The Best Easy RETRACTABLE HOOP HOUSE On The Internet
Вставка
- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- This video will show you how to build the best easy retractable hoop house on the internet! This retractable hoophouse design is easy, cheap, durable, and you can do it yourself with simple tools. This design can protect your garden from frost, freezes, pests, harsh sunlight and more!
I installed this retractable greenhouse on top of my raised beds as the greenhouse design is perfect for raised bed gardening. However, you can use the same design for an earth bed. To install this retractable hoophouse on an earth bed, simply pound 3/8" rebar stakes into the ground, leave 6-12 inches of rebar sticking up from the ground, slide the PVC conduit over the rebar, and bend the conduit to make the support hoops!
I am using this retractable design as a replacement to my hinged hoophouse, because it is cheaper to build and more versatile for year round gardening. However, if you'd like a DIY hoophouse that is hinged, watch the original hinged hoop house DIY installation video here: • How To Build A Smart H...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why I'm Converting My Raised Bed To A Hoop House
0:57 Materials List To Build A Retractable Hoophouse
1:20 Installing PVC Support Hoops For The End Walls
4:46 Attaching Agricultural Fabric To The End Walls
6:35 Building The Main PVC Support Hoops
9:12 Building The Center PVC Support Hoop
10:23 Installing The Purlins (Cross Supports)
14:25 Building The Retraction Mechanisms
15:49 Installing The Greenhouse Cover
18:20 Final Hoop House Garden Results And Demonstration
20:17 Customize This DIY Hoop House For Your Garden
21:12 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to build a hoop house for a raised bed garden, have questions about this raised bed hoop house installation, want to know about the things I grow in my garden, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
**************************************************
VISIT MY AMAZON STOREFRONT FOR PRODUCTS I USE MOST OFTEN IN MY GARDEN*
www.amazon.com/shop/themillen...
**************************************************
VISIT MY MERCHANDISE STORE
shop.spreadshirt.com/themille...
**************************************************
SUPPORT MY SECOND CHANNEL!
/ 2minutegardentips
**************************************************
EQUIPMENT I MOST OFTEN USE IN MY GARDEN (INDIVIDUAL LINKS)*:
Miracle-Gro Soluble All Purpose Plant Food amzn.to/3qNPkXk
Miracle-Gro Soluble Bloom Booster Plant Food amzn.to/2GKYG0j
Miracle-Gro Soluble Tomato Plant Food amzn.to/2GDgJ8n
Jack's Fertilizer, 20-20-20, 25 lb. amzn.to/3CW6xCK
Southern Ag Liquid Copper Fungicide amzn.to/2HTCKRd
Southern Ag Natural Pyrethrin Concentrate amzn.to/2UHSNGE
Monterey Organic Spinosad Concentrate amzn.to/3qOU8f5
Safer Brand Caterpillar Killer (BT Concentrate) amzn.to/2SMXL8D
Cordless ULV Fogger Machine amzn.to/36e96Sl
Weed Barrier with UV Resistance amzn.to/3yp3MaJ
Organza Bags (Fig-size) amzn.to/3AyaMUz
Organza Bags (Tomato-size) amzn.to/36fy4Re
Injection Molded Nursery Pots amzn.to/3AucVAB
Heavy Duty Plant Grow Bags amzn.to/2UqvsgC
6.5 Inch Hand Pruner Pruning Shears amzn.to/3jHI1yL
Japanese Pruning Saw with Blade amzn.to/3wjpw6o
Double Tomato Hooks with Twine amzn.to/3Awptr9
String Trellis Tomato Support Clips amzn.to/3wiBjlB
Nylon Mason Line, 500FT amzn.to/3wd9cEo
Expandable Vinyl Garden Tape amzn.to/3jL7JCI
**************************************************
SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow Me on TWITTER (@NCGardening) / ncgardening
Follow Me on INSTAGRAM / millennialgardener_nc
**************************************************
ABOUT MY GARDEN
Location: Southeastern NC, Brunswick County (Wilmington area)
34.1°N Latitude
Zone 8A
**************************************************
*As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
© The Millennial Gardener
#gardening #diy #greenhouse #hoophouse #viral #video
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Why I'm Converting My Raised Bed To A Hoop House
0:57 Materials List To Build A Retractable Hoophouse
1:20 Installing PVC Support Hoops For The End Walls
4:46 Attaching Agricultural Fabric To The End Walls
6:35 Building The Main PVC Support Hoops
9:12 Building The Center PVC Support Hoop
10:23 Installing The Purlins (Cross Supports)
14:25 Building The Retraction Mechanisms
15:49 Installing The Greenhouse Cover
18:20 Final Hoop House Garden Results And Demonstration
20:17 Customize This DIY Hoop House For Your Garden
21:12 Adventures With Dale
Is there anyway to adapt if you have metal raised beds?
Dale wasn't incriminating himself. LOL!!! Loved this video
You are an amazing speaker! No hums, umms, or hesitations! Everything is presented so clearly! Love your channel. Thanks for all the good info!
The magic of editing 😊 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheMillennialGardener some of them are so bad no amount of editing would make it smooth.
@@TheMillennialGardener You’re good at this!
@@vonries tripods and checking footage is everything. It takes a lot of time and effort, but it’s worth it.
@@zooksgardennook-gardeningi6740 thank you. It has taken awhile to figure out a system and get good-ish at it.
People like you are the reason i love you tube to learn things that make my life easier
If you think this is good you should check out the videos that he copies.
This is by far the best raised bet cover I have seen. Thanks for making this video.
I so appreciate your accuracy and attention to detail ! I'm71 and think even I can do this !
Clever low cost idea
I am building one of these this week to get an early start on tomatoes and peppers!
I would definitely install a top frame to build this on with a hinge to have easy access.
I built one of these last spring. It has lasted through ridiculous (Texas) heat, strong rain storms and has done a great job at protecting my lettuce bed. I am making them for the other beds as soon as it warms up.
This is so clever. Thank you for this idea.
Excellent presentation! All info needed, clearly explained & shown. Thank you.
You’re welcome! This was a beast to shoot all those angles 😆
you flipping rock dude. serious. thank you sooo much for sharing because you didnt have to awesome for this old woman that needs to be able to make this with no help♥️
This channel is amazing.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Genius, I love it!
This is my new favorite video. 🤩
I’m glad you enjoyed it 😃 Thanks for watching!
This is really the best method over the Internet! Thank you from an Aussie!
Absolutely great idea and thorough explanation of all the steps. Plus easy enough to swap out different coverings depending on season. I'm making for all my raised beds. Thank you
This is a fantastic idea! Your explanation, steps, and presentation are spot on.
Very good job!
What a Great idea! Thank you for sharing this. It is so versatile. WOW! I will definitely use this in my garden.
You’re welcome! This really turned out well. I really think this is suitable for 365 days a year. Frost, bug, and sun protection.
Very nice, holler at me when you're bored we need a dozen 5x10s.
I need about 4-5 more myself 😆
Great design will be building this.
Glad you enjoyed it! It was tough to film, but it was worth it.
It's all a setup!!! The destroyed wrapping paper perpetrators are long gone and Dale alone has taken the fall! #FreeDale
Thanks for showing the plastic vs. the agricultural fabric as covers 💚💚
It's always a conspiracy! They're out to get him 😂 Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you.. I was going to buy a green house with netting on Amazon.. I would rather do your project instead.. Thank you so much ⚘️I have subscribed and thumb up to all your advice...
You're welcome! I appreciate you subscribing.
I see this video was post a year ago. How is it holding up? Love the design. Thinking about doing this, but using metal conduit. Where I live, it's cheaper to use metal, than that pvc... don't understand why. I was thinking about doing it hinged, but then I ran across your video, talk about instant change of plans! Good job on the video.
Great video! Thank you for posting! Blessings, health, prosperity and peace to you and yours and to all who read this! 😘👍😇💖
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Thank you
You're welcome!
Love this one, I was hesitant on the other one, this looks like something I can add to my beds. I am a big fan of row covers and use them. This will really help me with my tomatoes, again thank you so much.
Fantastic idea. Easy to understand explanation. Thanks for sharing it with your viewers. Will definitely be using this idea in my garden.
Outstanding! Glad to hear you liked it!
WHOA!!! That is the best design for a hoop house, very impressive. Thank you for thinking this through and sharing your ideas
You’re welcome! I still use it. It works great.
Good design I like it a lot thanks for sharing God bless you and yours.
Excellent design!
Thank you!
Dude! What a great invention! Plus I'm liking the versatility of the agricultural cloth vs the plastic. I built my first raised bed couple years ago, 3'x3'x12'. Before I filled the box with soil, I cut 8 pc of 2" conduit (f/ReStore) 3 feet long each. I stood them up inside the box, one per corner + 2 spaced evenly along the length, both sides, where my vertical supports were (walls are made of corrugated metal, supported by 2x4s). I back-filled the soil against them. The walls of my box + the soil hold them in place, so no need for straps or screws, I hope. Piggy-backing on your design, I will insert 1/2" conduit into my vertical 2" pieces, then proceed w/your slide-n-glide idea. I had assumed I was gonna be constantly removing and re-installing the cloth. The ends of the side-to-side bent 1/2" conduit won't be permanently attached to the raised bed box. That may be a bad thing or maybe it'll prove to have some advantage?? I'll make those 1/2" curvy pieces extra long so I can stick each end all the way to the interior bottom of each vertical 3'x2" piece, thus distributing the stress down the whole depth of the box. Really appreciate your channel. This old lady is learning a lot from you, young man. Thx to you, I'm gonna try garlic this winter and cukes and determinate tomatoes next year.🤞
Fantastic ❤ easy to follow video and design ! God bless you !
Built a 30 foot long continuous hoop house with this great design. Working on the ground, I used 1' long 1/2" rebar I enameled and drove 8" into the ground as anchors for the purlins - inspired by your shade house hoops. Thanks for the great DIY designs and inspiration!
Ingenious! Love it!!!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
well that couldn't have been clearer. One of the best explanations of anything on UA-cam. thanks!
Thank you! I appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed it!
Very clever! Love the design AND the presentation. Can't wait to try it.
Good thinking. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Super! Good vid with clear instructions, a parts list, and a very useful idea. Thanks
So smart design! Retractable hoop is so amazing.
Thanks!
Another very practical and useful system for almost year-round gardening. BTW, not sure if you used galvanized clamps and screws, if not you could have used decking screws which are cheaper and long-lasting without rusting out in a year's time. You were not kidding when you mentioned the viewership just falls off the cliff off the growing season. Anyway, I really enjoy and have learnt from your content. Rama, NC
I purchased zinc plated screws for cost savings reasons. They should last quite awhile. Several years. If I have to replace a few every now and again it won’t kill me.
@@TheMillennialGardener Your screws are unlikely to rust out, since they're on the outside of the beds. I installed PVC conduit sockets for trellises in raised beds years ago, and I put them on the inside before filling the beds with soil. After 25 years the 2x8s decayed enough that I tore them down but was surprised that only a few of the screws were severely rusted. The screws were just standard plated #10 screws.
This is a great design I might try for my winter raised garden bed down here in NE Texas but with a plastic sheeting to protect when we get into the mid and lower 20s. I’ll see how to adapt this to my bed design. The 3 lateral struts you have a great for adding stability and structure to the whole thing. I like the clamping of the larger pvc tubing over the smaller to keep the sheeting in place. Great idea!
Great detailed instructions. Thank you 😊
Great design. I hate SQUASH bugs so bad that I will consider doing this for my squash and hand pollinate every morning and evening!
Really love this idea! Great video!
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching.
Always good ideas. Thanks for the inspiration.
I like your retractable idea. I think I'd set it up on the inside of the frame and be prepared to put a plasric, same system on the out side of the frame, when the time comes in winter. thankn you.
Excellent. Thank you so much for this amazing idea
You are the best. Learn so much from yr video. I love kales. Red russian my fav. Thought of Dale every times I eat them. Love yall both
Nice design and well explained. Thank you 😊
Thank you!
May I suggest some emphasis on the precision Japanese woodworking razor saw that you cut your PVC with? They are super sharp, super thin and easy to cut with and generally unknown of in the U.S. Again, kudos and props on your design and execution.
The saws are great. I made a video on it here to try and highlight it: ua-cam.com/video/jWn00rnZq1o/v-deo.html
Glad you liked the design!
What I would expect from an engineer-precision!
Very clever hoop house!
Thank you for sharing.
I really appreciate this information!! Thank you!!!
An amazing job 💯. Thanks 👍
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Your neighborhood looks like a nicer neighborhood and usually they spray their house and yard for insects... which means the moment you don’t spray your garden, you get a concentration of insect pressure since they can’t eat or live in the neighborhood yards that spray
Excellent design and tutorial! This puts my hoops made of bamboo and poly tubing to shame lol
It’s much better than my original hoop house design. Every build teaches you ways to improve it further. Thanks for watching!
Thank you!!!! The only thing that would make this any easier would be for you to come to Wilmington nc and build it for me Lolol. But for real thank you for all of your info!!! ❤
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy watching and listening to your tips and lessons for gardening.
Genius design! Thank you for sharing
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
A PVC pipe the length of your bed is a lot less effort. You just roll the side up and prop it on two fence posts like a spit. It allows you to open the entire thing up, as well as store it on a roll in the fall. It also makes it super easy to swap between row cover, netting and shade cloth and plastic. Just swap the pre rolled pipe.
Excellent, thank you.
Love the retractable feature. I'm going to try this as I really want to use the frost fabric in winter and then switch it out to bug netting in spring - keep those white moths and squash bugs outta my life, lol.
Thanks! I will say this: the fabric is only good to protect against frost, not freeze. It'll keep your tender annuals alive the first few frosts that happen in the 33-36F degree range, but as soon as it drops below 32F, it'll freeze through. It bought me about 2 weeks extra, but once we hit 28F as our "first freeze," everything was totally cooked. Don't expect huge gains in the cold season with this design. However, it will protect your plants all spring and summer long from pests and sunburn. That's why I love this design. Warm weather crops won't ripen in my climate anyway, so it's pointless to try and limp tomatoes along in January. However, this will give me an enormous advantage in the summer, because I lose so much of my crop to pest damage and the sun just destroys everything.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes! I don't really expect lettuce or tomatoes to grow Jan-Mar here but definitely the brassicas (very important to me) should do okay. I watch some UA-cam homesteaders in the Asheville area and they are using Agribon-50. Much milder climate and hardly any snow here in the Piedmont so I'm ordering Agri-30. Are you going to use the fabric in the summer? Won't that cut out essential UV's for fruiting?
Everything exquisitely done.
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.
Perfect 👀👍♥️🍀🍀🍀thanks 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Great idea and execution. You’re a thinker like me! Love it!
Thank you!
Very clever!!! I'm going to give this a try. I've been looking for a hoop covering and this is by far the best I've seen. Thank you for sharing this idea.
Nice! I will be making these!
you are genius
Well done fab! Excellent presentation, your a pro - I will be trying this in Scotland
Love it!! Thank you for the idea!!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow! Really good design and simple construction. An elegant result.
Thank you! I’m excited to see how it performs year-round, especially during summer.
Great job/design
Amazing design. Well thought-out. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!
Very well done
Thank you!
Excellent! Your design is very technical and practical.
Thanks! I appreciate you watching.
Genius
Well done!!!!! Thank you for sharing with us!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I live in Florida. I love their versatility of your ingenious design. Not sure I need the retractable but since I plant at the beginning of January on N. Hutchinson Island, after about the 2nd or third week we almost never have thirties and forties by the end of January,.
However, I grow my tomatoes (mostly cherry types, 6-7ft tall (tall and narrow has really been the very best way to go here with terrific yields, I wonder whether a higher hoop house will work. I plan on 3-4ft wide by 10-12 ft long raised beds. Because I am old my raised bed is going to be at least a foot high. I am going to build new beds this fall.
Look forward to hearing from you. Excellent presentation.
If you don't see yourself moving the sides up and down a lot, you can just build three individual hoops and clamp on the covers when needed. It only takes 2-3 minutes to throw a cover over it and clamp it in 6 spots. And it takes less than 1 minute to remove. It's worth your time, because come spring you can outfit it with insect netting, and come summer you can use shade cloth. It will be useful 365 days a year for you. I'm slowly retrofitting all my raised beds with hoops, because I find them even more useful for protection during summer.
For height, you can piece together PVC conduits as necessary to extend them, but at some point they'll become more topheavy and may need purlins on the side to stabilize. When you piece PVC together, make SURE to use PVC glue so the connections hold. Otherwise, they'll come undone eventually as the wind shakes them around.
A very clever design and easy to follow instruction!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
Genius!!!! Great job.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this amazing idea. I appreciate your explanation of every detail and why you're doing what you're doing. Very clear presentation.
You're welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Very good idea and like the clean presentation:) Loads of fun
Brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing this idea. I will be making so too x.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching.
That is brilliant, I may make on of these for shading part of my garden !!
Thank you! Definitely give it a shot. It is a fun build.
What an awesome idea!! Thanks for the good tips!
You’re welcome!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I really appreciate it ❤
I like it. I'm going to revisit this in the spring. I need shade cloth over my peppers.
Thanks! If it isn't too cold yet, I'd actually recommend building the structure now while it's comfortable outside. I try to get my building projects done during this time of year, because it can get too hot in the spring and summer for building projects. You can simply build the hoops now, then cover it when the time comes.
This is great! Gonna use this design for my raised bed.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. Quite a versatile design.
Thank you! Versatility is why I moved away from the (much more expensive) greenhouse film. While the greenhouse film may be a little more advantageous in January, the fabric vents better all year, and can triple as both an insect guard in the summer, and provide shade when our sun is scorching in July and August. This will also help me set more tomatoes, since our summers are too hot to set tomatoes in July and August.
Yes I know I live in north texas
this year, i used big clamps to hold the fabric clamped to the tubes, whether up or down.
I made something very similar but couldnt figure out how to hold up sides while i was in there. Thank you. I can add that and still dont have to purchase anything. Already have all the parts. Thanks again.
Glad I could be helpful. The best part of this is that all parts are readily available and cheap. Nothing special.
Extreemly clever.
Thank you!
I love this! Can’t wait to try it.
I do have one question (and I apologize if this has already been asked)… Why did you use a different fabric for the ends than you did for the retractable part? Or are they just slightly different weights of the same material?
Very helpful video. Perhaps a few too many We’re going to’s, but I’m encouraged to build one.
Very informative build! I will definitely be building some myself. (And Dale is not sorry about the wrapping paper 😂)
Great video, thanks a bunch!
You're welcome!
Excellent step by step.
Thank you!
Great job, thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
The best idea around. Awesome man
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.