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I bought a house this year and so I'm trying gardening for the first time. Since the house sits on nearly pure clay, raised gardening seemed like the best option. I spent a lot of $$$ on a raised bed and dirt for that bed and I wanted to make sure that insects or rabbits didn't eat all the plants. A covered garden seemed like a good solution and I figured I would need tall hoops to accommodate growth in bean plants and cucumber plants.

Well, first the plants have not grown as anticipated. I blame brutal weather and not the right dirt. But who knows? Maybe it's just the fault of an incompetent gardener.

In any case, the hoops are decent. They're probably best for a 3-foot wide bed, but they work ok for a 4-foot wide bed like the one I have.

You'll need pretty wide row covers to be able to fasten them on the sides.

The hoops are somewhat flimsy. In strong winds, expect them to bend and probably fall over.

They're not the most attractive things in the world. Not horrible, but certainly not an aesthetic enhancement to the garden.

In conclusion, I think they are decent for the price, but I think I'll probably remove them and just take my chances with insects and rabbits, using natural repellants like Neem oil if I have to.

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Works well although its a bit flimsy in my soft raised bed soil. Best to stake it in windy areas. Overall a good product.

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This was exactly what I needed to protect my beans from the deer and rabbits! I have four raised bed gardens, of different sizes. A fence around the all of them would be difficult and unattractive. I need something that will protect each bed. I had a "home made" system for years. The problem with that was it was not tall enough and difficult to get to the beans. The super hoops are high enough to allow the beans to grow. I put netting over the entire system and secured it with clothes pins and a few landscaping pins. I can easily lift a section to thin the beans and weed. I added some plastic, yellow "ribbon" to make it visable. I can see where it would be useful for other vegatables.
They will also be easy to store when the garden is finished.
Great product. I highly recommend it.

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These proved to be sturdy and yet easy to use. I used clothes pins to attach the cloth to the hoops, and it makes it very simple to remove the cloth and check the plants. They are good protection for the garden plants, and I don't worry about them falling.

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i believe that i should have known that super hoops were just 2 regular hoops put together,they are not as sturdy with the center held together by small sleeve,you have to hold center together while you get the bend or they fall off into rocks.once you have them in place they work fine. i have extras and have no way to return them

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Still trying to figure out the best use in my garden

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To lightweight for windy area. Super hoops bent on windy days.

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Lightweight and easy to use. Storage is a snap.

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I bought 4 sets of hoops. [...] Since I didn't have need for all the hoops at once and there were no instructions or inventory, I jury rigged the use of the first two sets. Enclosing the connectors for each set within the set's box and including a simple instruction sheet would have been helpful.

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Hoops are weak and break easily at the welds if needed to be readjusted

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We have high heat and burning sun in the desert.I put the green sun block netting over my tomatoes to help block direct sun.These hoops are just perfect to keep the net off the tomatoes and plenty of room to pick the fruit.I bent the tops over tires I am using for planters and they worked just fine.I am very pleased.

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My hoops arrived without instructions and I bent them according to what made sense to me. When I found the connectors--in a separate package [...] I re-bent the hoops and installed them correctly. They were fine at the time, but a week later I noted that the cross braces are separating from the hoops. I worry that more will break.

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I use these super hoops in a client's gardens.She has had them for years. They are sturdier than the new ones. I thought the medal needed to be denser like the old ones. The welding let go on one right away on first use, and they bent instead of staying a smooth curve. But I really wnat to use them and like the width of the double hoop versus the single ones I have.

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I used them to install bird netting over my salad seedlings.

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I like that the tall hoops can be used short or tall. it is a bit difficult to rebend them when changing the height or distance between the hoop ends. They would be a bit studier if they could be buried more deeply in the ground when in the tall position.
The main difficulty I had was that Gardeners Supply does not carry a wide enough light weight summer fabric to cover the width of my raised bed with tall hoops, I was able to get such a fabric from another source and the hoops and cloth look really neat - like a pioneer's wagon. I am using the system for tomato plants to keep out pests. I would like to have even taller and sturdier hoops that would work over mature tomato plants.

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Very disappointed. Are not sturdy as I expected, bend too easily, won't support moderate UV cloth

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Used with the garden fabric early in season, with netting to discourage rabbits during growing season and will use with the protective fabric when the scorching hot weather arrives.

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My strawberry crop has been plagued with birds. Have looked for this type of product for a while. Pleased to find it in your catalog. Was not difficult to install. Now have a perfect "strawberry tent".

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I use this with the All-purpose fabric as a wind screen during the Spring blustery months. It has been most effective for my deck garden.

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I currently am using these to keep my animal friends out of my garden beds (another Gardeners Supply product). I tied bright flagging and it has hoodwinked the deer, birds, and groundhog so far. Later in the season I will use these with row covers.

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*Used in small raised bed garden with netting to protect young broccolli, pea transplants and to protect lettuce seed sprouts from pests/birds/groundhog.
*Other planned uses: to extend growing season in NH.
*Six hoops are delivered; I only used three for 4x6 ft. area.

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These hoops make planting time earlier and help make mini greenhouses. Have used them for many years. A great, but simple, product

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I am using these hoops in my raised 6x3 bed. It along with the summerweight fabric keeps the bugs off my plants while still letting in sun, rain and air circulation. The lettuce seems to love it. I used clothespins to hold it and so far, it has stood up to the high winds. These were super-easy and intuitive to set up.

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I love using the hoops because I can't wait to get my veggies planted outside. The only thing I don't like is they are not big enough for my raised gardens which are 4 1/2 X 8.

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I missed these the first time they were offered...so glad they are offered now.
Covering for frost...early or late...is often
difficult to do. These help keep the cover off the plants and help in air flow.

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I used the super hoops in a 4 x 8' raised bed. They went together very easily and are very sturdy even in West Texas winds. I covered the hoops with netting to keep pests out. Later in the summer I am planning on adding shade cloth and in the late Fall using it to extend crops. In early spring I will use it as a grow bed. The hoops are, in one word...SUPER!

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These are not suitable for high wind states like Colorado and probably Wyoming and other western states. The wind just flattens them and knocks them sideways. After three days of winds I gave up and took them out. Also when inserting them in the soil beware of pushing down on the crossbars- they break off very easily. Also the little connector pieces don't hold that tightly - they flip off easily and fly into the grass where they can't be found. All in all I was pretty disappointed in them and none of the information about them on the web tells that they come in two pieces with little joining tubes which are easy to lose.

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Good as far as they go, but would be more useful if taller and a bit heavier gauge wire. My plants have already reached the top, and it is only May (but this is Texas). However, I would buy again and augment with something for more height.

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Very stable

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I ordered the hoops several years ago and they fell into disuse at the back of my shed. Got new 4' wide raised beds this year, am concentrating on season extension and pest control so bought two more sets. At first I was concerned that, since they are designed to be used with 3' beds they would not be useful. Was able to stretch them by cutting 16-18" sections of narrow PVC tubing, sticking half of the pipe in the ground and then inserting the hoop tips into the exposed end of the tube. [...]

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I bought two sets to use with my two 3x6 raised beds that I bought from Gardener's Supply last year. (Those black plastic raised beds are great, by the way!) The hoops installed easily and stayed put. I initially thought they were a bit too "bendy" but that makes it easier to adjust the arch. It might be nice if some sort of clips were included to attach your chosen covering. I made some wire hooks out of coat hangers. My use is with bird netting over my strawberries. The hoops keep the netting from getting tangled in the plants.

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My husband built a raised garden bed. It keeps rabbits and other rodents out but not birds. The super hoops and cover really allow my garden to grow uninterrupted. I love it. Really like this product.

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I like this product because it gives your greens room to grow. I feel they could be a little thicker or sturdier because when you bend them to place them, if you bend to far you can ruin them and leave large bend areas in them that cannot be straightend out again.

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Bought to put fabric purchased over garden. Very flimsy poles. Had to be staked into the ground. One was broken. Huge disappointment.

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I purchased these so I could ad my shade cloth
to my herbs. Will help when 100 degrees arrive.
Great in my herb table
Glad we got them--they are sturdy yet flexible.
Highly recommend them.

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Solved my bird pest problems...these hoops helped me to drape bird netting over my vegetable garden rows.

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This is a great improvement over single wire hoops. No more trying to figure out how to keep them erect when the wind blows hard, like it does at my house. The only caution I have for using these is to be careful how you bend them as they can kink. I used a large trash barrel to "mold" them into a nice arc after trying to hand bend the first one.

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We have been having huge wind storms this spring, so it has been helpful to have a sturdy product for attaching row covers.

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I will use superhoops with row cover cloth to cover eggplant plants to protect from flea beetles until the plants are large enough.
I will use the hoops without the row covers for vining plants like cucumbers to keep them off the ground.
I will use the hoops with row cover cloth in the fall as season extenders and hope to try lettuce through the winter.

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I am new to gardening and I have 3 new raised beds in my yard. In our area we have many wild animals that come to have tastes of my veg.
The pix in the catalog & on line look so pretty and useful. When this item arrived I was excited to put it to use. This is my first experience with garden hoops and maybe these are an improvement on others like them. I found it quite a challenge to set-up. I needed a helper to attach all the pieces together and place it in the raised bed. I am very disappointed with the way it looks and flimsy construction. Set up requires hooking lengths together with tiny metal links. The product is made to curve but bends very easily. The curve is not uniform like the pictures. It is very unattractive and makes my garden netting very visible because the curves are such a mess. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that both products- the high and low are exactly the same just with more links and pieces of metal.
It has turned out so unattractive that I only used it in one of my raised beds and I have the rest in my garage. Now I am looking for really tall bamboo to link together and put my netting over. It is much less visually intrusive.
I was really disappointed about this product.
It gets the job done but if you are looking to enjoy the visual impact of raised beds and you are an amateur this product is not for you

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Great as a support for floating row covers

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Great product

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I was somewhat skeptical that these would work given they arrived horizontal and must be hand bent. That being said, they are light & flexible and easily bent into the proper shape. For importantly, they remain in place despite no buttressing from raised bed planks. The only drawback I can see would be the crescent shape that does not allow water to permeate the row covers..hence more monitoring & watering may be required.

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Supports shade cloth well.

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Perfect for my application after it took me some time to figure out how to put them together. Would be nice to have even a simple instruction sheet.

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Although I bought these to use in the garden later this year, they really came in handy to help protect my early daffodils from freezing temps. this spring.

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I bought a set of six Super Hoops for my 4 x 8 raised bed so that I could protect my seedlings from our cold Seattle spring weather. I used some white polyspun fabric cloth to drape over it and secured it with some small clamps. It worked much better than the flexible tubing my husband tried to erect over the bed as the hoops set up quickly and sturdily and didn't keel over as the tubing had. The strong hoop wires withstood some very fierce winds, never moving, as you can drive the ends into the ground up to about 6 inches. The hoops will remain up as the vegetables grow, as they are about 3 1/2 feet off the ground at their peak. The fabric cloth will allow rain and sun to permeate and have the added advantage of keeping the bugs out. I highly recommend the Super Hoops!

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I got the shorter hoops. I assumed (yes, I know) they would flex in the same way cattle panels do, and make that nice arch. They don't. They bend in the middle. They will still hold up the netting but if I had known this I would not have bought them.

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Used to cover new plants in Garden to protect from cold, worked great. Should work great to protect plants from frost later in the yr. Kept the plant blanket up off the plants. Will order more later depending on plants at time frost is due.

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I have the three x three raised growing beds. These work perfect. They bend very easily to fit bed. I live in the lower desert and my plants need shade. So I use it with your shade net.

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I use these supports to support my homemade row cover made from netting. They are very stable, but I do wish I had purchased the taller one.

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just what I needed.

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We used the super hoops to suport netting that covers our water garden (goldfish pond). The hoops are great because they are flexible and light and don't detract from the appearance of the pond.

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I am very happy with the overall quality and usefullness of the hoops. But I found that the smaller size was not enough and the bigger were too much for my application. So I trimmed mine down a bit. But could you not just make a intermediate size?

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Disappointment, No cloth came with the metal as shown in photo. [...]

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I like these hoops they are much better than the flimsy hoops I tried to make over my garden last year. I wish I would have found these sooner!

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I have not covered my hoops with any covering. I plan on using some nylon netting for shade and bird protection. In the winter, I will be using a plastic covering.

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These are the only hoops I've found that are at a decent height to accomodate taller vegetables. The double wires make it sturdy, but remains flexible. It's made so as not to rip or tear row covers. I'll be buying more of these.

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I use mine to support amaryllis and the like in window boxes. The strip bends easily to form a very sturdy but unobtrusive support.

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I bought these here years ago. I am so glad you have them back. The best hoops ever made!!!!