I’m building a Polytunnel.

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Comfrey bed for home made fertiliser

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Elephant Garlic bed I planted last November

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Connected a tap to polytunnel fed from the IBC tanks and pump and buried the water pipe properly underground.

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New potato bed….I grew potatoes in three external beds last year so I’ll use these beds for some cabbages, peas etc….This new bed is filled with home made compost….Im guessing I have around 2 tonnes of it in total…

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Grapevine to plant into this bed….Bought it for £2.50 and it looked dead….but overwintered it’s in the tunnel and it’s springing to life..

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Compost

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more compost

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Browns to add to grass cutting for more compost

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More Browns

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Aspragus

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Strawberry patch

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New apple tree cuttings I’ve taken off the apple trees

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Tatts

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Strawberry in the roof

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herbs coming back

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One of the 7 compost bins

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spinach cut back to a stump last winter and it’s back again….

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Tiny Gooseberry plant from a mates garden

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more strawberry for roof

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Looks good. Impressed by how much you have going. I have tried strawberries in gutters, I found it very difficult to keep them alive in polytunnel just not enough solids to prevent drying out. I bought Ultra Hi Flow Gutter and put them outside and that worked much better as you have nearly 8 times the cross sectional area.
 
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Looks good. Impressed by how much you have going. I have tried strawberries in gutters, I found it very difficult to keep them alive in polytunnel just not enough solids to prevent drying out. I bought Ultra Hi Flow Gutter and put them outside and that worked much better as you have nearly 8 times the cross sectional area.

Yeah I hear you there. I will probably just dig a trench in one of the beds outside and slide them out all in one go….

I’ll be doing this with method with peas… and just slide them out into a trench…@ 4mins 40

 
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I see your strawberries have flowers on in the pictures, when did they start to flower and how warm is it in the polytunnel? Is it heated?

Mine are outside, so not expecting them to start flowering until late May, but suprised how early yours have flowered!
 
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I see your strawberries have flowers on in the pictures, when did they start to flower and how warm is it in the polytunnel? Is it heated?

Mine are outside, so not expecting them to start flowering until late May, but suprised how early yours have flowered!

Currently can reach 100F but these temps are controlled by air flow and fans….It’s not heated…Strawberries started to flower couple of weeks ago…
 
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