Comments on: Can A PVC Pipe Greenhouse Survive A Canadian Winter?

By: brandon

brandon — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:51:57 +0000

Well i saw on some youtube videos that you can grow in about 40 degrees F in the winter put a small heater in it and there you go lettuce i think im going to do that but not sure if the heat will leave the greenhouse or do a double thick poly greenhouse

By: Kris Pearson

Kris Pearson — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:53:43 +0000

Love your greenhouse. Wish we had space for one like this here or that they’d let us build one on our little orchard. The book Four Season Harvest that Claire mentions is great. I think you’d find lots of inspiration in there about growing year round. I certainly did. Now just need to get a roof on our greenhouse again. Doh! BTW, I thought it was cold here in Germany at -13°C. I can barely fathom -35. Brrr!

By: Sheryl at Providence Acres Farm

Sheryl at Providence Acres Farm — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:26:38 +0000

Very interesting post! We are thinking of building one of these and need to know how it will stand up to our winter.

Great site!!

By: Kesh

Kesh — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:37:45 +0000

We live in NW Montana, 60 miles from the Canadian Border at 4200 feet. Gardening in April/May would be impossible without our hoop house which we built last year. It is 11′x42′. We just used 6mil poly and it worked great. By then end of the season it smelled dank and we had some slugs on the squash. The tomatoes still didn’t ripen, they often needed double cover. Our summer day and night temps can vary up to 50 degrees (30-80) so we are dealing with severity here. Our salad garden is being picked now, end of May and we are thinking of keeping this hoop house up thru June in order to protect those plants (greens, lettuces and cabbages) because we inevitably get a winter storm of snow or hail sometime in June which devasts the garden. Planting this weekend in the garden (June 5th) and creating another (same size) hoop down the other end of garden, this time with clear green house plastic (6mil) which we will keep up all summer on that bed which will house our eggplants, tomatoes anc cucumbers and some squash. We plan to keep the hoop up in one area only 1 yr at a time, do crop rotation and air out the earth that had been covered. The clear greenhouse plastic should be a much prettier site this year!
Good luck gardening,everyonel

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:17:10 +0000

Dammit!
I just typed a whole long message, but when I tried to submit it my FireFox hung.
Did it come though or do I need to redo it?

By: My Hoop-Frame Greenhouse In the Snow | Alberta Home Gardening

My Hoop-Frame Greenhouse In the Snow | Alberta Home Gardening — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:06:51 +0000

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By: Tiffany @ NOH

Tiffany @ NOH — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:50:12 +0000

Love your greenhouse. Wish we had space for one like this here or that they’d let us build one on our little orchard.

The book Four Season Harvest that Claire mentions is great. I think you’d find lots of inspiration in there about growing year round. I certainly did. Now just need to get a roof on our greenhouse again. Doh!

BTW, I thought it was cold here in Germany at -13°C. I can barely fathom -35. Brrr!

By: claire

claire — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:34:57 +0000

have you seen this book? the author uses double layers of this kind of structure (so another greenhouse/row cover inside the greenhouse, basically..) to create huge differences in temp and extend the season. amazing. I can’t wait to try this next year.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=QMHdDgkRjDkC&lpg=PP1&dq=four%20season%20harvest&client=firefox-a&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

By: Mads

Mads — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:25:34 +0000

Now it’s for sure I’m building one next spring!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:05:56 +0000

winter was a major concern when i was considering building this earlier in the year. this post definitely inspires me to try it next season.