How to Build a 12 x 14 HOOP GREENHOUSE with Electricity for $300

By Jessie Love

"Exceptionally innovative Hoop Greenhouse"

Grow your own organic vegetables and enjoy fresh flowers late into the winter and early in the spring with your sturdy, homemade hoop greenhouse. This is a spacious sun room and greenhouse. 7 foot center ceilings and 168 square feet of floor area give you plenty of room

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kaleidoscope Publications
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9780938001911

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How to Build a 12 x 14

HOOP GREENHOUSE

with Electricity for $300

Jessie Love

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Published by Kaleidoscope Productions

PO Box 3411; Ashland, OR 97520

www.kaleidoscope-publications.com

ISBN 978-0-938001-91-1

Layout and Design

by Sumara Elan Love

www.3wizardz.com

Copyright © 2006 by Jessie Love

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~Dedicated to~

My wife Sumara, my co-creator;

helping the garden of our lives together

to be abundant and fruitful.

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Table Of Contents

Introduction

1. Frame and Rib Plan Overview

2. Materials and Tools Needed

3. Select a Site

4. Assemble the Foundation Boards

5. Place the Corner Posts

6. Assemble the End Frames

7. Assemble the End PVC Hoops

8. Assemble and Install Side PVC Hoops

9. Install the Plastic End Walls

10. Build the Door

11. Install the GFI Outlet, EMT Conduit and Wiring

12. Install the Roll-up Plastic Over the Hoops

13. Attach the Grommets and Place the Straw Bales

14. Operating Your Greenhouse

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Introduction

Following is the step-by-step procedure to build a 12x14 foot greenhouse (168 square feet), with electricity for lights, fans and heat that can be built in one day, by one person, using common tools you probably already have in your tool box, along with some simple things like screws and door hinges from your local hardware store.

This is a variation with some important modifications, from a design I believe came originally from North Carolina State University. I built the modified version by myself in 10 hours, including laying the underground conduit for the electricity which had to have a 4-inch deep trench dug and run 60 feet from the house to the greenhouse.

This unit would be considered a small greenhouse compared to commercial greenhouses, but it is actually larger than most greenhouses available at stores for the home gardener. It’s really quite spacious. I enjoy