Corey, you should try using #9 wire for your hoops. It is easy to work with and easily cut. It probably won't handle a snow load but I don't think you get much of that, right? You can get a fifty foot roll at the box stores fairly inexpensive.
tveguy, I use cattle panels and love 'em. I use them as trellises in the garden (peas, beans, even tying tomatoes to them) and just wire them to t-posts stuck in the ground. They're great!
I've also bent them (step on them and pull up to your desired curvature) and used to cover the boxed beds with or even out in the row garden over plants I want to either shade or block from insect or critter activity.
Around here they are usually 4ft X 16ft.
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