Hoop House

After my experiment with a hoop house last fall we decided to build a a better hoop house that we'll be able to use and reuse to extend our growing season. So, our Sunday project was to build a hoop house. We did some research on-line and based our design on what we learned. 


We used 3/4" PVC pipe, connectors, 3.5 mil plastic to cover it

first we attached fasteners to the inside of the beds to hold the pipes

we cut the pipes to size

and put the pipes in the fasteners and bent them to the middle and attached them with connectors

once we had the three hoops on we attached the spine 

then it was time to get the plastic cover ready, we got a single sheet that we cut in half, stapled to a thin piece of wood on either side, stretched it over the hoops and screwed the wood into the beds for a tight seal on the sides 

we used 1"PVC pipe and cut it to 2" pieces and cut about a quarter of the pipe out, filed it down and used those to clip the plastic to the hoops

the view from inside 

After all our hard work yesterday I went to check the house this morning and discovered that it was warm and moist inside. 

Some of the seeds I'd started inside have been coming up so I moved them to their new hoop home.