How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel: All year round

by Mark Gatter, Andy McKee

An easy-to-follow, practical guide to growing crops year-round in your polytunnel.

Are you using your polytunnel, also known as high tunnel or hoop house, to its full potential? If so 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; salad leaves right through the winter. Even in the 'hungry gap' you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, peas, tender cabbages, beetroot and more.

How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel has all the information you need to make the most of this precious covered space, including a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, including the 'hungry gap', and a handy sowing and harvesting calendar to help with planning.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Food

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is written specifically with the UK climate in mind, but there is still a lot of highly relevent information, including very detailed instructions for planting, caring for, and harvesting vegetables in a hoophouse. These are organized alphabetically in the second section of the book, which makes it a handy reference guide.

[Raven Moonstone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative and easy to follow the information given.