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Home » Gardening » How to Make a Backyard Greenhouse with Four Hula-Hoops.

How to Make a Backyard Greenhouse with Four Hula-Hoops.

Updated : March 18, 2017

39 Comments

Crazy right?

Hula-Hoops?

This video is informative, it’s creative, it’s useful and it is funnier than all get out.  And it short!

Take a peek.

So there you have it, the Hula-Hoop Greenhouse and this thing can be used for veggies or For Rooting Cuttings in the Summer.

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Comments

  1. Rob B says

    March 27, 2017 at 12:41 am

    Hi Mike, I’m living in a small apartment in zone 10. I have a good size patio to work on however I get very very little direct sunlight. Working in full shade, i planed on growing tropicals, ferns, hostas and the like. After watching and reading some of your posts I’m thinking that I should narrow my focus and just root cuttings, and forget about growing 5.97 plants and liners.

    How would you approach a hobby (to business) situation like mine, with my land and sunlight limitations?

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 27, 2017 at 6:20 pm

      Rob,

      Keep in mind, once you get going there are all kinds of ways to expand what you are doing. You can still focus on plugs of shade tolerant perennials.

      Reply
  2. Barb says

    March 26, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    Not only is this a nifty idea, she is delightful.

    Reply
  3. Marlene says

    March 23, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    Hi Mike,
    Marlene from Georgia again. Thanks for your response to rooting berries. I didnt see a response concerning the fruit trees. Will I get a good result from rooting cuttings from my pear and peach trees?

    Sorry for the confusion in my previous post. My phone got cracked on the screen and thus a long black line in the center from top to bottom that hides some letters while typing so I didnt see the words were incorrectly spelled…even my name!

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 24, 2017 at 9:13 am

      Marlene,

      Fruit trees are typically budded or grafted onto a seedling rootstock. Some can be rooted, you can try to do some in June, https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2015/01/easy-summertime-plant-propagation-techniques-can-home/

      Reply
  4. Marleen from Georgia says

    March 23, 2017 at 6:40 pm

    Hi Mike,
    That was a great and simple idea for a greenhouse. Thanks for sharing. I have an unrelated question or 2. If I try to root cuttings from my pear and peach trees will I get thw same tree results? I’ve reapes good fruits from them every yr. I have thornless blackberry that I also reap good berries from, do you have any postings on how to root cuttings of berries? Thanks for all the info and I’m always inspired!!

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 23, 2017 at 7:03 pm

      Marleen,

      Try the berries as softwood cuttings this summer; https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2015/01/easy-summertime-plant-propagation-techniques-can-home/

      Reply
    • Holly says

      March 27, 2017 at 7:48 am

      This is soooo funny! What a great video:

      It shows you what to do, quickly, without unnecessary dialog, and kept me laughing throughout. It’s fabulous!

      Reply
  5. Bryan Mann says

    March 23, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    I have never saw hula hoops that came apart like the ones in the video.

    Reply
    • David says

      March 23, 2017 at 10:59 pm

      I can remember from my childhood that the hula hoop is held together at a joint. Your children can do this for you if you promise not to punish them.

      Reply
  6. Louise says

    March 22, 2017 at 8:13 am

    Mike, I’m so glad you shared this with us. I learned something and Suzelle is to funny. I watch several of her other videos. I can understand why she has 116,115 views.
    Cheers!
    To plant a garden is to believe in the future.

    Reply
  7. Marie says

    March 21, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    I loved the video, very succinct, I hate videos that waste your time. I can recreate this greenhouse following her directions with no problem. I also enjoyed her sense of humor and her accent is exactly like a friend so no real problem understanding. For all of you who criticized her accent, I’d humbly suggest a more positive reaction, the visual demonstration was enough to understand her method.

    Reply
  8. Candace says

    March 21, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    so cute – too bad about the complainers – actually “a picture is worth thousand words”
    I could see and understand what she was doing even without the sound
    Thanks Mike 🙂

    Reply
  9. Lauren van Zyl says

    March 21, 2017 at 11:36 am

    Awesome. Suzelle is a proudly South African personality and I am so pleased to see that she has hit the overseas market.. Take a look at some of her other DIY videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/SuzelleDIY

    Reply
  10. kathy says

    March 21, 2017 at 10:55 am

    too cute! Not a bad idea either but way too small
    for our needs.

    Reply
    • E says

      March 21, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      make a bigger one!!

      Reply
  11. Norm says

    March 20, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    People in New York City Might understand that woman but rednecks like me just turn her off. Disgusting.

    Reply
  12. Barbara says

    March 20, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    This is good for getting plants ready for out doors. I’ll have to try it.

    Reply
  13. Carol says

    March 20, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    It needs subtitles, lol!

    Reply
  14. Iceni says

    March 20, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Very amusing and informative. What were the dimensions?

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 21, 2017 at 7:57 am

      Iceni,

      I don’t know, you can make it as long as you want and I’d guess about 3′ wide.

      Reply
  15. Dolores says

    March 20, 2017 at 11:50 am

    This is fast and easy.. I MUST show this to the HUBBY. he is recovering from a broken neck ,but there is always NEXT YEAR.. t

    Reply
    • Ned says

      March 20, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Quite clever. Thanks!

      Reply
    • Gee Willikers says

      March 20, 2017 at 7:20 pm

      Hope he’s better soon!

      Reply
  16. Carol says

    March 20, 2017 at 11:27 am

    Would be more helpful if you could understand what she’s saying!

    Reply
    • David Lee says

      March 20, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      I agree.

      Reply
    • Linna Lawrence says

      March 20, 2017 at 8:18 pm

      I agree…couldn’t understand her AND she’s very lucky she didn’t cut her left thumb off using that hack saw on the hula hoop! Good idea though LOL!

      Reply
  17. Linda M. Kiefer says

    March 20, 2017 at 10:30 am

    Use 3/4 inch black plastic tubing and the same idea and you can make it as big as you like. Instead of rebar I use the rebar type light weight garden fence posts without cutting them. That way when/if the plants get taller you can just slide the piping up and “raise the roof”

    Reply
  18. Ed Doerr says

    March 20, 2017 at 10:24 am

    I used 1/2″ emt electrical conduit ( costs $1.00 each I bent a 90 at the halfway point worked really good

    Reply
  19. Anna says

    March 20, 2017 at 10:15 am

    Ah, but first I must install a pool. For if a wasp might happen to appear within my bonnet, I shall desire a lovely place to which I may escape. Have you instructions for such a project?

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 20, 2017 at 2:30 pm

      Anna,

      I’ll look into that.

      Reply
  20. Jay says

    March 20, 2017 at 9:53 am

    A bit too frantic and gabbled. Unclear what the sticks are that support the hoops. Looks like a brilliant idea, don’t know where one would find hoola hoops nowadays, or has the craze regenerated whilst I wasn’t looking.

    Reply
    • Mike says

      March 20, 2017 at 2:32 pm

      Jay,

      Rebar. Pretty sure you can still find hula-hoops.

      Reply
      • Anonymous says

        March 20, 2017 at 3:02 pm

        I have seen them in $ stores. I’m not sure if they are as sturdy as ones you might find at Wal-Mart or someplace like that.

        Reply
      • Anonymous says

        March 20, 2017 at 5:27 pm

        check your local dollar stores

        Reply
      • Colleen says

        March 20, 2017 at 6:31 pm

        Yeppers!! The $1.00 tree had hula hoops,, so do grocery stores? I thought she was Awesome!! L?VE
        HER???❤?

        Reply
      • Roger says

        March 21, 2017 at 5:10 am

        They are available at the dollar stores but on a sometime basis. Get them quick since everybody will buy them up after watching this video. I want to do this, cheaper than anything we can buy ready to go, just time energy and money, ha. I ahve about half of it already and it is still spring.

        Reply
      • Shirley says

        March 21, 2017 at 6:42 am

        Walmart has hula-hoops….all sizes…

        Reply
  21. Karen Gadbury says

    March 20, 2017 at 9:42 am

    Love it! Very cool

    Reply

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