PVC Hoop House Plans with PDF

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by Sylvia Smith
Matt Moody and Paula Davidson's hoop house in Cabot, VT.

Use our PVC hoop house plans with pdf and start building a hoop house to start growing earlier in spring and continue gardening long past your area’s killing frosts and into winter.

Gardening inside a hoop house is like moving part of your land hundreds of miles south, all for a modest investment in materials and time. It’s proof that a bit of simple technology can definitely go a long way.

Hoop houses are greenhouses made by covering a plastic or metal hoop structure with one layer (or sometimes two) of clear plastic. They are low-tech and low-cost compared with glass greenhouses.

Hoop houses give benefits throughout your growing season — far more than just the obvious advantage of protection from frost. Decreased wind pressure on seedlings, more humid growing conditions and higher internal concentrations of carbon dioxide during the main part of the season are reasons why they deliver better food, and more of it. For northern gardeners, hoop houses also bring the reality of spring planting and nurturing closer to the actual time the late-winter gardening enthusiasm naturally kicks in. The warmth and serenity of a hoop house offers a pleasant space to work, rest and recharge yourself, too. Hoop houses with roll-up sides and shade cloths even deliver benefits in hot climates by providing variable amounts of protection from blistering sun.

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  • Updated on May 10, 2023
  • Originally Published on Sep 8, 2011
Tagged with: Hoop Houses
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