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Originally posted by Wil Chips Wil Chips wrote:

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Originally posted by Wil Chips Wil Chips wrote:

How durable are those poly tunnels GPR?

i.e. wind resistant.


We have had two tunnels. First one in Kent for 6 years and this one here in Rhydcymerau since 2019 - never a problem. I have to say this latest tunnel was superbly engineered ( British). Its quite large 35 foot x 14 foot & has inground anchors every 5 foot, & a bracing structure both horizontally and at each corner angle.

Diane & I installed it & had some fun getting the one piece cover on - any small gust of wind & its back to the start!!!!! If you want any further info on supplier just PM me. 


Brilliant....we have a home in Hill Mountain...clue to my question is in the name!

Will definitely reach out when the day comes ( home for good in the Summer).

Have a feeling I may have played cricket there many years ago. Lovely area of Pembs., Losing our intrepid African correspondent is a blow but welcome home Wil in advance. If you are around the Lampeter/Llandeilo area call in for a coffee and see it first hand. 

Would you believe it ??? I'm in that area soon. I'll call in, cheaper thatn buying a coffee. Do you supply biscuits as well ??LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL

You are more than welcome. We can have coffee & biscuits in the polytunnel - heating in the house is off see - bloody expensive.Ouch
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I've just put my first crop of rice in my garden as it's raining all the time Cry
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Quick tip while fresh on my mind. Slugs/snails. We save up our egg shells, batch dry them out when using our oven and then crush & store. They are very handy to scatter around tender plants which attract slugs/snails. 
About 3 or 4 years ago, we had an infestation of large (giant really) orange coloured slugs. They were everywhere and ate everything.  It was just for one summer and haven't seen them since.  Anyone else had them?
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Busy time of the year if you have a polytunnel as lots of Spring planting veg can be sown that little bit earlier. Currently we have onions, leeks, beetroot, broad beans, spring onions & cabbage plants showing through ready for onward planting in our raised beds later when spring finally arrives. Have some lovely looking tomato plants in our heated propagator - they will be ready to plant out in the polytunnel in a  couple of weeks. They will be followed by cucumbers & peppers. 

At the moment we are harvesting autumn planting broccoli, lettuce & spring onions with some cauliflowers ready in a couple of weeks. Our first early potatoes planted last week are starting to show through. Happy days. 
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Picked our first asparagus of the season yesterday. First time tried in a polytunnel - a good 4 weeks earlier than outside here.
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As a victim of jet lag I was watching a piece on the 'salad crisis' in the UK this morning. i thought it was just a short term supply chain fracture, but it's far more than that.

Growing your own just gained momentum.
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Originally posted by Wil Chips Wil Chips wrote:

As a victim of jet lag I was watching a piece on the 'salad crisis' in the UK this morning. i thought it was just a short term supply chain fracture, but it's far more than that.

Growing your own just gained momentum.


Higher fuel costs are hitting British growers very hard. I guess its going to be veg and salad crops outside their normal seasons which will suffer the most. 
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And don't forget Brexit , it's so much harder for European suppliers to negotiate the rats nest of paperwork that now exists that didn't before 
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And don't forget Brexit , it's so much harder for European suppliers to negotiate the rats nest of paperwork that now exists that didn't before 

Bit of a red herring in all honesty. I have been exporting to Europe for the last 15 years & whilst the paperwork since Brexit has increased it is no more than a small piece of extra work. I accept food stuffs are more tightly controlled but once the producer and freight company have completed the first shipment the prototype paperwork is then in place & things should run pretty smoothly. 

Of course if a producer in Spain is suffering from poor growing conditions like last Autumn apparently then the reduced amount of products will be shipped closer to home. That is just economics and nothing to do with the demon Brexit. 
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minus 1C in the polytunnel last night. Golden rule for tunnel users - daily weather/temperature checks. 
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Hadn't noticed this before, I post on a couple or so gardening forums and started doing the videos primarily for newish gardeners, it helped with my re-hab after cancer surgery too.
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Originally posted by tigerburnie tigerburnie wrote:

Hadn't noticed this before, I post on a couple or so gardening forums and started doing the videos primarily for newish gardeners, it helped with my re-hab after cancer surgery too.

Cheers Burnie. Hope you well on the road to recovery. We have a growing & gardening thread along with a cooking thread. look forward to your contributions. 
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Originally posted by GPR - Rochester GPR - Rochester wrote:

Originally posted by tigerburnie tigerburnie wrote:

Hadn't noticed this before, I post on a couple or so gardening forums and started doing the videos primarily for newish gardeners, it helped with my re-hab after cancer surgery too.

Cheers Burnie. Hope you well on the road to recovery. We have a growing & gardening thread along with a cooking thread. look forward to your contributions. 
Good luck with your re-hab and post op recovery. May it be given a big boost this weekend by an away win in Leinster’s home ground for big games.

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Early potatoes planted a month ago are now a foot tall (300mm - Oracle); planted the outdoor earlies on Monday/Tuesday then see the forecast for frost next week - fleece & straw at the ready!!!!!
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Thanks for thinking of me LOL....moving to olden next Tuesday , no potatoes just more snow and blizzards expected ...I can't remember the last time I walked on soil not snow ..I can empathise with reindeer LOL
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Minus 1 in tunnel last night. Unhappy
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