In this video, I show you how to build a modular greenhouse that can be placed over your raised garden beds for year round gardening! This easy, cheap DIY greenhouse design can be moved anywhere your plants are, whether they’re in a raised bed garden or somewhere else in your yard.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How To Build A Greenhouse Frame That’s Modular
0:52 Reasons To Build A Greenhouse Cover
1:42 Materials List
2:10 Building A Greenhouse Frame
4:36 Mounting The Hoophouse Frame
7:10 Installing The Greenhouse Cover
10:49 Why I Chose A Modular Hoop House Design
12:04 Securing The Greenhouse In Wind
14:22 Adventures With Dale
If you have questions about how to build a hoop house for a raised bed garden, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, 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!
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22 Comments
Great idea. My beds are different sizes so I made row covers out of 17" garden stakes, sold to make tomato cages, and 1/2 inch drip irrigation tubing. Drive the stakes in the ground, cut tubing to length, bend and put over stakes. Works great for bird netting too. Not modular but I made 20 hoops for under $40. Use stainless steel clamps sold on Amazon to hold in place.
I really like this. I also like how you went through all the steps. I think I could make this.👍🤗 Thank you ☺️ Blessings to you and your family 💕🙏🤗🐕🐾
Thanks for sharing! Is your corn bed also 4×10? If yess, how many corn plants can you feet in that bed? Hope you Have a wonderful evening.
That's great for lettuces and carrots but what do you do when building / moving the covers to access cucumber and tomato vines, etc. which get tall?
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Jk jk thanks for the info, I’m planing and building handicapped so this helped out a lot for my garden, thank you
Nice build! Any builds for container grown vegetables, like for brassicas?
Awesome thank you for making this video
My raised bed is 4×8. Can I use the same cutting pattern on mine?
Thanks for another great video!
Been wanting to do this for years but with conduit. Just in time for my fall crop…
Fantastic! I'm in Colorado and did winter gardening this past winter with pvc hoops and 2 layers of 6 mil plastic, but I held the sides down with bricks and it was just messy when I had to water, harvest, vent, add fabric when the temp dropped real low. I've been wanting a frame structure that I can lift up, move around, easily vent, but couldn't figure out how to do it. My raised beds are pretty tall (for our old backs), so I will make them to fit inside the beds. I will make them not as long as I did last winter (10 feet) because that was just a little too hard for me to manage, although this frame seems simpler than 10 feet of plastic that I had to roll up and down and hold in place with bricks. In fact, I might make several smaller ones to fit over the fall/winter starts that I've already planted. Does that make sense to you?We have crazy Colorado winds, so I really like your idea of using garden stakes to fit over the bottom of the frame structure and anchor them to the soil. Oh, I also used plastic jugs of water and 1 string of Christmas lights when it got real cold. I think this should work in the frame structure as I can run the lights under the frame to get to the outdoor plugs.
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I realize I may not get an answer because this video is an older one, but worth a shot! First, THANK YOU for this how to. Second, I just built this hoop house and I left the hoops at 10’ sections. I have a bit of an annoyance and yours isn’t doing this so maybe I did something wrong. Mine are 8×4’. On the 8’ section, the middles of the base are bowing from the pressure of the middle hoop. What did I do wrong? I have two 5 gallon buckets filled with soil pushed up against the two sides where it’s bowing to hopefully straighten it out. Any suggestions? Thanks again!
I loved it! However, for me, the challenge is that my raised beds are waist high and in various shapes and sizes. I have the Vego beds. They do make covers for them but they are too expensive. But I do love the designs and the reasons behind your creation.
Year around gardening? Try that in Minnesota!
What are row covers
this is so nice! I think I can build this myself! …
Upon constructing a modular greenhouse using this guidance, I must make a couple notes to future builders: You also actually need 8 pieces of PVC – the additional piece is for the center support for the hoops (this piece is not accounted for in the parts list). Also, if you don't need to extend the long sides as depicted in this video, DON'T (especially if you are using brand-new PVC pipes) because the tension of the center hoop makes the long edges bow at the Tee fitting and the center hoop sits lower than the end hoops, resulting in the overall frame not being true. In this video, pre-used PVC is employed in the build, so it already bows as needed and doesn't interfere with the ends. I'm going back to get 3 more PVC pipes for the center support as well as to redo the long ends, and I'm going to get another couple 3/4"x3/4"x1/2" Tee fittings for the center hoop to make it more stable. But overall, great idea.
What type of ground cover do you use and where can I get it? It looks a lot like a weed fabric, but most are not sustainable to walk on without ripping? It looks like holds up to high traffic.
I seen people make their own snap clamps, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPd5Nk9M_OM, but I might just buy them too.
what would you suggest to keep it from being blown away?
Great channel man! Subbed
Pro tip… use stainless screws, so they don't rust away the first season.