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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> 
> Please elucidate.   I am not familiar with the term "hoop house".   Please 
> excuse my ignorance and explain?
> 

A hoophouse is a cheap way of making homestead buildings by bening PVC pipe 
in hoops and covering them with tarps or plastic.  If the plastic is clear, 
you 
have a greenhouse.

My version has 3' high benches made on fencepost-like supports and then 20' 
1" PVC forms the dome supported in the middle by a 2x4 thus:

http://www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/interior.JPG

The bottom is covered with the standard 3' polyethylene weatherstripping 
plastic an the top is covered with 20' 6mil plastic available at LOWES.  A 
roll is 
100' so I can cover the greenhouse for two years with one roll.