Polytunnel: Day Three

And on the third day we fitted the cover! It has taken four people three very long days of very hard work, but we now have a polytunnel! Ok, we still have some work to do, like fitting the doors, building some more raised beds, installing the irrigation system, and more. But nevertheless, we have a polytunnel! With great thanks to Gavin and Bernie for all their help and hard work.

Polytunnel: Day Two

By the end of another long day, we had managed to fit all of the internal fittings, plus the door frames. Looking good and almost ready to fit the cover.

Polytunnel: Day One

After four people working hard for a full 12 hour day, we have all of the foundation posts in, and the hoops up.

Foundations

The first thing to do was to dig the foundations. This was much harder work than we had anticipated. It took the whole of the first day, and involved sharpened spades, pickaxes, post hole borers, and power tools. We have some very hard ground in our garden.

We chose the option of Anchor plates and baserails rather than the traditional trenching method. This involved digging 14 square holes about 300mm x 300mm x 500mm deep into rather hard clay and stones.

Matters were further complicated by heavy showers and a mains outage for most of the afternoon. Luckily we had set up a barbeque for lunch and we used the remaining heat to brew tea for the workforce:

Gav : Foreman

Louise : Moral Officer

Bernie : Quality control

Jennifer : Digging

Jenny : Digging

Polytunnel

We have a polytunnel! We placed an order with First Tunnels and a week and a half later received fifteen packages. All we have to do now is to put it together...