How Build a HOOP COVER for Raised Beds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- This PVC and treated lumber-free design keeps deer and other pests out of your garden. It also makes adding row cover, shade cloth, plastic, or frost protection simple. Add hinges to make a flip-up cover, or simply move it to wherever deer protection is needed.
We sure sleep better at night now, knowing that our tasty produce is protected from marauders. Here I will show you-- in exhausting detail-- how I build our versatile BED CAPS. I even show how to build a metal conduit bender, and how to easily bend sturdy and durable metal garden hoops.
I appreciate your attention to detail. Thanks.
You are one heck of a craftsman and instructor. Many thanks for the great video
@@GreenfishPete That's nice to hear. Wish I had time for more videos. I made 3 new beds and caps this spring.
Great work
I really like the gutters technique. Great build.
That was amazing video clip you put together there off you make those hoops for your veggies garden there it was great to watch it there. An keep up the amazing video clip there. 👍👍
Thanks Mick. That's good to hear. Mark
Great video. Thank you. Prefect for our needs.
Thanks Paula. I'm building another one today.
It looks very professional and stable 👍
4:44 Cutting 2" to the center line of the blade... 2+2+1.5 and 2+1.5+1.5
Great video! I have 3' deep beds and need to work them from both sides. I'll figure out what arc the bender would need for a 3' bed. I'll also mount the hinges on an end instead of the sides, so I can work both sides of the bed. Thank you for the inspiration!!
Thank you. If you have a piece of flexible tubing, you can bend it on a flat surface at the desired size for your bend. Clamp it down, and slip a piece of plywood under the top center of the hoop, then scribe that radius. You can then make a bender out of the plywood, as I did, using those dimensions for bending metal conduit (3/4" plywood for 1/2" conduit).
@@backwoodbasics9383 OH, duh! Simple & brilliant at the same time! I do have some black tubing I was thinking of trying for a sample hoop. Will use that to create my metal bending jig!
Enjoyed your video, thank you for the detail. Reminds me of my dad. Question for you. If you want to use a flexible piece of irrigation tubing for the hoop, what is the formula for determining the length of tubing tyou need if you want different heights on different beds? For example: 2ft height on one bed, three foot height on another, and 4 feet on another. (I forgot my algebraic formulas...haha) Thank you.
Thanks Horton. I am more seat-of-the-pants in my designs. I would clamp flexible tubing to a flat surface, at the height and width desired. Then lay a piece of plywood under the tubing, and trace the arc, while finding where the bend ends, and how high you want the vertical sides to be,
@@backwoodbasics9383 Thank you, sir. I appreciate your "seat of the pants" methods. Kinda of right down my alley...if I were that creative. I'll give you suggestion a try.
I've used treated wood in my raised beds for years and I'm still kicking at 77 years. How about the fertilizers and pest control that we apply to our gardens? We won't use treated wood but we'll use things that are as bad or worse.
Right. We don't use anything but chopped leaves in our gardens. My concern with treated wood is more about milling it. Some also say galvanized metal is unsafe near crops. Lots of opinions out there.
My raised bed dimensions are 2.5 ft wide X 6 ft long. I want the hoops to be 30 inches tall. How do I calculate how long a length of conduit to use, and where to mark in from the ends to start the bend? Also, since my hoops will be narrower and shorter than yours, can I still bend 1/2" conduit, or will that be too difficult? Thank you - great video!
My seat-of-the-pants method would be to bend flexible material, like poly tubing, or even garden hose, to your desired dimensions on a flat work surface. Once spring clamped in place, slide a piece of 2' wide 3/4" plywood evenly under the top portion of the arc, and draw the arc on the plywood (on the inside of the tubing). Measure how tall the vertical "legs" would be, to get your desired height, and conduit length.. Cut out the bender, and add the strap, as I showed. The 1/2" conduit should bend OK, but the bender will need to be well-secured to the bending surface. This should get you close to what you want.
Excellent - genuinely appreciated. @@backwoodbasics9383
Really great stuff! In the process of building some according to your directions right now. Didn’t catch it in the video, but what are the dimensions of the bed in this video?
Thanks
Thanks. We now have 5 of them (although they are under 2' of snow yet). The outside dimensions of the top cap is a full 4'x8'. So the Bed Cap frame on the outside is also 4x8.