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Category Archives: Polytunnel
Due to the rain today
I have been contemplating automated irrigation for the polytunnels and greenhouses. There are some cheap kits on Amazon these days, but I’m way less than convinced that they’ll flow sufficient water for my needs and after stumbling around trying to … Continue reading
Errr, what?!
I’ve just been idly looking at the cheap polytunnel that I’m turning into a polycrub on Amazon. Not sure why. My brain is just in random mode at the moment. In the details for the 6m x 3m polytunnel, it … Continue reading
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No dig diary, 24th January 2026
I’ve just been out watering the polytunnel. Not something I’d usually do much of during Winter, but having seen how dry the soil was when the rabbit tried to excavate it, I shall be watering every day for a while … Continue reading
Ah’m huntin’ wabbits!
Not much hunting needed, if I’m honest. I went into the polytunnel this lunchtime having watered in there a couple of days ago and found this: I suspect they’d enlarged a mole run. I don’t know if that’s the kind … Continue reading
No dig diary, 12th January 2026
“Peppers propagating!”, I whispered as I tapped the empty packets with my dibber, before using it to cast “Expecto Capsicum!” over the trays of newly-sown seeds… All my pepper varieties are now sown, though thanks to other things that needed … Continue reading
The peppers in the polytunnel have not enjoyed the cold
Not sure these are going to make it to next season… On the other hand, these ones in Frankenstein’s greenhouse are still looking pretty good.
Memory Lane, 23rd February 2023: Winter salads are still going
Straight from the polytunnel. Not quite as much as we’d like perhaps, but it’s just enough for three people and it’s lovely to be eating something so fresh and colourful at this time of the year.
Memory Lane, 21st December 2022: Winter salads
Winter salads in the melon house and polytunnel, looking pretty healthy. With a bit of luck these should keep us going until Spring when we have salads growing out in the main plot once again.
No dig diary, 8th April 2024
I last weeded the big polytunnel and the greenhouses in January and today decided it was time to do them again, removing the Winter salads that are already starting to flower at the same time — the leaves become tough … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 12th November 2022: This really is the last of the peppers
Today I picked everything that was left in the polytunnel, regardless of whether it was ripe or not. Nothing much useful is going to happen from this point on, so leaving them will just mean they start rotting. Some gorgeous … Continue reading