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Mini-hoop House
comments (20) March 18th, 2010 in Gallery
This is a picture of the mini-hoop house I built myself. I am not very handy with tools, but set my mind to it. The box is 12 ft. x 4 ft. x 12 in. My husband got the tools out, but I did all of it and even got the 660 lb. of stone and shoveled it around the edges. Next will be the soil, and finally a covering of thick plastic and jugs full of water. The water jugs will warm during the day and radiate at night to keep it a few degrees warmer. After the plastic comes off due to warm temperatures, I will install deer fencing around the sides. The plastic covering will give me an early start on lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots and other small veggies and also extend the season in the fall. These small veggies seem to get lost in the larger garden, as the mulch in there is very bulky and course (my own blend). This new raised bed garden will have very fine soil.
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That's a great looking early start project. I will say that I built something similar here in central Texas several years ago out of flexible PVC pipe and heavy mil, transparent plastic. Our extended UV onslaught during our five month long summers pretty much destroyed those materials in short order. Since then, I'm back to raised bed gardening "in the great outdoors". However, if I ever do it again, I'll build a metal skeleton with some version of rigid plastic panels - for several times the price of that original structure I'm sure.
Joe TM's
Posted: 5:50 pm on June 13th
The reason the raised bed are 3 x 4 is that i used 4, 3x5x1/2 Backer boards for the bottoms of each bed with suitable drainage holes.
Posted: 4:57 pm on March 31st
http://www.ehow.com/how_5236480_construct-greenhousescreenhouse-raised-gardenbed.html
I have had no problem growing anything in this. The screening in the summer protects plants from our intense Texas sun and from birds and squirrles who think I'm growing for them.
Having fun gardening is wonderful, eating what you grow is even more fun!
Posted: 9:34 am on March 31st
Posted: 5:20 pm on March 22nd
I put mine on a concrete pad so i didn't have to fill them with stone.
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Posted: 8:21 pm on March 18th
To answer your question about the pipe supports, They are metal conduit. I got them at Home Depot in the electrical section for $2.85 each - they are 1/2 diameter and 10 ft long. To bend them I used 2 methods, a hand held pipe bender tool and my foot. You meed to measure and mark each of the supports before bending them. One mark in the middle, 1 mark 1 1/2ft away from the center on either side and the next one is 2 feet from the previous and the last bend is minor to get it to lay flat along with height of the box - 12 inches. As you can see, mine are not exactly the same, but they are close enough.
The supports are attached to the boards with 1/2 inch metal brackets and screws you can get at Home Depot or any hardware store. Make sure you use exterior deck screws, or they will rust. The screw used for the bracklets will likely poke through the other side, but just use a metal file to sand it down, so you don't cut your self while working in the bed.
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