Garden update and Hoop House Pictures

Here are some pictures of my hoop house. The plants are growing like weeds. The peas are over 4 foot tall and flowering.

peas, lettuce and carrots

I am thinning the carrots and they are looking like tiny carrots too cool. We are eating the lettuce. I have two types: leaf and romaine.
The cabbages and onions are growing quickly also.

Cabbage and onions

The first picture up is when my girlfreind and I put the plastic on it. It was too short for the sides. The mistake I made was I bought 10 foot long pvc. and put them together. In hindsight I should have cut a foot off of each pole. It would have been shorter but then the plastic on the sides would have been right.

Plastic is ready

I had to add 1 x 10′s covered in plastic on the bottom of the sides. That gave me a place to anchor the plastic to. I did that with 1 x 4′s with Truck Cap stripping. I screwed them to the 1 x 10′s. It was a pain on the wall side. The solution was to cut a couple of boards and using them to hold up the 1 x 4 to the right height on the 1 x 10.

1 x 10 side border

On the inside I attached a few of the pvc to the 1 x 10 with pvc straps. I’ll have to take a picture of them. Probably should do them all.

plastic all the way except the door

I saw a movie this weekend called “Our Idiot Brother” the idiot brother lived on an organic farm and went back there after a stint in jail. The green house had solid sides built from house siding. When I tear the plastic off for the summer my plan it to rebuild it with house siding sides. It will be very cool.
Eventually I put plastic on the door. I ran a heavy duty extension cord out there and added a heater and keep the Christmas lights from last year.

Door with plastic

I added a fence pole and wired a hose holder onto it. Now I don’t step on it when I go into the house.

Hose holder

One day in Arkansas I hope to build a permanent green house attached to the house. One day …

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