Poly-Tunnel Gardening

First ever polytunnel crop! But better still aubergines are growing like mad and tomatoes have flowers on them. Wish I could say the chilli peppers I grew from seed are thriving they look pathetic but maybe they'll catch up.

I still have a few Pumpkins (edible ones) and squashes to plant at the Alottment, so I may temp erect this new tunnel over them to aid growing/ripening of them before moving it in Spring to its final position. Steve...

I did say the prices I quoted were based on 50M length. Doesn;t surprise me that a company selling scaffolders debris netting doesn't sell by the metre!You can have 8.9M of Enviromesh, delivered, for the same price as 20M of Debris Netting (by my calculations)We cover all sorts of things...

Oh it has peach leaf curl @On the Levels ! But the last couple of years I have given it a spray of fungicide just before bud break, and I'm ruthless about disposing of the infected leaves even if it looks a bit bald afterwards. They go in my metal incinerator which is only for that and Japanese...

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I understand your thinking but all the paths are higher on the whole allotment. However the plots above mine were skimmed of weeds with a JCB before I got my plots by a lazy plot holder but the plot in question wasn't in the equation.Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

not sure about freezing them as to what nutrients you lose but I have a food dehydrator, which hopefully will give me Sun dried Tom's all year

Of course it did Thanks for asking. Unlike my neighbours 2yr old similar tunnel, they didnt use heat tape on the metal tubes and first summer saw the cover damaged in many places where the cover met metal, it needed lots of clear repair tape patches. This winter they had to replace the whole...

Misting now ordered.Like a lot of things, the original idea has grown a bit.The system will be 1m misting over the heated sand bed and then 3m over the benches. I'll be able to turn off the benches in 1m segments and turn off the section over the heated bed.

And so you should be, nice tidy job!Happy growing..Steve...

Update ! The joiner came out this morning and measured everything up for my greenhouse/polyhouse. There's a possibility that he may build one bigger than 8' x 6', so that's even better, it could be 10 or even 12 feet long. His quote for 2 days work was very reasonable too at £200, and he's the...

Yes, I have found that too, but as a specialist forum they are very knowledgeable on Veg.But folk here are pretty knowledgeable on Veg too, and there are folk here who know about other aspects of gardening too Ask about growing Flowers on a Vegetable forum and they'll laugh you out of town!

Leucojum it is only slabbed for the fist 5ft and down the middle the rest is 6" of white stone chippings on a heavy duty membrane, sprinkler system down the r/h side, the vent system when closed isn't a perfect seal but when I fitted the cover I left a 6" overhang on the outside which helps to...

should have been 5 seed but only 4 in my pkt.,I looked this item up on T&M's site and it states 4 seeds in the packet, so it's possible you've mixed the seed up with something else, which you did say at the start might have happened.

We did build our own over 20 years ago and it was a job worth doing as the crops over all those years were great. Last week though we had a new tunnel but this time erected by the company. We dismantled the falling apart polythene and then offered the frame to locals. Had 4 people interested so...

That would be interesting!

Why have the scallies got him ?

Take a look at northern polytunnels cantilevered roof vents for some diy vent inspiration The best way to deal with condensation is to convince the humid air to condense somewhere it cant drip and cause problems. Better still, somewhere it`ll do a bit of good. Drying out the soil is the last...

I've just viewed this video by Charles Dowding - see from approximately 11 minutes onwards.His observations seem to match my own. Looks like it could be due to lack of air movement inside the PT.

I used an old wood greenhouse end frame to make a ready made door, works well and I can lock it. Plus a roll of mesh to make a barrier for cats when door is open in hot weather,