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DIY Portable Low Tunnel Kit
DIY Portable Low Tunnel Kit
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DIY Low Tunnels
Protect your seedlings from extreme temperatures, insects, and sunscald. Low tunnels give you many of the benefits of a hoop house without a big investment of space or money. Once built, these low tunnels are easy to move between garden beds or rows of crops.
Snap on clamps make it easy to switch coverings from greenhouse plastic in the coolness of early spring to shade cloth in the heat of summer.
Description
This low tunnel kit along with our 4' bender is everything you need to build a portable low tunnel in 10’ or 20’ lengths. Choose between shade cloth, insect netting, frost blanket or plastic sheeting for coverage. Use our detailed instructions to bend your own hoops and install connectors to make a sturdy low tunnel.
Key Features
- Portable, allowing you to use it wherever you need.
- Easy to construct with only a few basic fittings
- Useful for protection from pests, weather, and sunscald.
- Reusable, these sturdy structures can be stored and used for years.
- Perfect for creating microclimates with shade cloth or plastic cover.
- Great for breeding experiments and seed-saving.
- Comes with printable PDF instructions.
Includes
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10’ Low Tunnel Kit
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20’ Low Tunnel Kit
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Optional: Hoop Bender *, Insect Netting, Shade Cloth, Plastic, or Frost Blanket ** Benders are sold separately for those who want multiple kits. |
There are very few products out there that you buy once and it will keep on serving you. These can be reused year after year instead of ending up in the garbage can or landfill, so good for you and good for the environment. You pay a little more, but you save over time. I am absolutely sold on Bootstrap products.
What I like about the kit is that the plastic trays and dome are made of a very sturdy material, not like the flimsy trays I have used in the past. It was difficult to move full trays when they were not rigid. These trays are quite rigid and I think will make moving them much easier. They also seem like they will hold up longer with normal usage.
It was convenient to get everything I needed for a small seed starting in one package and I didn't have to search around for all the parts. It has the mesh bottom insert that seems to be necessary for use with soil blocking, so that was a big plus to me.
I am going to try the soil blocking, so I'm excited to try the blocker. Just getting everything set up now. However, the blocker seems to be in good working order even though I haven't actually used it yet.
One thing I think would improve the website is mentioning in the item description that the plastic is much sturdier than ones mostly seen in the stores. I wasn't quite sure that it was the sturdier version, but I decided to take a chance. Just making that clearer in the description would have been helpful. (i.e. "these trays and domes aren't the flimsy version you find in most stores!") I am sure people more used to using greenhouse products know that, but people new to that might not.
