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- From: "nan and stewart" <stewart AT watervalley.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Hoop house - how to anchor down
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 08:05:46 -0500
This is especially for Alison and Lynn
(G4M).....
I am about to order my hoop house, thanks to all
the great advice from this listserve...
but in reviewing plans with my colleague who
manages several greenhouses professionally (the Natural Products Center at Univ.
of Miss, growing medicinal herbs....which if anyone is nearby enough, they
usually have TONS of seedlings to give away in the spring - let me know) I
have this question:
How do your models anchor the hoops to the side of
the hoop house, and have you sunk the four corners into some type of concrete
footing....or is there perimeter footing all around, or does it just rest on the
ground, etc....
These questions came up as we are considering how
best to prevent the hoop house from being carried away like Mary Poppins and her
umbrella (besides the common sense precaution of NOT rolling up the sides when
it is going to be a windy day)
The greenhouse will be sited with roof line running
east to west (obviously, to catch winter sun to south).....the prevailing winds
come up through the pasture and up the little knoll that it will sit on, but
then will flow right over the rounded sides (with the sides DOWN)
still, I am willing to do something more serious
about anchoring the hoop house than just "setting" it on the
ground...
any last comments, advice? much
appreciated....nan
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Hoop house - how to anchor down,
nan and stewart, 02/04/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down, wiediger, 02/04/2001
- Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down, Bill Shoemaker, 02/05/2001
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