Small low tunnels can be built using nine-gauge wire hoops approximately 18 inches in height. These types of low tunnels are best suited to short-term frost protection.

[email protected] DECORAH, Iowa — Four Decorah area local growers recently shared how they are using hoops, high and low tunnels and greenhouses to extend the season on their farming operations.

High tunnels, low tunnels and caterpillar tunnels work well, too. Also known as hoop houses or row covers, the tunnels consist of U-shaped metal or PVC ribs draped by thin, plastic sheets.

Here, you’ll find our best ideas and plans for DIY cold frames, greenhouses, hoop houses, low tunnels, cloches and other tools that can keep the harvests coming throughout fall and beyond.

These can be low to the ground, waist high or large structures that allow people and small farm equipment to easily move about within. Another term used for them is hoop houses.

As with mesh netting for wildlife protection, cloth row covers, or plastic low tunnels, shade cloth needs a supportive structure to rest on, and low tunnel hoops are ideal for this purpose.

I use low tunnels year-round, and they are easy and effective! We included instructions on how to make a simple low tunnel in our blog article of Jan. 4, 2022. Here is the link: ...

These “greenhouses” go by several names including low tunnels, hoop houses and row covers and can be made of PVC pipe bent in a “U” shape and then covered with clear plastic or porous spun ...

High tunnels, low tunnels and caterpillar tunnels work well, too. Also known as hoop houses or row covers, the tunnels consist of U-shaped metal or PVC (polyvinyl chloride) ribs draped by thin ...

2 / 8: Jonathon Moser displays a low tunnel hoop at his farm near Streeter, N.D., on July 2, 2018. Using low tunnels has helped Forager Farm extend North Dakota's short growing season.

CWRU Farm's original high tunnel (hoop house) was built in September 2010 thanks to the generosity of Bon Appetit Management Company. The high tunnel was designed and installed by Tunnel Vision Hoops, ...