Dear Colleagues We are considering installing a high hoop house (approx 12' wide, 7' tall, 90' long) for raising bedding plants, lettuce, and tomatoes. We typically have a very short season although this fall was extraordinarily generous with its frost free days.
Our garden has $650 left at the end of the season. Unheard of. We are always broke at the end of the season. So a hoop house is highest on the list of how to invest that money in future operations. We spend about $3,000 raising bedding plants at a commercial greenhouse each year, so reducing that cost could pay for the hoop house (as soon as we master the greenhouse operations - we can't pretend to know this piece of it yet). I've looked up the cost of parts in catalogs and on line and have a basic idea of the cost, which exceeds this small budget, but I'm not sure if a clever and frugal group of gardeners has come up with a good hoop house for less. The house must shed snow, of course, so I'm especially interested in the experiences of gardeners from northern latitudes who must also deal with a lot of winter snow. Thanks for your input!! Jama Crawford Shared Harvest Community Garden Durango, CO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20111023/42b7d292/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
