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Originally Posted by JRinPA
64" is what I have used, and to stretch them to 4ft wide bed, I need to ziptie a pair of them together to make a big hoop that can be wide yet sunk deep.
If you have good tilth I would buy them/make them longer, and just sink them deeper when you don't need the width. My brother ordered some this year and I advised the longer version.
If you only need a narrow span, you lay the hoops in at angle to the bed edge to retain height but decrease width.
I usually use two crossed and ziptied at each row end, I call it castling, so I can pull the row cover fairly tight without pulling that farthest hoop back toward me.
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Thanks for the tips, JR. By shoving them in deeper and crossing longer hoops at an angle to support the covering, longer hoops can be used on more narrow strips and thus eliminate the need for two different length of hoops.