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How to Build a PVC Hoop House - Gardening Tip

Posted By TipNut On March 4, 2008 @ 1:22 pm In DIY Projects, Garden & Plants | No Comments

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Today’s feature is from Westside Gardener with instructions for How to Build A PVC Hoophouse For Your Garden [1]:

An unheated PVC hoophouse can be a useful addition to your garden. It keeps excessive rain off the plants, blocks the wind, raises daytime temperatures 5-10 degrees (and often much more), and keeps frosts and heavy dew off the leaves. This can extend your warm-season gardening a month or more at both ends, and makes it possible for year-round gardeners to grow a wider variety of plants through the winter.

PVC hoophouses are inexpensive to build, and can be put up in about an hour. Take a look, and decide for yourself!

Where I live there are plenty of things that don’t grow well because the season’s too short. My yard’s a bit small for a hoop house, but I do have good success with cold frames [2], it’s a temporary solution for holding bedding plants and seedlings. When the weather turns nice, just take them out and plant in your garden and containers.

A cold frame’s not as great as a hoop house (where you could grow large amounts of plants directly in the ground, protected), but it’s a nice perk.

For more DIY greenhouse and gardening projects, see Sherry’s Greenhouse Projects List [3], that’s where I found the hoop house plans.
Also See These Tips:

* How To Build A Cold Frame With An Old Window [2]
* How To Build A Raised Garden Bed - Cheap [4]
* How to Build a $15 Compost Bin [5]

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[1] How to Build A PVC Hoophouse For Your Garden: http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html

[2] cold frames: http://tipnut.com/how-to-build-a-cold-frame-with-an-old-window/

[3] Sherry’s Greenhouse Projects List: http://www.sherrysgreenhouse.com/pages/structures/greenhouses-build.html

[4] How To Build A Raised Garden Bed - Cheap: http://tipnut.com/how-to-build-a-raised-garden-bed-cheap/

[5] How to Build a $15 Compost Bin: http://tipnut.com/how-to-build-a-15-compost-bin/

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