I love my polytunnel.
Not perhaps for the reason you think though.
Not for the growing so much, but for the lovely sound the rain and wind makes on the polythene in the winter and early spring months. In fact it’s comforting for most of the year. Well, until about late May. Then I avoid it after 7am until 7pm or maybe later. It is too damn hot.
Tunnels and greenhouses aren’t perfect but they do extend your growing space. For a long time, I didn’t have a greenhouse or polytunnel. And I didn’t know how to use the cold frame I eventually got; I put it where the midday sun beat down on it hard, frying all my precious seedlings.
In 2015, when I set up ‘Anna’s Flower Farm’, I’d grown few annuals; for a couple of years there was only my back garden and certainly nothing to protect seedlings.
When I speak to visitors or anyone enquiring about growing cut flowers, on the usual comments is that they ‘don’t have a greenhouse’.
I tell them what I am going to tell you.
Don’t let that stop you
