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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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