Our Polytunnel Ally

Extend your growing season, says Kim Stoddart

- Kim Stoddart

This month I’m writing about a polytunnel growing course that is literally close to home, being run as it is from my own smallholding /training gardens near to New Quay in beautiful Ceredigion in West Wales. Borne out of popular demand (people kept asking me to run a dedicated course on the subject last year), the day covers everything you could possibly need to know to get great results growing under plastic.

With increasing weather extremes unfortunately part of our future, polytunnel growing really is a powerful ally in the battle against climate change. As well as delightfully extending the growing season, when you know how, these tunnels boost growing efforts no end and enable year round produce and shelter whatever the weather.