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Building A High Tunnel

High tunnels are a way to extend the growing season by protecting your crops without heat.  I built a high tunnel using bent electrical conduit and some re-bar.  By putting the re-bar in the ground and the conduit over it you can raise the conduit high enough to walk into your high tunn

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I bought a hoop bender from Johnny's Selected Seeds and made my hoops.  Then I put the hoops on the rebar and covered the re-bar with greenhouse plastic.  I rolled the plastic around a piece of wood and secured it to the ground with heavy sandbags.

Finally, I purchased a zipper that sticks to the plastic and was able to create a door to the tunnel.

The cost of the high tunnel is dependent on the number of hoops you use.  In other words, its by length.  A roll of greenhouse plastic will run about 100-130 dollars and the other materials are about 7 dollars per hoop.  I placed my hoops just 30" apart.

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