JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Building a hoophouse is a very simple thing to do. If you are in a situation where you need to plant early, a simple hoophouse is the way to go. It will protect your plantings from frost, and wind, as well as keep the humidity up. If you are growing in raised beds, some clear plastic, a few lenghts of PVC, and a handful of screws is all you need. Just secure one end of the PVC to the face of your raised bed frame, then bend it over, and secure it to the other side of the raised bed frame. Then, cover it with plastic. A hoophouse! To secure the plastic to the hoophouse, one edge can be secured with a generous application of staples. For the other edge of the hoophouse, hammer some nails into the face of the bed frame, at about 2 foot intervals, get some plastic clips that have a nail hole on one end, and clip them to the plastic. Then just pull the plastic over the hoop frame, and hook the clips to the nails. When you want to temporarily uncover the hoophouse from your raised bed, just unhook the clips from the nails, and flip the plastic over. This is also a great way to protect vegetables like tomatos from getting too much water during a rainy spell. If you are growing in the ground, you can either pound some wooden stakes in the ground to attach the PVC, or you can get some short pieces of rebar to pound into the ground, and just slip the PVC over them. Healthy Nutrition Growing Herbs Recipes Herbs Recipes Winter gardening Seeds Artichokes Asparagus Beans Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cantaloupe Carrots Cauliflower Celery Corn Cucumbers Eggplant Garlic Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce Melons Okra Onions Peas Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Squash Sunflowers Tomatoes Watermelons : Pacific Northwest Gardening : Herbal Beers : Herbs and Natural Remedies : Eat Well To Be Well : Refelting Your Pool Table : Audio Bar and Grill : My Internet Business Strategy : : Healthy Recipe of the Week : My Web Gal :