hoop house

[hoop haus]

noun

1. a simple greenhouse for plants growing directly in the ground, usually having no temperature control and made by covering an arched metal frame with clear plastic.

Example Sentences

Small-scale rice farmers grow seedlings in a green- or hoop house and transplant them, which can now happen earlier in the year, meaning planting more varieties with varying maturation times could even result in two growing seasons.

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Osnin Noe Quintanilla-Melendez, 32, from Honduras died sleeping in a cannabis hoop house with a running generator.

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Officers used a mini-dozer to raze cannabis beneath a hoop house built out of PVC pipe, while Persing peered inside one of the plywood sheds used for habitation.

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But the fund is also helping to build a “hoop house,” or covered garden, able to produce food year-round.

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It would be unusual, however, unless they were grown in a greenhouse or hoop house.

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