sane.
