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The Hoophouse Handbook: Growing Produce and Flowers in Hoophouses and High Tunnels

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I should have paid more attention to the listing for this "book." I put off buying it for a long time, because the price was a little high. I was shocked when it arrived because it is not a book, it's a 60 page magazine. For $23. The majority of the book is a series of one to three page articles by different people about their hoophouse experiences. The section on materials, design and construction is 16 pages long. Most of those pages are pictures. For under $20, buy The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses and get far more detailed and practical information on hoophouses and similar season extenders.

I live in the Midwest where corn and soybeans are the predominate agricultural product. The only hoop houses in the area are those erected by retail businesses who sell bedding plants to the public. I have helped raise one of those hoophouses in a parking lot. Lynn Byczynski's directions on how to raise one in the field is more to my needs. It is good to have a source of information that will help me do so. I am sure I am going to get a lot of comments and questions when I do. But, I know from this book that it can be a profitable adventure well worth the time.

This is a great book. Good information. Description excellent. Service Great. The contents illustrate a way of gardening for the future for both commercial growers and the home gardener. The cost of the hoop tunnel is comparably inexpensive with a payback for just a couple of years.

When I received this book, I was disappointed it didn't have more pages. Then once I began to read it, I found that it was packed with information and even websites to help you start your own hoophouses. I was very pleased with the information I got from it and I know I will reference it as I go along with my future growing endeavors.

This book helped me immensely. It covered all aspects of growing and installing a hoophouse. Not only did it provide valuable general information, it had articles from actual growers and their experiences. I would highly recommend this book.

I bought this hoping for a more detailed plan of actually building a hoop house, hopefully one scalable to the size I want. The information is great, don't get me wrong. It just didn't have what I really needed.

It is also short on info for adapting both flowering times and fruiting times to one's USDA growing zone.