Building A DIY Greenhouse - A High Tunnel Hoop House To Extend Growing Season In Northern Ontario
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- We have a short growing season here. June through September - in a good year. After building our first greenhouse for spring seedlings and winter gardening, we started work on our high tunnel. A hoop house like this should add a few weeks onto both ends of our growing season. This is a quick overview of how we built our high tunnel hoop house out of reclaimed lumber and various logs and other ingredients from our property.
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Cool set up. Happy gardening!
Thanks, you too!
Good job . Mine is similar but I put farm fence over the framework before the plastic. It just adds some extra support between the frame tubes . 🇨🇦🔥
Perfect I'm totally going to copy your build ;) and Hello from Prince George BC 🙋♀️
Run bail wire for extra support on the poly
Looking really nice. Great work!
Thank you! Cheers Morgan!
Impressive in every which way. Awesome stuff guys 👍👍
Thanks dude!!
Awesome work guys!! The subs keep coming in! Almost 10k subs!! Way to go!! Another great upload.
So close!
Your hoop house looks wonderful. We are just about done with ours and planning on getting some plants in the ground this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
You can do it!
Damn! You guys have a load of plants started. That is awesome. Your Hoop house is very similar to ours minus the extra supports that you are talking about putting in. Last year when we got the 4 feet of snow, our hoop house electrical PVC sagged in a few spots but the roof did hold up. With all the snow that you get I think your extra support higher up is a good idea. That's a nice beefy ridge pole too. Perfect. Loved seeing your property...and snow free! Yay. And all that free poo, Nice!
Oh man - and there are even more in the house still under lights! We totally modelled this one after yours. Yours is much prettier though!! Drone battery died on me. Otherwise I'd have had some better shots just for you from above buddy. Cheers!
@@Wilderstead This should be quite a productive year for you guys.👍Bummer on the drone footage.🙂 My yuneec breeze batteries died over the winter.
I'm building a similar structure, but my frame is a salvaged 10' x 16' portable garage unit... they're all over the place, for free. I asked on fb and now have several. I have purlins on the roof for support and lined the roof portion (my frame is shaped like a traditional gable roof building) with sheets of 6 x 6 in. concrete reinforcing mesh to hang strings from for tomato and vining plant support. Also helps on low slope roof with prevent rain and snow accumulation "sag". So far all is going well. Since the structure has about 6 ft high walls, I'm builidng roll up sides the full height. Ends will have large doors with rolll up "curtains". Tunnel Vison Hoops LLC on RUclips has lots of great videos for GH builds. BTW, I'm zone 4 in Sudbury, ON. Hi neighbour!
Nice. We built one using an old portable garage frame as well. They work great.
@@Wilderstead I'm a big fan of these discarded frames. I have one of the cathedral arch types set up as a trellis for my pole beans on the east side... have strings up over the centre beam for the plants to cling to (they make it all the way to the top - 14') and in fall I let the strings down to harvest the beans). Apple trees are espaliered on the west wall. Another one is a cut down gable end style that is over my brassica., garlic and leek bed and covered with heavy duty insect netting from Dubois Agrinovation to keep cabbage moth and garlic/leek moth off the plants. Also installed one at my daughter's in Toronto... covered it with 1" hardware cloth to keep the hordes of marauding coons, squirrels and possums from her veggies. And another one is to be set up over a bunch of my equipment and compost materials. I like that your videos are to the point. Busy gardeners don't have time for all the fluff stuff... and I usually refuse to click on dumb looking click bait titles and photos... seems to be a trend to get attention, but not mine.
Hello Dave and Amanda. How are you Caddis . Very nice greenhouse you put together. Looks like your well on your way with those starts. Im looking forward to seeing more videos as always . Take care. Paul
It's been a lot of work, but its starting to come together paul! Hope you and the boys are doing alright!
Epic! Awesome work, cant wait to see that thing in full force production!
You and me both!
Awesome, love how you set up the inside!
Thank you! Cheers!
That's a great big pile of steaming crap! Hahaha! You guys inspire me so much. Especially with dealing with the same conditions as us!
You guys are really getting stuff done! Good job!
Thanks Mallorie!
Nice hoop house, I was at the home Depot today, each little plant start goes for about 3 to 5 us.dollors. $$ You have there hundreds of $$$worth. You guys are part of a shout out I'm posting tomarrow.😀
Oh wow! Gonna be sure to check it out!
Been a while, my friend! I'm glad to see your (I'll skip the jokes) face again. Hope you and Amanda are doing well!!!!
Oh, and quick recommendation - peel the bark on your base logs on future projects. It greatly reduces grub and bug damage. Might give you another 5 years.
And to keep blabbing as I watch....LOVE the use of pallets inside to make the raised beds. What's better than free?
The bark - yes!! Hindsight.... Luckily, most if the bark on the foundation logs is about to peel off and disintegrate. I also planned to protect the middle post with some corrugated drain pipe a couple feet up, but forgot that too. Hahaha. Apparently I enjoy making work for myself!
@@Wilderstead I found out about bark after storing timbers for milling "later". Was surprised how much the grubs took hold!
4 years ago snow load collapsed my turkey pen... 2" thin wall steel pipe (Quebec garage) only rooved with plastic snow fence...
Tim! I was just thinking of you the other day! And yes, we'll see how this holds up come winter. Fingers crossed!
Great job
just a tip dont put your battery in the same area as yor inverter and charge controller the vapors off acid batteries will mess them up i done this on my rv before i figured what was happening many inverters later
Look forward to seeing more as the season progresses, great to see you both well carrying on !
Great setup! A greenhouse is on ou list if we can get our other projects ticked off the list...
hoop house is looking fantastic!!! hope you all are doing well :)
Thank you! You too!
Awesome video, missed you two. Hope to see more. Spring and summer are always busy!
More to come! Hopefully we can get right back into the swing of filming things again. Cheers A!
That is a great design!
goddamn, that's a nice growing space!!!!
I'll have to show Tyler this video, to illustrate how much $ you can shave off the cost of a full-height hoophouse if you live in a forest.
I presume you need a spruce log for the central support pole, for strength? We'd have to buy large-dimension lumber for that, but our poplars would serve for everything else.
Can't wait for a gardening update from you two now! I wanna see what all you have started, & hear in detail about your plans for the season. And yes, I know you're as eager to let us know as I am to see the video show up ;)
On May 15, we have 10 Rhode Island Red chicks & 10 Plymouth Barred Rock chicks arriving... the hatchery is hatching them out earliest. Then on May 29, we have 10 Buckeye chicks coming, along with our first ever bunch of Cornish Cross (just 15 for now). We'll see how we like having *that* many chickens to move around the property, but if it's not utter chaos for us (... we'll have to see how I handle everything), I'm thinking of getting a 2nd set of Cornish Cross (if they're not sold out...) for the end of June. I'm hoping my mom & stepdad want us to raise a few broilers for them, but between Tyler & myself & my 19yr old daughter who lives at home, we can definitely make use of a few dozen.
We'll of course also have somewhere around 15 heritage breed cockerels to cull in late autumn as well...
We have wayyyyyyyy too many seeds started, but at least this year we didn't start so early that everything will be demanding as much room as *last* year! Specifically, the tomatoes & peppers will be a reasonable size at last frost, instead of absolute monsters. Also, I learned my lesson from last year and didn't start beans in mid April. Got the squashes started the other day (a week or two later than last year), and I'll start the beans tomorrow.
But we're expanding our growing spaces, so we've got more started, so... it's probably a wash, in terms of availability of table surfaces in south-facing windows ;)
Anyway!
Great video, thanks for sharing :D
Hi you guys very nice hoop tent. Good work. How is your platic cover measured pks?😊
Wow, your hoop house it amazing:) sorry if I missed it but where do you get your plastic from? Thank you so much for sharing:)
That is funny that you started off with your comment about snow in N.Ontario! I love it. Thanks. I have run out of room and needed a DIY greenhouse high tunnel so Thank you and your wife. What town?
Hi Tess! We are on Lake Superior between Sault and Wawa. Cheers!
Did you say hoop house or poop house? LOL great video
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That is an awesome design! I hadn't thought about using pvc conduit to form the hoops. How tall is it in the center, and how long are the conduit pieces?
It’s about 7 feet high in the centre. The each truss is two 10 foot pieces joined together, so 20 foot for each hoop.
"We put in a pretty hefty ridge beam"
Me: "that's a tree..."
Why didn’t you hammer the rebar into the ground?
Okay, where do I buy that beanie?
I’ve had it for years. It was a gift, and I wish I could find another one. It’s made of hemp.
have you had any issues from the city? i tried to put up a greenhouse and our city (eastern Ontario) demanded an engineering review for the structure and told me i have to have a permit for it.
No issues. We're not in a city, we live in an Unorganized township. No municipal government to worry about, thankfully.
@@Wilderstead amen to that...
How did it hold up??
Great. Still rockin 3 years later.
Love your greenhouse set ups! (Just found your channel and were in northern bc so similar weather grrrs). Are you planning on heating the hoop one too for the winter or just the smaller one? Thanks for all the tips/info looking forward to watching them all!
Currently we only heat the smaller glass house. The poly hoop house would take quite a bit of effort to heat. We'll mainly have peppers and tomatoes in the hoop house. It should add a few extra weeks to our growing season.
How did it do over winter?
Still standing. We added some extra bracing. Held up with a few feet of snow on top.
Thanks so much! We are in Maine I think we will do something similar.