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Tilling the soil
The soil was waterlogged and packed so I used the root-tiller. The tilled area was to server the hoop house and a corn patch just south of it.

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Bending conduit with a hoop bender
Working with Marge Hindle on bending conduit for a hoop house. The benders are on the plywood on the trailer

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Tomato hoop house
We built a hoop house from a modular gothic kit, making two units and joining them.

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Hoop house with doors
The scissor doors are nice, but I was puzzled how to hold them open.

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Preparing soil inside
After I had walked all over the ground building the hoop house, I needed to loose the soil so I could fertilize, add compost and transplant tomatoes.

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Transplanting
I got the peppers in right away, but it took some time to prepare the soil in the hoop house.

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Hoop house ready for a storm
From the side the 22 1/5 feet of the hoop house appears really long.

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Scissor door latches
I thought for days how to make a hook to hold the scissor doors open. The idea came from the wire hanger I had for a hanging basket.

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Transplanting done
Finally, on June 21, I finished transplanting 9 pepper plants (Poblano, Anaheim and California Wonder) and 35 tomatoes.

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June 30, cover up!
At the end of June it was getting quite warm in the hoop house during the day, so I raised the sides to allow more airflow.

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July 22, 2014
Nearing the end of July the plants were reaching for the sky. By the end of the season they had truly "occupied" the entire space.