Starting in January, we covered the construction site with a tarp to kill the grass.
The site was then rototilled…
We built the hoophouse roughly according to the instructions provided by Johnny’s Seeds. The hoops for the high tunnel are just top rails for chain link fence (1 3/8″, available at Lowes). We bent these using a homemade pipe bender, fashioned by cutting a 7′ radius arc into a 2″x10″ board.
The hoops were mounted on posts driven into the ground, and then covered with 6 mil UV-resistant green house poly film.
