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Polytunnel - can someone recommend me one please

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Ariela · 21/10/2018 22:47

Not sure what to get, we have masses of room so not sure how big to get either! We have a veg plot about 15ft x 60ft, and a separate potato plot much bigger than that (didn't buy any potatoes last year), and a 8x12 greenhouse, but really need more room under cover.

There seems to be a lot of choice. Can anyone recommend a make? Must be sturdy as the prevailing wind comes from behind the house.
Thank you.

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Trethew · 23/10/2018 16:37

I have a 28 x 14 tunnel from First Polytunnels. Opted for crop bars, storm bracers and the slightly thicker (35mm) hoops as it’s an exposed site. It’s WONDERFUL

rabbitsandrhubarb · 23/10/2018 16:46

Another vote for First Polytunnels, with crop bars, storm bracers, thicker hoops and concreted into ground as on a windy site. I think ours is 36 x 16 feet. We have had it up for I think 11 years, still with the original cover (one or two small holes made by accident in it, repaired with the special tape. Get doors at both ends so you can open/shut one or both depending on temperature and wind, we also have the ventilation pipe running along the room.

We grow masses of tomatoes (picked a large black trug full over the weekend they usually carry on until November), peppers, aubergines, chilis, cucumbers, flowers (alstroemeria and chrysanths,) and start all our seedlings for the veg garden in it until ready to plant out.

We have a raised bed system - one big bed down the middle, narrower one on each side with square beds at each corner, pathways covered with weed suppressant membrane and bark chip, plus we have a solar powered watering system - we catch rainwater from a nearby shed room which goes into 2 x 2500 litre tanks, and from there into a cattle trough with the solar powered drippers fed from this - saves hours of watering on tomatoes.

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