This is one of the better cattle panel greenhouses I have seen, so my husband and I set to work. Thank for sharing your wonderful ideas and how-to instructions. We are almost done with ours. I cant wait to get it completed.
I have been watching every one of these cattle panel videos I can because I am planning on making one. I really like the ventilaton windows on the bottom corners and will be incorporating it in my build. Thank you
I love this. I will be making one this summer and I planned for eight feet wide. This gives me an idea. Yours is one of the best I have seen. I love the way you can vent the bottom.
Really interesting design. Gosh, you've been busy! OMG... and you know those Pink Brandywines are going to grow into a forest in there. Hope you have a bountiful harvest!
That looks like a great design for the cattle panel hoop house, I like the higher arch and wider stance. Keeping this idea in my mind when I build one. Could you please consider doing a follow up video on how it did this summer. Thank you for sharing.
I had the idea of elevating the panels the way you did but I did not think of the way to ventilate the hoop house as you did. Great idea. I like your use of the clear fiber glass panels. YOU mentioned you have rabbits which might want to dig under to get inside. If so, just bury some hardware cloth or sheet metal around all sides.
This is bigger than what I need, but I do like the overall design, too. I edpecially like the lower openings with mesh to prevent critters from coming in when open.
I built one of these last winter. It held up over 2 feet of snow and has survived multiple severe wind storms that knocked down trees. you will want to install an automatic vent and a small portable heater to regulate the temperature.
I love your setup! Would you kindly make a follow up video of your experience after the first year? In Canada we have limited options for hoop houses since metal hoop benders/wiggle wire are unavailable and are cost prohibitive to import. I may replicate this for my zone 3a tomato garden.
I just looked at about a dozen videos on this and yours wins first place...........Now I have to decide wheather to build this style or order a 16x40 from Growers Solution and spend $2000. Thanks for sharing........
Can I call you Greg, Hey I watch youtube on my roku, there is no way to 'look below' or 'leave a comment'. And until now, after years and thousands of videos, many about cattle panel greenhouses (CPG) You are top level and well done. Your passion and inventiveness is commendable. So many importand details. Andre Manzay put it best, "I am stealing your plans." Okay maybe not the best way of saying you are genious level. Brainstorming, you said, it is a tsunami. Love the attention to detail. I have a short attention span, to that was good. You packed a lot of stuff in that video...truly shows you put a lot of thought for a long while. Simply the best. Thank you for sharing because sharing is caring. I am looking forward to viewing the rest of your knowledge with us. One question, I am in Missouri, where abouts are you?
nice, just built mine. 1 thing, those windows on the ground are goona get pests to want to get in there, and for sure want vents up high too, to take the hot part of the greenhouse out... i like the sides though... nice sir
Awesome green house there's a video of a guy that put ropes on the outside to help keep plastic down on the outside when it storms between you an him I now have my plans thanks
Like it... I’ve just joined the club My hoop has three foot knee walls Thirty six feet long X ten wide Shopping for greenhouse plastic Framed ends with treated landscaping timbers as they were beefier than 2 X 4’s and cheaper. Hope to be able to run my tractor through with six ft openings each end. Using your neat corrugated clear plastic idea on the knee walls and your vent door’s Thanks
The only thing i would have changed on your design (because I live in FL) is to put a frame on the knee wall on the sides and hinge the sides too, because those ends just aren't enough in FL. Put screening on the inside so the bugs (and critters) don't get in.
This is awesome! Gave me so many ideas for my project! Quick question - is the ultraviolet plastic attached to the platform bass susceptible to critter entry? Trying to guard against hedgehogs etc hence the question. If not, then I am planning to use hardware mesh all along the periphery. Please let me know!
i have a hoop house almost exactly like this! I'm looking for advice as to whether to keep the plastic on during the summer. I use the hoop house to overwinter potted kitchen herbs, bulbs etc and am growing an experimental flat of greens. In the summer i don't really need the plastic and am thinking i can just take it off, since the plants do fine in their containers without protection, plus i've heard the sun shortens the life of the plastic and i'm not exactly flush and don't want to buy more plastic than necessary. I have googled everywhere and can't find anyone mentioning removing the plastic in the summer. Do you (or anyone) have any advice about that? Thanks very much in advance!
Can we get an update on how this cattle panel hoop house is holding up today? Anything you'd do differently? We're about to try and build one of these, so I'd love to hear any advice you may have. Thanks!
One of the Best and affordable Green houses I've seen...I have one 2 Questions? Tomatoes need lot's of Sun...the Plastic even though almost clear..does it allow enough sun that Tomatoes need? Or is it mostly light and Heat that Tomatoes need?
It does with mine... plus... long after my neighbors outdoor tomatoes were dead mine were still producing. If I would have bucked up with some heat after sunset we probably could have added at least another month.
You definitely want to look for deals on real, specific greenhouse plastic; it's a lot thicker/more durable and resists UV light for many years. The cheap thin stuff you get at Lowe's or whatever will turn brittle in the sun and start falling apart after only a season or two. Sidenote - it's kind of the same if you're looking for buckets/barrels to use for container gardening... the thin $5 buckets at HD/Lowe's etc will get brittle and fall apart in two years, but thicker food-grade ones last *several* years in the sun. I get used-once food-grade buckets for a $1 each from someone who gets truckloads of them from a cherry-processing plant. Sometimes you can get them free from restaurants, delis, etc. No brainer decision there. ;)
I have 1 4x16 and two of the smaller squares 5x16 panels. I'm going to use the two 5x16 panels and make a 10x10 hoophouse and raise it as well. How tall are your side, 2ft?
Yes me too. I have two greenhouses and life in Tn. I grow tomatoes and other summer crops in it in the summer and cool weather crops in the winter. My vents are up near the top and would have to be in the heat down here. But all goes well with the top vents.
High wind will pull some of the plastic film off the staples. So I started using thin strips of wood screwed in along the horizontal wooden rails, pinning down the film. No problems since then. And I just found out about "wigglewire" if you want to search for that online.
Greg, I've really been enjoying your videos for the past year or so. I see you use treated wood and other "processed" materials in your projects. I am personally torn on the use of treated wood or plastic or even metal. I would love to hear your reasoning for using these materials, as someone who has such respect for the natural processes of this universe. Sincerely, Logan
I use treated lumber because untreated rots so quickly. Especially in the south. I know it's not organic (organic farms can't use it for raised beds or livestock enclosures etc). If I were out west I would use redwood. I'm not terribly excited about it but I'm not terribly upset about it either. Pick your poison. Compared to vegetables grown who-knows-where with who-knows-what chemicals, it's gotta be better. Ugggg. I wish everything were easy and simple and safe. Bit driving to work is the greatest risk in my life. What do you think?
Treated wood is a troubling issue for sure. The new stuff is less harmful to the environment to manufacture and use, but it doesn't last nearly as long, and it's pretty dang expensive. I really think you'd be better off in the long run using concrete blocks or bricks for the raised base, especially if you can scavenge them. Or even just a two-foot run of.... more cattle panel around the bottom! Split one panel down the middle with a bolt cutter or angle grinder and you've got 32' x 2' of material to work with. Steel is the most-recycled material on the planet - more than 80% of it is recycled. I guarantee they are not mining new iron just to make cattle panels; that metal has probably been used and re-used a few times already. And being galvanized, the panels will most likely last longer than any of us will, so they won't just fall apart and/or end up in a dump in a few years. The new treated woods... you're going to be replacing them a LOT sooner than you might think. Petroleum based plastics... yeah, that's a hard one to get around. The best answer I can come up with is to re-use discarded/found materials whenever possible. Hopefully better bio-plastics will continue to be developed.
@@kimbieandi the only thing that might leach out of *concrete* blocks is lime. If you're using *cinder* blocks, they contain coal byproducts, which could be a concern.
*know your safety* Today I found out that you need the leather for knapping not only for dampening the force going into your leg but also for safety. *which I didn't know* Which is how I ended up driving a 1cm (0.5cm in width) piece of glass in my leg. I got really lucky and there was a couple passing by and the lady happened to be a doctor, so she ran back to the house, got some peroxide and bandages while the guy kept me up from getting unconscious (dunno why, but I almost did). Definitely not knapping until I get proper equipment (at least the thick leather).
can you please share where can I buy the cattle panels. I have checked with my local home improvement, but they do not have this type of quality cattle panels. Thanks
Yes none of these videos on UA-cam ever show them actually putting the plastic on it's always everything before and then after, an folding getting it tight people need to see that spread the word
Well , isn't this just ironic . You look just like our lineage of Pryors . Coincidence though because I'm the only Pryor in our lineage that farms . Where bouts you at ? We use the cattle panels for our greenhouses as well .. Cheapest ...
Dude. You video just saved me from making a massive mistake. I'm so glad I watched it!
What a great idea! Just what I was looking for! Gotta love a man who thinks outside the box! Thank you!!!!!
This is one of the better cattle panel greenhouses I have seen, so my husband and I set to work. Thank for sharing your wonderful ideas and how-to instructions. We are almost done with ours. I cant wait to get it completed.
Love it!!! Thanks for sharing!! Love the little doors!
by far the best cattle panel setup i have seen... well done my man well done
I have been watching every one of these cattle panel videos I can because I am planning on making one. I really like the ventilaton windows on the bottom corners and will be incorporating it in my build. Thank you
I love this. I will be making one this summer and I planned for eight feet wide. This gives me an idea. Yours is one of the best I have seen. I love the way you can vent the bottom.
That is perfect! Thanks for sharing !
Hell yeah Greg, nice job !!!
Thumbs up and saved to favourites love the little tips on vents etc cheers
That's what I'm looking for. Really nice I will build one, just like that. You really have a great ideas for this, thanks!
Looks perfect!
Really interesting design. Gosh, you've been busy! OMG... and you know those Pink Brandywines are going to grow into a forest in there. Hope you have a bountiful harvest!
Wicked smart idea for the venting !
That looks like a great design for the cattle panel hoop house, I like the higher arch and wider stance. Keeping this idea in my mind when I build one. Could you please consider doing a follow up video on how it did this summer. Thank you for sharing.
This is what I needed. Thank you!!
Very nice work!!
I had the idea of elevating the panels the way you did but I did not think of the way to ventilate the hoop house as you did. Great idea. I like your use of the clear fiber glass panels. YOU mentioned you have rabbits which might want to dig under to get inside. If so, just bury some hardware cloth or sheet metal around all sides.
I'll be making a hoop house in the spring. Thanks for the tips
I love the way you built this hoop house, I am stealing your plans.
Yup. I want mine taller tho
This is bigger than what I need, but I do like the overall design, too. I edpecially like the lower openings with mesh to prevent critters from coming in when open.
Great job!
Great Job!
Nice green house and good video.
OAG
I built one of these last winter. It held up over 2 feet of snow and has survived multiple severe wind storms that knocked down trees. you will want to install an automatic vent and a small portable heater to regulate the temperature.
I love your setup! Would you kindly make a follow up video of your experience after the first year? In Canada we have limited options for hoop houses since metal hoop benders/wiggle wire are unavailable and are cost prohibitive to import. I may replicate this for my zone 3a tomato garden.
I like it thanks for the video
Beautiful😍
Great detail
I just looked at about a dozen videos on this and yours wins first place...........Now I have to decide wheather to build this style or order a 16x40 from Growers Solution and spend $2000. Thanks for sharing........
Impressive
20 people should have just kept their damn opinions to themselves. This was a fine video. Nice work!
Can I call you Greg, Hey I watch youtube on my roku, there is no way to 'look below' or 'leave a comment'. And until now, after years and thousands of videos, many about cattle panel greenhouses (CPG) You are top level and well done. Your passion and inventiveness is commendable. So many importand details. Andre Manzay put it best, "I am stealing your plans." Okay maybe not the best way of saying you are genious level. Brainstorming, you said, it is a tsunami. Love the attention to detail. I have a short attention span, to that was good. You packed a lot of stuff in that video...truly shows you put a lot of thought for a long while. Simply the best. Thank you for sharing because sharing is caring. I am looking forward to viewing the rest of your knowledge with us. One question, I am in Missouri, where abouts are you?
nice, just built mine. 1 thing, those windows on the ground are goona get pests to want to get in there, and for sure want vents up high too, to take the hot part of the greenhouse out... i like the sides though... nice sir
Awesome green house there's a video of a guy that put ropes on the outside to help keep plastic down on the outside when it storms between you an him I now have my plans thanks
I like the wind straps...a MUST where I live. It can be can purchased in a roll.
It seems to me that you need your vents up near the top. How did the growing and venting turn out !!!!
I like your greenhouse and the size, but what was the size of the poly you got to cover that size house. Thx
Like it...
I’ve just joined the club
My hoop has three foot knee walls
Thirty six feet long X ten wide
Shopping for greenhouse plastic
Framed ends with treated landscaping timbers as they were beefier than 2 X 4’s and cheaper.
Hope to be able to run my tractor through with six ft openings each end.
Using your neat corrugated clear plastic idea on the knee walls and your vent door’s
Thanks
The only thing i would have changed on your design (because I live in FL) is to put a frame on the knee wall on the sides and hinge the sides too, because those ends just aren't enough in FL. Put screening on the inside so the bugs (and critters) don't get in.
This is awesome! Gave me so many ideas for my project! Quick question - is the ultraviolet plastic attached to the platform bass susceptible to critter entry? Trying to guard against hedgehogs etc hence the question. If not, then I am planning to use hardware mesh all along the periphery. Please let me know!
What do you do with the bottom of the hoop house, does it let in cold air, how does the corrugated plastic insulate?
i have a hoop house almost exactly like this! I'm looking for advice as to whether to keep the plastic on during the summer. I use the hoop house to overwinter potted kitchen herbs, bulbs etc and am growing an experimental flat of greens. In the summer i don't really need the plastic and am thinking i can just take it off, since the plants do fine in their containers without protection, plus i've heard the sun shortens the life of the plastic and i'm not exactly flush and don't want to buy more plastic than necessary.
I have googled everywhere and can't find anyone mentioning removing the plastic in the summer. Do you (or anyone) have any advice about that? Thanks very much in advance!
Nice construction. How did it like the storm?
Greenhouse enthusiast from Norway.
Can we get an update on how this cattle panel hoop house is holding up today? Anything you'd do differently? We're about to try and build one of these, so I'd love to hear any advice you may have. Thanks!
One of the Best and affordable Green houses I've seen...I have one 2 Questions? Tomatoes need lot's of Sun...the Plastic even though almost clear..does it allow enough sun that Tomatoes need? Or is it mostly light and Heat that Tomatoes need?
It does with mine... plus... long after my neighbors outdoor tomatoes were dead mine were still producing. If I would have bucked up with some heat after sunset we probably could have added at least another month.
Don't use pressure treated lumber in contact with your garden soil, it leaches toxic chemicals into your garden
Any updates? Hows the greenhouse doing so far?
Awesome! I'm going to build one because now I can afford this kind of greenhouse. Is that a special kind of plastic covering made for green houses?
You definitely want to look for deals on real, specific greenhouse plastic; it's a lot thicker/more durable and resists UV light for many years. The cheap thin stuff you get at Lowe's or whatever will turn brittle in the sun and start falling apart after only a season or two.
Sidenote - it's kind of the same if you're looking for buckets/barrels to use for container gardening... the thin $5 buckets at HD/Lowe's etc will get brittle and fall apart in two years, but thicker food-grade ones last *several* years in the sun. I get used-once food-grade buckets for a $1 each from someone who gets truckloads of them from a cherry-processing plant. Sometimes you can get them free from restaurants, delis, etc. No brainer decision there. ;)
Can you please share a product list..thanks
what zone and what weight per plant did you get please?
I have 1 4x16 and two of the smaller squares 5x16 panels. I'm going to use the two 5x16 panels and make a 10x10 hoophouse and raise it as well. How tall are your side, 2ft?
Have you done and update video for this greenhouse? I am curious how those low vents are holding up, etc.
Yes me too. I have two greenhouses and life in Tn. I grow tomatoes and other summer crops in it in the summer and cool weather crops in the winter. My vents are up near the top and would have to be in the heat down here. But all goes well with the top vents.
Thank you for sharing. How did you attach the plastic?
Staple it to the deck boards running horizontally
Nice, I've been thinking of building one, but! I need to know how it handles wind. So, how does it handle wind?
High wind will pull some of the plastic film off the staples. So I started using thin strips of wood screwed in along the horizontal wooden rails, pinning down the film. No problems since then. And I just found out about "wigglewire" if you want to search for that online.
How many feet are the four by fours in the ground is it 2 ft?
So how did your tomatoes turn out? Home much earlier were you able to harvest them?
im too interested
perhaps the best results are found after a couple of years though
Great video, also going to 'steal' a few of your ideas... where are you that you need a perimeter fence with barbed wire?
Hey, yeah, I noticed that fence also. I'd like to know the answer. Seem like Greg thinks a lot different than the rest of us.
Yikes....looks like a prison perimeter
Greg, I've really been enjoying your videos for the past year or so. I see you use treated wood and other "processed" materials in your projects. I am personally torn on the use of treated wood or plastic or even metal. I would love to hear your reasoning for using these materials, as someone who has such respect for the natural processes of this universe.
Sincerely,
Logan
I use treated lumber because untreated rots so quickly. Especially in the south. I know it's not organic (organic farms can't use it for raised beds or livestock enclosures etc). If I were out west I would use redwood. I'm not terribly excited about it but I'm not terribly upset about it either. Pick your poison. Compared to vegetables grown who-knows-where with who-knows-what chemicals, it's gotta be better. Ugggg. I wish everything were easy and simple and safe. Bit driving to work is the greatest risk in my life. What do you think?
Treated wood is a troubling issue for sure. The new stuff is less harmful to the environment to manufacture and use, but it doesn't last nearly as long, and it's pretty dang expensive. I really think you'd be better off in the long run using concrete blocks or bricks for the raised base, especially if you can scavenge them. Or even just a two-foot run of.... more cattle panel around the bottom! Split one panel down the middle with a bolt cutter or angle grinder and you've got 32' x 2' of material to work with.
Steel is the most-recycled material on the planet - more than 80% of it is recycled. I guarantee they are not mining new iron just to make cattle panels; that metal has probably been used and re-used a few times already. And being galvanized, the panels will most likely last longer than any of us will, so they won't just fall apart and/or end up in a dump in a few years. The new treated woods... you're going to be replacing them a LOT sooner than you might think.
Petroleum based plastics... yeah, that's a hard one to get around. The best answer I can come up with is to re-use discarded/found materials whenever possible. Hopefully better bio-plastics will continue to be developed.
@@gregpryorhomestead I agree with you 100%
@@dystopiagear6999 how do you know concrete blocks are safe? What about the chemicals in those?
@@kimbieandi the only thing that might leach out of *concrete* blocks is lime. If you're using *cinder* blocks, they contain coal byproducts, which could be a concern.
Hi just found your video its great ! Can you please tell how tall are your post above the ground?
i was wondering the same.
Perfect. What was your cost?
Less than $500 here in the southeast USA
*know your safety*
Today I found out that you need the leather for knapping not only for dampening the force going into your leg but also for safety.
*which I didn't know*
Which is how I ended up driving a 1cm (0.5cm in width) piece of glass in my leg. I got really lucky and there was a couple passing by and the lady happened to be a doctor, so she ran back to the house, got some peroxide and bandages while the guy kept me up from getting unconscious (dunno why, but I almost did).
Definitely not knapping until I get proper equipment (at least the thick leather).
Btw, sorry if that's a bit grim, my intention wasn't to get anyone in a bad mood, but to share an already well known lesson.
can you please share where can I buy the cattle panels. I have checked with my local home improvement, but they do not have this type of quality cattle panels. Thanks
tractor supply co
Would you share how you put your plastic on from the ground up. Thank you
Yes none of these videos on UA-cam ever show them actually putting the plastic on it's always everything before and then after, an folding getting it tight people need to see that spread the word
How did you attach the plastic covering?
looks like tape
what are the dimensions of this greenhouse?
what are the dimensions width and length
He said 12x16, I believe... but it’s in the video
Well , isn't this just ironic .
You look just like our lineage of Pryors .
Coincidence though because I'm the only Pryor in our lineage that farms .
Where bouts you at ?
We use the cattle panels for our greenhouses as well .. Cheapest ...
What year were you born in
I think the man has and old soul. I mean that in a good way.
Or you could just use 20' hog panels and save yourself a ton of work and expence.