It is too early to sow spring transplants even with our recent unseasonably warm day temperatures, but it is an ideal time to grow gardens under the plastic of a hoop house. Raising crops in hoop ...

Last fall, my husband and I built a small hoop house, which is a plastic-covered greenhouse. Its primary purpose was for growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the winter months. Since winters ...

When living in a temperate climate, some gardeners use their creativity in order to extend the growing season as much as possible. I am one of those gardeners. Over the years, I’ve been experimenting ...

On a cool but sunny day in late March, I parted a plastic curtain, stepped into a hoop house in Swannanoa, and found a flourishing garden. Arugula, Swiss chard, spring beauty, ‘Lollo Rosso’ lettuce, ...

Hoop houses, those large temporary membrane structures, remain banned in Elmhurst residential areas, although home gardeners looking to extend the growing season may use smaller plastic-covered low ...

Previously, we wrote in general terms about ways to extend the growing season in winter with a hoop house. But depending on the cover you use for your hoop house; they are also valuable tools for ...

More than 30 volunteers and University of Nevada, Reno staff and students spent a sunny, yet windy, winter day last week building six hoop houses that will be used to grow vegetables year-round to ...

GROW Local South Texas has some of the best hands-on educational events in the city. Join them this Sunday to learn how to construct your very own “hoop house” for your garden. According to ...

Nearly two dozen supporters of an Elmhurst family’s long-running effort to get city permission to extend their backyard gardening season with a plastic-covered temporary greenhouse demanded Monday ...

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance regulating the use of plastic tubular tent structures known as hoop houses on agricultural lands. The use of hoop houses is ...

FLINT, MI -- An act of arson won't stop the continuation of a vegetable growing program at a Flint elementary school. On Tuesday, May 24 around 8:40 p.m. the Flint Fire Department responded to Pierce ...