I used to have a big rock garden with one hoop tunnel over a bed in winter. Like Pam, I put ropes over it, but I secured them to tree anchors screwed into the soil. You can leave the anchors in all the time though they can be a trip hazard. My bulb house is a big commercial, metal-framed greenhouse with a solid roof but just wire mesh sides. Over-engineered to resist wind, but not heated. The remark about covers blowing off referred to sheets of frost barrier that I have tried laying over the plants. Jane McGary, heatless in Portland. On 1/13/2024 9:29 AM, Pamela Harlow wrote: > Jane, > > It's bleak up in Seattle, as well. I keep perennials and some bulbs in > more than a dozen big hoop-tunnel structures on the ground and four > more on long tables. Usually I can keep the plastic and tarps attached > with garden clips, but wind makes the plastic billow and pops the > clips off. The solution is rope looped over the tunnel and secured to > the table legs or, on the ground, to heavy objects. Yesterday, the > challenge was finding heavy objects that were not already frozen to > the ground. I don't know what your structure is like, but perhaps rope > will help you. I fear we're all going to learn a lot this winter. Good > luck to you. > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…