poly-tunnel, greenhouse or willow tunnel

[Shirley]

that is very interesting - thnx for the pics hedgie! makes it much easier to work out how to do it.

[wulf]

I've got some mini-polytunnels for my garden, which I bought last year. I found them a bit of a pain to move around (for example, lifting up and replacing late at night when on a slug hunting mission) so I was struck when I saw a polytunnel on a frame at RHS Rosemoor earlier this month. I've now done some experiements with adapting the idea to my garden with the materials available: for more pictures, click the image below:



Wulf

[Boots]

What is that Wulf? Is it a worm farm? Very unusual and much deeper than our raised beds. Blew up the pic and got really jealous about the soil you have in those giant drawers... Gorgeous.

I dunno about the poly tunnels. I figure they would just be sweat tunnels here, but might be good to keep the chooks off things if we replaced the plastic with netting or shade cloth maybe.

Stared down Sarria Street for ages. It is so hard to grasp that close living. Do cars drive down there? Can't hardly even imagine a hack fitting down there.

And what's with the high rise cemetery???? You serious? It's up in the air? Cannot imagine that at all. Tis freaking me out actually.... it's not like they have returned to the earth really, is it? Or been set upon the wind, as some other request. What is under them, then? Shops?

[wulf]

It was really an excuse to hide a lot of the rubble from improving the path down the side of our house! Also, the intention was to get it to an easy level to work on and also, by raising it up, get a bit more light (the garden is north facing - round this side of the globe that means the house blocks most of the direct sunlight).

Across the top is just a little plastic polytunnel - not a wormery although I've got plenty of those little chaps in the soil (bless 'em!). It does help warm the soil here - again, the value of that depends on your climate, and netting might be a better solution for your patch.

As far as high-rise cemeteries, I think it's to do with having family areas in the graveyards. In the UK, we might say, "Son, when I die, all this will be yours" but I guess that in Spain they like to say "Son, when you die, you can have the top flat on the left"!

Wulf

[Millymollymandy]

Thanks Wulf, you've given me some ideas! I covered a long row of seedlings with a regular plastic tunnel over hoops but it kept blowing off despite trying to hold it down with loads of big stones. Seems it would be best to attach it to a wooden base and divide it up into metre long sections. However then my problem would be where to store them when not in use.

[wulf]

You could always take the plastic off each winter for storing flat; the frames could probably sit in a corner somewhere.

Wulf