Are you using your polytunnel to its full potential? If so, not only will it provide you with tomatoes and cucumbers in the summer, you'll also be harvesting fresh crops all year round, even when the ground outside is frozen. You could be harvesting sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots and celeriac in early February; salads leaves right through the winter; and even in the 'hungry gap' you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, broad beans, peas, tender cabbages, cauliflower, beetroot and more. How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel has all the information you need to make the most of this precious covered space, including: A crop-by-crop guide to the growing year; A dedicated chapter on growing for the 'hungry gap'; A cropping chart to help with planning; Your tunnel's first year - timely advice for new tunnel gardeners.
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Andy and Mark are fast becoming Britain's polytunnel gurus. This is an Excellent sequel to The Polytunnel Handbook, and will show you how to make productive use of every square inch of space. --Simon McEwan, Editor, County Smallholding
This beautifully presented book covers every possible aspect of polytunnel growing. It will give kitchen gardeners the expertise and confidence they need to get the very best from their tunnel. --Benedict Vanheems, Editor, Grow It!
This beautifully presented book covers every possible aspect of polytunnel growing. It will give kitchen gardeners the expertise and confidence they need to get the very best from their tunnel. --Benedict Vanheems, Editor, Grow It!
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Mark Gatter began growing vegetables in the early eighties. He's a firm advocate of an organic, raised-bed approach and uses a combination of a polytunnel and outside beds at his home in South Wales, to grow vegetables all the year round. Andy McKee began gardening with his father at the age of five. He lives with his wife and family in rural Dorset where they are entirely self-sufficient in organic vegetables using their polytunnel and a modest outdoor plot.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By Berry Kenny
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A comprehensive guide to growing food plants in a polytunnel, season by season, which also is relevant to greenhouses. Deals with a large range of plants in considerable detail, how deal with pests and diseases and advice, which may seem obvious when read, but is not covered in most gardening books. For example, avoiding the use of chemicals which will build up in the soil in the absence of rainfall etc. to leach them out, and opening the tunnel for a short time on winter mornings to let the cold air out. This book has opened my eyes and I am looking forward to a much more productive 2011.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Some years ago I bought a book "Four Season Harvest" by Eliot Coleman it was good but based mainly on American climate. I thought then there should be a UK based guide. Our climate is so different, though somewhere in the whole of the US it may have a British similarity. This is that book, it is based on all aspects of Polytunnel gardening. It will inspire you to get the most out of the wonderful microclimate that they give us. It also covers the idea of all year produce not just a few Toms & Cues in the summer. It is the guide you will refer to over and over, month by month as you are encouraged to plan and grow for the whole year. Try a few new vegatables and cut down on those dire supermaket vegatables. The varieties breed to be robust enough to survive packaging instead of FLAVOUR. I have had a polytunnel for 9 years and it has envigourated me to make this this best yet. Worth every penny, get growing!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By willow
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A fantastic book for a new poly tunnel owner, clear guidance from erecting and when best to do it ,to growing your first crops, cant wait to get started
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Great
Bought this to supplement my new polytunnel and it has become a bible of reference. I would highly recommend it.
Published 19 hours ago by Mr. T. M. Downie
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Very good book for the absolute beginer and intemediate level
Very good book goes into what to grow and when (climate change may move the dates slightly), pests and more good read very informative to get you started.
Published 17 days ago by Mr. L. G. Gibbins
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Really helpful
Found this book full of helpful tips and really easy to to read and take in I would recommend it to any one getting a polytunnel for the first time
Published 20 days ago by Richard
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Useful, but short on some details
I bought this book to find out more about growing under plastic. I've grown fruit and vegetables for decades but I've found the recent very cold, dry springs and wet summers of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Meg Patents
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Handy Book
I like this book. It's very informative and nicely lade out. It's a great companion if you have just invested in your first poly tunnel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Adrian Davis
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It's a good 'un !!
this product does what it says on the cover,and it does it well....If you want to grow your own food in a poly...this is the book to have!!! Recommended.
Published 1 month ago by A W Smith
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Mr green
This book for my girlfriend who getting a polytunnel soon the book is great a new book
She is read it now
She is read it now
Published 2 months ago by Vanboy
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For all polytunnel owners!
We have 2 polytunnels which are already very productive but this is a useful book. It is well written and helpfully organised.
Published 2 months ago by C. Stott
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Polytunnel Gardening
Another excellent book a must have if you are thinking about or own a Polytunnel for beginners and experts. Read more
Published 3 months ago by simon
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Highly suitable for amateurs.
I would recommend this to anyone.
Obviously written by an enthusiastic and hands-on vegetable grower for all-the-year round.
Vegetables, even in mid-winter.
Obviously written by an enthusiastic and hands-on vegetable grower for all-the-year round.
Vegetables, even in mid-winter.
Published 3 months ago by David Martin
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