polytunnel and greenhouse

Choosing the Right Polytunnel for Your Garden

Choosing the Right Polytunnel for Your Garden

21/05/2025

A polytunnel is a game-changer for the home grower, and if you can afford the initial investment it will pay off in spades. However, trying to choose between th...

21/05/2025

The Best Crops to Grow in a Polytunnel

The Best Crops to Grow in a Polytunnel

21/03/2025

A polytunnel can really open up a world of growing possibilities, extending the growing season, providing extra shelter and increasing your chances of success w...

21/03/2025

How To Clean and Maintain Your Polytunnel

How To Clean and Maintain Your Polytunnel

13/02/2024

Cleaning: not the best fun in the world, but it has to be done. Fortunately a polytunnel doesn’t have to be cleaned too often. Once a year is generally suf...

13/02/2024

Essential Greenhouse Accessories

Essential Greenhouse Accessories

29/11/2023

It's one thing to have your greenhouse all set up, installed and ready to go for the new season. However an empty greenhouse is a bit like an empty house; you'r...

29/11/2023

​The Polytunnel in April

​The Polytunnel in April

19/04/2023

So, how is everyone feeling with the improvement in the weather? I for one am feeling pretty good about it. I don't know what the temperatures were like wh...

19/04/2023

Greenhouse Irrigation

Greenhouse Irrigation

23/03/2023

One of the key differences between growing plants inside and growing them outside in your garden is that indoor plants don’t benefit from rainfall. As such...

23/03/2023

How Do You Use A Greenhouse (for Beginners)?

How Do You Use A Greenhouse (for Beginners)?

21/03/2023

The greenhouse has a long and interesting history. Did you know that a proto-greenhouse structure was designed by the Romans to support Emperor Tiberius's...

21/03/2023

Polytunnel Pest Control

Polytunnel Pest Control

21/03/2023

When it comes to dealing with garden pests, the enclosed space of the polytunnel can be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, your crops are p...

21/03/2023

How To Secure A Polytunnel To the Ground

How To Secure A Polytunnel To the Ground

21/03/2023

When setting up your polytunnel, it's important to make sure that it's fixed securely to the ground. It's a long-term structure and you want it to be...

21/03/2023

How to grow in a greenhouse

How to grow in a greenhouse

21/03/2023

Whatever style of greenhouse you opt for - whether it’s a ‘lean-to’, a compact house or a larger one - it will open up new possibilities for you and extend...

21/03/2023

Polytunnel Ventilation

Polytunnel Ventilation

21/03/2023

Polytunnels are designed to draw in and retain heat, and they tend to do this job very well. This means that you will need a method of cooling your tunnel down...

21/03/2023

Should you open your greenhouse every day?

Should you open your greenhouse every day?

21/03/2023

Greenhouses are designed to draw in and capture heat. This is for the benefit of your plants, but it’s a blessing that can soon turn into a curse if you allow te...

21/03/2023

What Do I Need To Start an Unheated Greenhouse?

What Do I Need To Start an Unheated Greenhouse?

02/03/2023

A greenhouse can open up possibilities for you and extend your growing season. It mainly does this by increasing levels of heat and light: an effect brought abou...

02/03/2023

How to Clean a Greenhouse

How to Clean a Greenhouse

19/10/2022

While a greenhouse shouldn’t need to be cleaned quite as much as a 'human house', it is very important to schedule a good cleaning session once or twice...

19/10/2022

How To Prepare Ground For A Polytunnel

How To Prepare Ground For A Polytunnel

18/10/2022

Preparing your soil is an important step that shouldn’t be skipped when setting up your first polytunnel. Trying to do intensive digging or soil amendment...

18/10/2022

How To Fix a Hole in a Polytunnel

How To Fix a Hole in a Polytunnel

11/10/2022

Polytunnels are designed to be durable structures, and you can expect the polythene cover itself to last for a good 4-5 years before it needs replacing....

11/10/2022

What Is The Best Position For A Polytunnel?

What Is The Best Position For A Polytunnel?

17/08/2022

Where you position your polytunnel will ultimately depend on the space you have available, but there are some important factors to take into account. Good posit...

17/08/2022

Do I Need Planning Permission For A Polytunnel?

Do I Need Planning Permission For A Polytunnel?

15/08/2022

Generally speaking, you won’t need planning permission for a polytunnel that’s used to grow your own food in a domestic garden. There are some excep...

15/08/2022

Greenhouse or Polytunnel, Which To Choose?

Greenhouse or Polytunnel, Which To Choose?

15/06/2022

Greenhouses and polytunnels are both structures that allow for regulation of climate and enable you to grow a wider range of vegetables, fruits and plants than...

By Daniel
15/06/2022

What to Grow in the Polytunnel in Winter

What to Grow in the Polytunnel in Winter

17/08/2021

We had a number of questions recently on polytunnel growing: particularly whether polytunnels are worth the investment and whether it is true that they enable y...

By admin
17/08/2021

The Polytunnel in mid April 2021

The Polytunnel in mid April 2021

19/04/2021

This week I thought I would concentrate on the polytunnel or greenhouse as there is a lot to be done in April both in terms of sowing new seed and in potting on...

By admin
19/04/2021

Polytunnel Succession Planting Plan 2021

Polytunnel Succession Planting Plan 2021

18/02/2021

Regular readers will know that I included my outdoor garden succession planting plan in one of our January emails. I also said I would follow with my polytunnel...

By admin
18/02/2021

October 2020 in the Quickcrop Garden

October 2020 in the Quickcrop Garden

13/10/2020

While I am not a fan of of winter I do enjoy preparing for it. There is great satisfaction in harvesting and storing crops in October, protecting...

By admin
13/10/2020

What to Sow in February

What to Sow in February

08/02/2020

While we are now heading in the right direction in terms of day length, February is still a very cold month - with little we can sow or plant outside. There are...

By admin
08/02/2020

A guide to polytunnel irrigation

A guide to polytunnel irrigation

02/03/2018

This might seem like an odd time of year to talk about irrigation, but if you are thinking of adding a watering system to your polytunnel or greenhouse the...

By admin
02/03/2018

The Polytunnel in January

The Polytunnel in January

25/01/2017

While I do spend plenty of happy time in the garden in January there really isn't a whole lot you can do other than preparing things for the season ahead. In m...

By admin
25/01/2017

The Vegetable Garden in March 2016

The Vegetable Garden in March 2016

02/03/2016

This March I am starting a new monthly update project which is centered more around what I'm doing in my garden. This is because it's easier for me to write bu...

By admin
02/03/2016

A Beginner's Guide to Polytunnel Gardening

A Beginner's Guide to Polytunnel Gardening

10/03/2013

What is a Polytunnel? A polytunnel is an elongated, semi circular-shaped tunnel made out of polyethylene. They come in a wide variety of sizes, and they can be...

By admin
10/03/2013

The Polytunnel in September

The Polytunnel in September

10/09/2012

Unless you live in a part of the country with a unique and unreported special climate you will have experienced a pretty disappointing summer for growing fruit a...

By admin
10/09/2012