Gardzen Garden Hoops, DIY Greenhouse Hoops for Raised Beds, Row Cover, Garden Netting 24PCS

I purchased the Gardzen Garden Hoops, DIY Greenhouse Hoops to set up a small protective tunnel in my garden, and they’ve worked out wonderfully. The hoops are sturdy, easy to assemble, and flexible enough to shape as needed for different setups.While they’re great for covering crops with mesh or plastic, I’ve also found them perfect for another use—supporting my pea plants! The vines cling to them easily, and it’s helped keep the plants off the ground and growing strong.I love that they’re lightweight but durable, and they’ve held up well through wind and rain. A great multifunctional addition to any garden setup—highly recommend for both greenhouse covers and vertical plant support.

These hoops are proving to be pretty dang strong so far!! They have held up through three significant, hard wind storms and haven’t given up or broken. I do wish they didn’t get stuck in the bend so bad though. I have a bit of a lopsided garden bed, but I’m happy they’ve withheld!

Nice when your setting up your garden for the season.Puts up real easy and takes down for the next year.

I bought this product last spring (the "large" 3-pack) with several uses in mind. In the spring, I covered short rows of cucumbers and broccoli with insect netting to keep the beetles and cabbage worms off - using 3 sticks per hoop, about every 2-3 feet. They looked so good I ended up covering my entire squash bed, an area about 6 feet wide by 20 feet long. These worked really well for that - I was afraid that was too long of a reach, but I did not have any trouble with stability - the cross piece across the top does a great job of providing the rigidity even a large area needs. Great design. The one issue I did have was that that crosspiece stuck out at the ends and worked holes into the netting. My netting was also not super secure at the edges, so all in all, not effective at keeping the squash bugs out - and the netting had to be removed for pollinators once blooms start to form, so not sure it did much good. I disassembled and put it away till fall, when I planted a bunch of cold hardy greens under heavy fabric row cover, this time using these frame pieces between 3-5 feet apart. They worked marvelously! We just had fresh spinach in a salad that I picked yesterday (January 30) from under these little tunnels. Now, 5 foot spacing, even with a crosspiece over the top holding everything together, is really too far if you have any kind of snow or ice load (which is why I'm back on this page considering getting another set). And I did have one plastic stick break - you need to treat them reasonably carefully. I'm also not sure how quickly the UV will deteriorate them - but they've lasted well for this year. I really like this design - it is easy to disassemble, to reconfigure into different lengths based on your current needs, and stores away nicely in a box about the size of a ream of paper if you don't need it. The gloves are super handy for pulling things apart - you do need a good grip. Pliers would work, too, although I haven't needed them. And I've had no trouble at all sticking them down into my Ohio clay soil. All in all, I'm pleased.

These things snap together, they are plastic and didn't weather very well. They easily tip over and so they don't work very well where I live with the deer, occasional bear, etc. I wouldn't get them again

Hoops are easy to make and form into shape

Doesn’t hold up to wind or more than 2 inches of snow. I’ve had this setup for less than a week and it’s completely trashed after a 5 inch snowstorm we had last night. It totally collapsed and the supporting rod is wavy and unable to be straightened. Very disappointing. I knew I should have listened to my gut and figured out a way to get electrical conduit bent for my hoop house instead. This was a waste of time, money, and energy. Not to mention, now I’m adding more plastic to the landfills. I don’t recommend this product

I bought these to keep my dogs (and other critters) out of our strawberry patch. They keep beating us to the delicious strawberries! I read in the instructions that these hoops will last 1-2 growing seasons, so at first I tried to use fewer sections to save some for next year, however the ends wouldn't stay stuck in the dirt. So, I used four sections for each arch for my 4'x8' raised bed, and had the ends pushing against the sides of the raised bed to keep the arch formation, and that worked. When I went inside to get my camera to take pictures, they had all leaned one direction and collapsed (photo 1). To remedy this, I moved the ends of the middle to arches to sort of lean toward each other (photo 2). So far so good, we'll see if it works long term. I previously built a 2 foot fence out of chicken wire around this bed to keep the dogs out but they just hopped it. Hopefully having it fully covered on top will deter them.