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Nortenergy - thank you for coming to the topic and providing info. As with my polytunnel (I am in Cunningsburgh), you have the path down the middle of the tunnel which is where the tunnel is at its tallest. I was originally toying with the idea of having the path at a dog-leg so that one side of the...

Hi there again. I didn't actually build the polytunnel. I got a local building guy to put it up for me and he based it upon others in the area. I am thus unable to be technical in any way. There are round wooden fence-posts within the pipes at strategic points and the wooden frame of the tunnel is b...

I am not how the piping is referred to elsewhere. Up here it is used as part of the salmon cages found in these parts. They are known as salmon feed pipes and I am afraid that I can't provide any more info. Perhaps, I could look up one of the salmon companies and provide you a name and number for yo...

A good allotmenteer throws very little away. Well done ! Down south, I used to make free cold frames. I used to drive around the neighbourhood to see if anyone was having double glazing fitted and the house-owner and the contractor were usually happy for me to take the old window frames, often doubl...

Thanks, chiltony.

I was born in Hackney and worked in London, commuting from St Albans, until we moved here in April 2008.
Like being on a different planet here.

Thanks - I'm here to stay!

Green Aura - It is freezing and has been snowing here so, having almost frozen my fingers off planting out the last of my garlic this morning, I won't be going outside again today. However, I will look at one of the polycarbonate sheets tomorrow and write down anything that might be on one of the la...

Good morning! As promised, here are 4 more pics for you to look at. One shows me looking smug and happy in the first few weeks or so of having the tunnel available. Another shows it completed from the inside whilst the other two are pics from it being constructed. I hope from these that you will get...

Spider8 - even more snow coming your way now!

I will be sending more pics to this thread to show what the tunnel looks like - probably tomorrow morning now.

Hello Ina. My wife and I have joined two gardening groups since we arrived here and that has been very useful to us. One of the best aspects of belonging to them are the annual garden visits where we go round to see other residents' gardens in various parts of the Shetland mainland (where we live) a...

spider8 wrote:Howdy neighbour A warm welcome from Orkney!

Hello there.

I was just digging the tatties up and the snow made me come in.
It is heading your way !

Green Aura - I am not a DIY-er at all and had to get someone in to build the polytunnel for me. The polytunnel is built to a fairly tried and tested method around these parts and is built using recycled salmon feed pipes that are available here. They were bent over and cemented into the ground with ...

[img]Many thanks for the greetings. Green Aura - yes, the growing season is very short here and is some 6 weeks or so later at the beginning and about a month earlier at the end. Not great and it takes some getting used to. Our local agricultural show, the biggest here in Shetland, is always around ...

Greetings, everybody ! I took early retirement, from commuting daily into London, in February 2008 and moved here with my wife and our cat from leafy St Albans just 2 months later. Down south, I grew lots of fruit and we were also virtually self-sufficient in veggies from my 2 allotments and the bac...