Easy DIY Hoop House
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this video I show how to build a portable hoophouse using about $20 worth of materials. Thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this content, please subscribe to my channel. You can also check out my podcast (maritimegardeni...) where we discuss how to grow healthy food in your backyard cheaply and easily.
This is the best gardening tip I have ever seen!
Glad it was helpful!
Securing the plastic with sewing, I absolutely will be using that.
love the entro -- great video Greg !!
Thanks Frank!
Everyone always says to use the PVC tubing but if I were to do that the cost of a single hoop house would be ridiculous... I knew there was a cheaper way! Thank you sir for this tutorial!!
I felt the same way about that approach - the pvc tubing design is also less windproof. We get crazy wind here sometimes
Sweet..I may very well make some of these for my raised beds this year. Thanks for the idea and happy gardening!
Thank you for taking the time to make your videos. I've watched several in the last few days and they're helping me a lot to prepare for my first gardening season in my no till permaculture garden here in zone 7. I don't have a lot of money to spend and appreciate your sustainable and non-intimidating approach.
Great! Thanks that's so nice to hear, and that's exactly the experience I was trying to create :)
Love it: pragmatic, functional and cheap. What I like also about your design is that there is air flow through the open ends, particularly important in the wet winters we get on the Wet Coast - the plants and ground tend to mould under an air-tight poly tunnel.Thanks! Will keep in mind for the fall.
Thanks!
Looking forward to making these - thanks!
Great - one tip - use 2x3 instead of 1x3 - they will hold up better over time. At least use 2x3 for the short 4' sides.
@@maritimegardening4887 yes, that IS a good tip! And I have a few of those:)
I love your innovative and easy to use design and the way you keep the cost of build down.
Thanks . Check the follow-up - that design worked fine, but it fell apart during he winter - I made a video of me repairing it and making it stronger.
Will definitely be trying that. Thank you
Thank you. I've been researching green houses and business ideas. I'm in Minnesota and this was very educational. Ty again.
Thanks! Glad to help
@@maritimegardening4887 your very welcome
Thanks for this video. It is 3 years since you made it and I just found it. I built it in about 2 hours after spending $50 (had to buy the vapour barrier so I have lots remaining) exactly to your design, and added an L bracket in each corner. I used 2x4 (heavier but didn't need the middle brace) and the screws to secure the wire mesh as you did (someone suggested zip ties - I considered that but didn't think they would hold the wire mesh from moving).
As a second comment, I am also going to be using mulch way more this year than in the past.
Thanks for your videos.
Thanks man. Like you, I've upgraded to heavier wood - recommending 2x3s in subsequent videos. Here's another vid that I did on a hoop-house re-fit: ruclips.net/video/JZDqaEjuWiQ/видео.html
And here's yet another design: ruclips.net/video/ay2WXkA0LQw/видео.html
Thank you for sharing your videos, I find them very encouraging and you have some really great ideas about making gardening more simple and that always helps!
You are so welcome!
Thanks for sharing your garden with us! You've given us a great introduction to Nova Scotia.
Its in the minus twenties here all week in Alberta. Looking forward to joining the kids in your beautiful province by next summer.
Are you moving here?
Yes. we are in the process of it now. The economy in Alberta, has affected realty, so it's been a slow process. Or seems so, as we are eager to join our daughter, and family. They live in Bedford, as Son-in-law, and daughter both work in Halifax... we've been looking, and hope to live somewhere nearby, but a more rural, with a small holding, or acreage, where we can grow our own veg, and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
There's plenty of places like that within about 20 min of Bedford - you should have no prob finding something for 300k or less. The further out of town you go, the cheaper it gets.
thanks for this , wish I'd seen it last year before the wasted effort I put into mine . cheers and keep up the good work.
Well I think you may have just answered my question on my early seedlings, this is better for me too as it's a pain to have them inside to germinate so it will be outside for me too, this is a great idea, thanks you so much, will definitely will be trying this, this coming spring time. Thank you so much.
I'm really happy with how this works - better than a coldframe in many ways. Cheaper and far more versatile.
Hi from Yarmouth NS.. Just discovered your channel .. Have been binge watching ..
Thanks man that's great! Was out in my garden this morning. What a weird winter this has been! BTW, If you're thinking about building your own-hoop-houses. Watch the follow-up on this vid - the design was a little wimpy and they fell apart over the winter.
Thanks for your channel. I live in Maine and while there are a lot of great gardening channels, most of them are from the south or west coast. I heard it snowed up north the other day!
Glad you like it. I'll try to get more up this year than last. We have a lot of podcast episodes (maritimegardening.com) but less video thus far.
if you would bend wire a little to train it for the bow its gonna take on it might make it easier when you put it on just watching you I get ideas about things hope you dont mind my suggestions I cant wait to try some of your ideas oh and tie wraps might work to hold metal on. and be easier to put on
Those are both great ideas that I'll have to keep in mind the next time I build one of these thanks :)
Crazy intro music
Poor mans countersink. Thats funny
Finally someone got that joke!!!
Wish I would have watched this last year, I could be outside right now. Oh well maybe next year. Ps. I love propeller Ipa
Just had one an hour ago!
couple of questions:
1) any issues with wind picking and flying them away or do you stake/tie them to the garden beds?
2) how do you store them for the rest 10-11 months of the year when they are not needed? I am thinking if you make them each about 6" longer than the other could they be stacked neatly inside each other to reduce storage space required? (other than having to remove the middle bar)
Hi Big Al! first question, yes, big problem, they basically have to be tied down or secured in some other fashion or they will fly away. Second question, I have a lotof land so I stuck them in the woods behind my house. You are right, a design would allow "nesting" would be ideal, and that is what I would recommend for anyone with less space for storage. Funny you should ask those questions - I'm actually editing a video right now on the state of those hoop-houses - stay tuned!
Excellent video! Thanks for the link. QUESTIONS:
(1) you said you had a taller cover the previous year but didn’t like it. Why?
(2) I noticed in your video what looks like flat covers over your beds. Did you create them the same way minus the remesh?
(3) Why the flat? Do they thaw the ground faster and then you use the domed covers for planting and frost protection?
(4) have you ever tried growing cold hardy lettuces through the winter like the Patrick on OYR - One yard Revolution?
OK Qs in order:
1) Not sure what I said or what I meant sorry :)
2) Yes, just a rectangle with plastic on it
3) The flat ones take up less room in storage - that's it. They help thaw out the soil and and can help with germination, but of course there's no height so you can't grow anything.
4) OYR gets more sun in the winter than I do, so his hoophouses are able to capture more heat. It's very foggy and overcast here all winter long - not ideal for hot-house growing. Under plastic, really tough things like spinach and lettuce start to grow here around the end of Feb. In my most recent vid you can see how little growth there has been in the spinach that I planted in a coldframe 40 days ago. Patrick has a colder winter than me, but he has more sunlight because of his location, which is not on the edge of the North Atlantic :)
Also - really should redo this video, and sound is lousy sorry about that. Gonna build another one sometime this year - stay tuned for that. Also - Use 2x3 for the side peices, 1x3 is a bit wimpy :)
Maritime Gardening
Thank you for your quick replies!
@@maritimegardening4887 extremely helpful! I am over in BC, and I just direct seeded some of my garden. I put a sheet of poly overtop (flat) for the first day, but I worried it needed to be domed so I just popped some buckets underneath it. This is my first year planting this early, and I only put in more cold weather tolerant plants. My hope is to give the plants a little more warmth to come up!
Great system. I live in MN with a short season. Our techniques and philosophies are similar. Just wanted to know if the lip on your raised beds is all you need to keep the hoop top from blowing away in high wind?
I'll be honest - the wind and snow have totally demolished them. Planning to repair/rebuild them and make a video of lessons learned. re: your other question - answer is NO :) And yes, I learned that the hard way :)
Maritime Gardening
Have you made your video yet on lessons learned from using your domed covers? If so? Please provide the link so I can view it. Thanks.
By the way, a channel you might like to view is OYR (One Yard Revolution). Patrick has devised covers for his beds and have used them successfully year after year. I think he lives in Michigan in zone 5 which gets a lot of snow too.
yep, it's about what I would have done. I would have used pvc over the wire mesh, maybe wire next time!
I find that this stands up to being covered in freezing rain a little better.
It was hard for me to get an idea of what exactly you were doing when you were attaching the screen. Taking a few close up shots would have been really helpful. I could only guess at how the screen was placed and how the screws were holding it and, for that matter, the direction you were putting the screws in.
Sorry Beth - I have no camera man, so that sort of thing gets forgotten sometimes when I'm in the midst of getting stuff done. You're right that would have been better. The plastic is just stapled on, and you start in the middle and work your way out. There's a follow up video where I do some repairs on them that might help. I can shoot a little footage on how I attached the mesh - there's been a couple questions about that so I don't mind doing that if it helps people.
do you like your cold frames or hoop houses better and why (aside from hoop house mobility)? Are the walls of cold frames any useful for plants at all in the summer (e.g wind protection)?
If I had to choose, I prefer the hoop houses. I like being able to remove them. I like being able to use them on different bed - I like the flexibility.
I like this a lot. Is it the heads of the screws that hold the remesh down on the length ? I also am confused about the third screw you use in the corners ???
Yes the's right, the heads hold it down. The third screw is drilled on a an angle for added purchase. Over the course of the season, this design did prove a little flimsy. I think I'll replace the shorter pieces with 2x3 next year. Ix3 is a really a little too wimpy. I'll do a vid on that later.
Thank You !
I'm just gearing up to building a green house. Maybe I might change my mind again.
Pretty cheap and effective, and then you can easily put them away once the weather warms up. Also, I just noticed the other day - and this was completely by accident, they stack perfectly on top of one another. I think 2x3 or 2x4 would be a little sturdier - but the 1x3 is fine and it's what I had kicking around, so that kept things cheap.
If folks want to sew it on, a heavy duty sail needle would probably work well. Personally, I'd duck tape it. Of course, it would probably come apart faster in the rain. . .
I used small zip-ties for repairs - seems to be ideal.
Hello, how did you figure the width of the wire so it's not too tall?
The wire comes in 4'x8' dimensions. If you make the outside edge of the wooded part about 40", you get a 12" high dome give or take. Just bend the mesh against a tape measure until you see that the dome is the height that you want - and use that dimension :) Hope that helps.
how does that plastic hold up to hail?
It holds up fine
You talk about planting tomatoes early under the hoop houses; You also mentioned a chance of frost as late as June. What zone are you in?
I'm in zone 6a. The ground is forzen here usually untill end of march or early april - sometimes even as late as end of May - but that's rare. I direct seeded my tomatoes May 1 this year in coldframes and they came in great - so next season I will try to start them in place using the hoop houses.
Maritime Gardening
So what are your frost dates?
Un vivero no me vas a enseñar a mi no no