Comments on: Building A Cheap Hoop House With Andrew Odom

By: Plan your fall garden Now!

Plan your fall garden Now! — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:02:24 +0000

[...] We are also planning to build a “hoop house” for the cooler days of fall and into winter. A what? Well, a hoop house is: [...]

By: Mike Lieberman

Mike Lieberman — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:19:00 +0000

The same way as traditional plants.

By: Ndindacathy

Ndindacathy — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:48:00 +0000

Hey. This is very informative. I do have a question: How do you water the plants?

By: Mike Lieberman

Mike Lieberman — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:09:00 +0000

Thank you for the comment and concern. I understand what you are saying, but you haven’t offered an alternative or solution.

That would be helpful for those looking to build one and not use PVC.

By: Praiseyourdog

Praiseyourdog — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:55:00 +0000

Please be mindful of the use of PVC- its manufacture creates dioxin in our environment. In Canada especially, First People have dioxin in water due to PVC manufacturing.
Please be mindful in the use of toxic and energy hog (plastic) materials.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/PVC-Primary-Contributor-Dioxin.htm
LOVE your design- what is substitute for PVC?
Check it out for yourself…dioxin present in many Canadian rivers- related to plants manufacturing PVC-
Be mindful of plastics based on lots of oil production.
Reuse- recycle-
PVC is BAD idea for gardens- please research it yourself.
Not environmentally safe.
It doesn’t make sense to use plastics in trying to enrich the planet…the resources used to make these (OIL=PLASTIC) offsets any benefit to our one green earth.

By: Mike Lieberman

Mike Lieberman — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:10:33 +0000

Nice. Might look into building some similar.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:14:49 +0000

Mine is similar to this, but on a very small scale. I used PVC to make hoops on each bed and I added a medium weight insulating cloth on top by using clamps. Here are a couple of posts from my blog about it. The insultaing cloth still did not protect my vegetables during an actual snow storm that we received (very rare to have snow), so next year, I will try some plastic and the cloth and just open it up daily on the days where the temp may rise while at work and close it up at night. The hoops are removeable, but I just leave them up all year round unless I am planting something that requires the extra room. I need to do a post on the garden, since I have lowered the beds and changed a few things around. I must say the hoops really do help even if you loose a few plants, think of what you would have lost without them. No bring plants indoors, etc.

http://allaboutmeandcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/02...
http://allaboutmeandcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/01...

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:48:30 +0000

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