Cheap and Easy Hoop House Gardening

Hi, I'm behind the camera today

We are putting in row covers, a hoop cover for our garden for the winter

We just wanted to do it a cheap way. And so we wanted to share this with you because this is a really cheap way to do it

And everything's reusable. You can redo it next year. You can move it to a different area of your garden, whatever you want to do

He is putting down half inch, 18 inch, rebar. Our bed is eight feet long and four feet wide

And so we put two on the ends and then went in two and a half feet from each end and put another one

And of course I say we loosely. But so that gives us a pretty good base to put the plastic over

he got some furrings down here that we put on the side we take pictures and more videos as we go along it really fast to do um we just started and he already got two of the hoops in there

We're by doing this, we don't get a lot of extended cold weather, but by doing this we can prolong the life of the garden and it lowers it by a whole gardening zone

for every layer of covered that you put on your garden or in your greenhouse you lower by a garden zone and so um you're supposed to put um one layer if you put two then leave um no more than a three eighths gap between those uh too much more than that and you can have freezing uh less than that you won't have enough airspace but we don't get cold enough here to do that so we're

We're just going to lower our garden zone by one by putting on these row covers

And I mean, he's already got three done. And I like doing this video because he's doing it and I'm watching

So I not actually having to do any of the work But we take pictures and another video as we go along and we just wanted to share with you what we doing And this is October 31st so we won have a frost for a couple more weeks but we just wanted to go ahead

What you see growing there is that bell pepper that is just still really producing

So we're actually going to just top her out and leave her in there and see how long she'll go

You see spinach and broccoli and cauliflower and mustards, the pumpkin's still growing, okra's still growing

So we got to still have a lot going on in the garden. There's our English peas over there

So we are, I guess I better get to work now. See you next time

Okay, so this is our container gardens that I have my carrots and some mustards, some radishes

a couple of turnip greens just because I wanted to see how they do in there. And then this right one here hasn't been planted

But we went every two and a half feet. It was almost 10 feet long

The square that we wanted to be around this. So we put rebar in the ground

And now we getting ready to do our PVC pipe That is 40 What is that called Spec 40 Schedule 40 Schedule 40 PVC half inch Yep

Um, eight feet long? Or 10 feet? Pardon me? 10 feet long. Okay

And then you see our fur rings that we did there. And so that's what we're getting ready to do here to the cover up our container garden section

And we'll give up, when we're done, we'll give a full price breakdown just, you know, so we'll know that we're done and everything will be included in that for you