I love the hoop houses, but they've been losing heat because I can't keep the fronts shut. After a conversation with another person from the Portland permaculture group, I revamped one house yesterday in the hour of daylight I had after getting home from school. I screwed a brace into the tubing on each side (to hold them together as I took the house off the rebar spikes), lifted off the tubing/cover, pulled out the 4 rebar spikes, and drove them in inside the box. I carefully put the house over the new rebar locations and stapled the plastic back down. It now closes much more tightly in front. This morning as I left for school in sleet/freezing rain, the remodeled hoop house looked steamy on the inside.
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