Category: Poly Tunnel

It’s looking increasingly likely that 2015 will be remembered in Scotland as the year of fried green tomatoes and chutney.

Still working away.

Summer hasn’t been kind so far and the tomatoes are in desperate need of the sun.

Still lots of plans and as ever the season marches on.

Saturday morning I went seed and plant shopping.

Sunday wasn’t too much fun, I went to B&Q ( A DIY chain) for a few things in what started off as glorious sunshine.

So at B&Q I asked for directions to the water butts as I didn’t fancy hiking up the hill every time I needed some water.

They had 1 water butt left in the size I wanted, but it was a bit bashed up and without a tap or a lid. Undeterred, I found the lady who had directed me to the farthest reaches of the garden centre. Wait here she says and returns with a colleague 20 mins later.

Off they go again (it’s now raining heavily btw and the garden section is outside). Another 30 mins and they return with a complete water butt, I joked that I didn’t want it any more, but quickly said that I did as they were not looking too amused at this point.

So armed with the water butt all I had to get were some pots and saucers. They had plenty of plant pots but no saucers. I left with the water butt, slightly damp and disheartened alas without any plant pots.

I called into a local Garden centre on my way home to find they had plenty of saucers, but only 6 pots of the size I needed. Unfortunately I was on a time limit so grabbed the 6 pots and saucers and gave up for the day as it was now freezing cold, windy and still raining.

So today a (bank holiday), I’ve been in the poly tunnel.

I’ve planted some peas, onions, spring onions, turnip, various herbs (basil, dill etc), radishes and some mixed lettuce plants. A lot of this could have been grown outside, but as the season is moving on rapidly and I haven’t built any raised beds outside I thought I’d use the space in the poly tunnel.

Also on the walkway I put down some newspaper and covered with wood chippings. I’ve also potted up the plants purchased on Saturday: 3 tomato plants, a cucumber plant and 3 chilli plants (note the name of the chilli plants “Apache” 🙂 .

Poly tunnel cover

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Sometimes I wonder if this will ever be finished, I’m certain it will be.

Build a poly tunnel in a weekend they said…

Poly tunnel progress:

The weather hasn’t been kind, hence the delays.
Also there have been a few other obstacles:

So another week passes, got to finish the shoring for the poly tunnel before putting it up.
The weather is almost nice now, but the past week has been 2 or 3 inches of snow every day.

Happy Easter!

Again the weather hasn’t been too nice .
That said, getting there slowly.
Hopefully next weekend will see the poly tunnel installed.

Note the chicken wire!

This is mainly poly tunnel related, but everything should fall into place soon.