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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gardening...was In Defense of Food
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:09:02 -0800

Because of the snow and wind storms here, I've only gotten about half the e-mails.

We had hoop houses up on the bluff that were made using livestock panels. The winds are 50 mph and higher every single winter. The plastic occassionally lost the battle but the hoop houses stood firm!

A friend here in town also has the livestock panel hoop houses and they have withstood having over 2' of snow dumped on them, wet and heavy snow, I might add, in one night.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- >
On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

My
problem with having a greenhouse is more or less tied up with erratic
weather: when we have these huge 40 and 50 degree shifts in
temperature, we also experience winds in the 25 to 45 mph range. One
thing I can see that needs doing is putting in windbreaks, but does
anyone have experience of a hoop structure that will actually survive
that kind of wind?





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