How to Build a HOOP HOUSE A Complete Step by Step Guide

Table Of Content

• Get more growing days—if not weeks!
• PVC Cold Frame Hoop House
• Making Frames for The door and Window
• Bending the poles for making Hoops
• Main Frame Components
• DIY Gardening Project: Build a Hoop House
• Interconnecting the hoops using 1/4 Wooden frame
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As our crops begin to expire, we encourage all gardeners to make use of some of the techniques they know to save on water and reduce inputs. Next, fold up the plastic sheet and secure it with some heavy-duty staples. Then, set up your hoop house by placing the hoop in the center of the plastic sheet.

Get more growing days—if not weeks!

The wooden dowels should be perfectly aligned along the thread. The following tables provide information on the number of poles required to build a Hoop House based on the selected length of the hoop tunnel. Table 02 provides information on the number of poles required when the spacing between the hoops is 4 feet. Whereas, Table 03 provides the information for Hoop spacing of 3 feet. Our company has gone through the engineering process for our structures, and when doing so for our 30 ft. wide gothic high tunnel, the process has been relatively painless.

PVC Cold Frame Hoop House

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The growth in hoop house production is due, in significant part, to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program. You can start planting even sooner if you cover your soil with plastic. The daytime temperature inside a high tunnel is degrees warmer than the outside temperature on a sunny day.

Making Frames for The door and Window

Seed germination and plant growth are accelerated as a result of the temperature. It also allows you to harvest cold-hardy veggies all year, allowing you to farm all year. Our non-engineered greenhouses extend your growing season and boost production.

Two 1 1/4 ” dry wall screws go through the greenhouse plastic holding the two boards together. Our cold frames are stored during the summer, when they are not needed, to protect them from the elements. The end doors of the hoop house are removed and stored as well. Hands down the best bang for you buck when you're looking to install an enclosed growing space. These greenhouses feature sturdy steel frames and cost-effective plastic film as a covering.

Main Frame Components

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In order to have a good looking and uniform structured greenhouse, it is better to use a specific pole bender designed for that particular width of the greenhouse. As this greenhouse is 12 feet wide so we have used pole bender specifically designed for 12 feet hoop houses. The details on this pole bender are provided in the DIY Hoop House Materials Article. Vertical gardening is another approach to enhance the development potential of your high tunnel. You’re wasting a lot of space if you’re only using the ground level. You can purchase vertical gardening kits to attach to the tunnel, or you can save money and make your own.

DIY Gardening Project: Build a Hoop House

Bootstrap Farmer offers a DIY hoop house/high tunnel kit that starts at 20 ft and includes all the hardware and tools, but not the parts that would be cheaper to buy locally (they provide a list). A large farm-sized hoop house will cost about $5 to $10 per square foot. Through the summer we allow our hoop house to rest, as we don’t want to have to supply it with water. The soil under a hoop house can be used for food production in summer and be very productive, as long as you water it. Unlike a stationary hoop house, a mobile one increases the flexibility and variety of your planting schedule, and it puts more land into production. In an ambitious home plot, a smaller-scale hoop house would boost winter fare.

Interconnecting the hoops using 1/4 Wooden frame

The door frame is stabilized at the bottom on both sides by a length of 3/8″ rebar driven into the ground and stapled to the sides of the door frame as pictured. I had to offset the door a little to the left because of the lengths of 2″ X 4″ boards I had available. If you look at the bottom of the door frame you will see the right side raised up a little. To frame the door in the front, I used some odd lengths of 2″ X 4″ that had been left over from a previous project. There is a string attached to the top of the window and tied to a “J” hook which holds it shut. The hoop house is oriented east/west with a long side, 32′, facing south.

For homesteaders, nurseries or back yard gardening, Hoop House USA will have a solution for you. A cold frame is an inexpensive, but efficient prefabricated hoop house that has the capacity to hold crops throughout the year. Several hoops are bolted together and covered with an earth floor, which protects you from frost in winter and heat in summer. After setting up your hoop house, take the time to lay out the beds to maximize square footage. Also consider how care and maintenance needs differ from farming in open fields.

The top end of the rebars are inserted into the holes of the poles and it will anchor the poles but you can also use the PVC pipes for this task. Then take wooden dowels (Wooden Nails) and hammer them into the ground. They will be used to support the wooden base wall frames.

For designing the door you can use the same 2/4 wood which u have used for the frames. We have used 2/2 wooden frames for making the door in this project. Take 1/4 wooden frame and connect it to all of the hoops together by screws. This will improve the strength of the hoop house and will make it bear strong winds. The Figure below shows the side layout of the Hoop House. For this design, the expected height of the greenhouse is above 6 feet at the center and the height of the wooden base wall is 6 inches.

The window is made out of 1″ X 2″ lumber with simple braces on each corner. Next, lengths of 1/2″ PVC conduit were measured and cut so the hoops were kept at 4′ apart at the peak. As can be seen, one condensation trap was placed under each hoop at the peak. They were white PVC so we painted them gray for UV protection. At the top, the peak, or ridge, we used 1/2″ PVC conduit connected to 1/2″ PVC condensation traps.

Now we have the means to roll the sides up as needed and hold the rolled sides up by hooking the plastic binder twine with the loop in the end over the “J” hook. This gives us a much better idea of the temperature at the plant level. Problem with that placement is heat rises and we were not getting the temperature at the plant level. To get 28 four inch clips you need three 48 inch 1″ snap clamps. You will need about a foot hanging over the edge of the hoop on each side. The area below the window can be one piece stapled to the 1″ X 2″ board that runs underneath the window from side to side.