Hoop house versus greenhouse???

A hoophouse is a greenhouse. You can heat it and start your plants in it or you can use beds directly on the floor and grow early/late crops or some combination of the two. A hoophouse is an easily built and inexpensive way to have alot of space for growing. We took ours down and only have our Starplate house right now but plan to build a much longer one this spring. We had benches in ours with growing beds underneath them. Will continue to use the small one with double plastic for starting plants and then move them on to the hoophouse which we won't have to heat as much. An excellent book on using a hoophouse to extend your growing seasons is Eliot Coleman's Four Season Harvest. Hint--don't build one too small as you will soon know the joy of being surrounded by plants when it is still cold and dreary outside --and there is always something new you just gotta try!! DEE