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Build Your Own Hoop Greenhouse
April Probst, Fillmore, Ill.: April grows flowers and vegetables in a 12-ft. wide by 24-ft. long Lost Creek hoop greenhouse and says it's her "best buy" (Lost Creek Greenhouse Systems, Mineola, Texas ph 903 569-8541; herbs@lostcreek.net; www.lostcreek.net).
What makes the greenhouse unique is that it's construct
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Build Your Own Hoop Greenhouse BUILDINGS Miscellaneous 34-1-15 April Probst, Fillmore, Ill.: April grows flowers and vegetables in a 12-ft. wide by 24-ft. long Lost Creek hoop greenhouse and says it's her "best buy" (Lost Creek Greenhouse Systems, Mineola, Texas ph 903 569-8541; herbs@lostcreek.net; www.lostcreek.net).
What makes the greenhouse unique is that it's constructed using the company's hoop bending tools. Bending your own hoops can save as much as 70 percent over ready-made kits, says Lost Creek. The company offers a variety of bending tools depending on the size of the greenhouse to be built. The bending tools are shipped with 38-page instructions in PDF format on a CD, plus a bending tip DVD.
Probst's husband Dan framed the greenhouse and then filled in rock around it.
April starts many of her plants in February in waist-level planters. Mostly she plants tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and some flowers. She also uses a waist-level medical gurney to help move plants around. She markets a big portion of the plants later in the spring at a local farmer's market. She also sells wholesale.
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