With all the information you need to use your polytunnel to its full potential, this book shows make the most of this precious covered space. It includes a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, and a sowing and harvesting calendar to help with planning. You'll be harvesting fresh crops all year round—sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots, and celeriac in early February; and salad leaves right through the winter. Even during the “hungry gap” you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, peas, tender cabbages, beetroot, and more with the help of this essential guide.
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Review
“This beautifully presented book covers every possible aspect of polytunnel growing. It will give kitchen gardeners the expertise and confidence they need to get the very best from their tunnel.” —Benedict Vanheems, Grow It! magazine
About the Author
Mark Gatter began growing vegetables while homesteading in north California in the early 1980s, and has been a gardener ever since. He relies on a polytunnel to keep fresh food on the table through the winter. Andy McKee uses his polytunnel to keep his family entirely self-sufficient in vegetables. They are the authors of The Polytunnel Handbook.
Description:
With all the information you need to use your polytunnel to its full potential, this book shows make the most of this precious covered space. It includes a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, and a sowing and harvesting calendar to help with planning. You'll be harvesting fresh crops all year round—sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots, and celeriac in early February; and salad leaves right through the winter. Even during the “hungry gap” you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, peas, tender cabbages, beetroot, and more with the help of this essential guide.
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Review
“This beautifully presented book covers every possible aspect of polytunnel growing. It will give kitchen gardeners the expertise and confidence they need to get the very best from their tunnel.” —Benedict Vanheems, Grow It! magazine
About the Author
Mark Gatter began growing vegetables while homesteading in north California in the early 1980s, and has been a gardener ever since. He relies on a polytunnel to keep fresh food on the table through the winter. Andy McKee uses his polytunnel to keep his family entirely self-sufficient in vegetables. They are the authors of The Polytunnel Handbook.