Oh - and I put pipe-insulation on the ends to keep the plastic from chafing. This time I may even take a split water-hose and work it into the seems so the plastic will sit on the water-hose and not the wire-ends that don't always perfectly evenly match. Since I'll be using plywood ends, I'll staple the panel hoops to the plywood, then cut the plywood to match the hoop round with just a little lip and put the pipe-insulation on that. Then the plastic will wrap over that, and I can take a water-hose to wrap the plastic ends around and attach that to the plywood by those hose-retainer thingies you find at the average hardware store. That way the plastic is easy to remove. To keep tears in the plastic from getting too big - if you use the cheap hardware-store poly - you can apply strips of duct tape to the plastic in a wide grid - that way if the plastic in one grid tears with the wind, the duct-tape will stop the tear.
Have fun,
Mike
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Originally Posted by mikevan
It can be as short as you want it to be. 9' wide and 6' tall and 52" long hoops placed end to end. You can put a couple of cattle-panels together to form a 9x9' greenhouse, basically.
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