How to Grow Winter Hoop House Crops

Reader Contribution by Pam Dawling
Updated on October 30, 2024
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by Adobestock/Caitlin Custer

Extend your gardening season by growing winter hoop house crops. Learn about what to grow in a hoop house and all the hoop house gardening basics.

We are amazed at how incredibly productive our hoop house is, infinitely better than a cold frame! The rate of growth of cold-weather crops is much faster inside; the crop quality, especially leafy greens, is superb. Plants can tolerate lower temperatures than outdoors, as they have the pleasant daytime conditions in which to recover. Salad greens in a hoop house can survive nights with outdoor lows of 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 degrees Celsius). Winter gardening in a hoop house is much more pleasant than dealing with frozen row covers and hoops outdoors.

What to Grow in a Hoop House

We grow mainly:

  • salad crops
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