After along wait because of frozen ground and bad back, work really started on the last week end in January.
I should make it clear that due to continuing issues with my back, I can only work for 30 minutes or so and then need to take a break. So whilst building my poly tunnel will [...]
4 raised beds and some grave paths occupy the present site for my polytunnel. The beds still have some winter crops that will need to be either sacrificed or harvested.
Each raised bed has 280 litres of “Mels Mix” (1/3 Compost, 1/3 Peat and 1/3 Vermiculite), which needed to be moved and stored. Some has gone [...]
My polytunnel kit arrived today which was the good news.
As the kit was unloaded I was told by the driver that “some of the packs” had split and that I had my 13 packages. After a basic check the alumimum rails were missing.
I rung first tunnels to let them know because it was Friday afternoon [...]
Had a phone call from Frist Tunnels to say that my polytunnel will be arriving tommorow (Friday 4 December). That was fast only 5 days. Shame the weather has been bad and haven’t prepared the base area yet.
Also had a long chat with Autopot and my auto pot kit will be arriving next week. Alot [...]
My new polytunnel will replace 4 4ft by 8ft raised beds that’s 4*4*8 = 4*32= 128 square feet of growing area.
The poly tunnel is 10ft*20ft so covers 200 square feet. Taking into account a 2ft wide path way down the middle of the polytunnel 2*20ft = 40 square feet that in theory leaves 200 sq [...]
After checking out a number of polytunnel websites and weighing up options and costs, I decided that I would go with aluminium bars instead of wood to help reduce long-term maintenance. The following Polytunnel kit was ordered:
Polytunnel Size Width – 10ft Length – 20ft
Thermal Anti Fog Cover – “Thermal Anti [...]
Ever since I started building my vegetable garden (based on square foot garden principles), I was looking at a poly tunnel. The plot was laid out with two rows of 8ft by 4ft raised beds with about 2 feet between them.
The more vegetables that I could grow under cover the better as I wanted to [...]