Andy Mckee, Mark Gatter

The Polytunnel Handbook (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive guide to all aspects of polytunnel usage, from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards.

A polytunnel, high tunnel or hoop house, can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, from crispy salads and fresh vegetables in the dead of winter to juicy melons and mouth-watering grapes in high summer. But once you've decided to invest in a polytunnel, there are many questions to be answered...

Do you need planning permission? What are the different sizes and types you can buy? Where should you put it, and how do you put it up? What can you use it for, how do you look after it, and what are the likely problems?

The Polytunnel Handbook looks at all aspects of using a polytunnel, from planning to harvesting. The book features a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are put up and maintained, and also detailed instructions on building a polytunnel from scratch for DIY enthusiasts. There are also chapters on developing healthy soil and preventing pests, and a jargon-free guide to the range of often mystifying accessories that many tunnel retailers offer.

Learn how to keep your polytunnel productive in every season with this brilliant guide

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907448065
• Artikelnr.: 38368042

Autorenporträt

Andy McKee was raised in Belfast, where he first grew vegetables with his father at the age of five. After an early career in pharmacy, he pursued his interest in vegetable gardening, and has grown in situations ranging from a seventeenth-storey window box to guerrilla gardening in the middle of a Christmas tree plantation. Andy lives with his wife and family in rural Dorset, where they are entirely self-sufficient in vegetables. Andy also helped to set up the Transition Town initiative for Dorchester, and has contributed regularly to the blog section of the Ecologist Online.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Planning your purchase
The big day
Self-build tunnels
The tunnel environment
Planting through the year
Preventing pests
Thinking outside the tunnel
Afterword
Appendix 1: Further information and suppliers
Appendix 2: Further reading
Appendix 3: Glossary