Growing crops in a commercial size polytunnel
I'm having great fun in my 12.5 mt long polytunnel. Not only I get to see my plants thrive in almost 39C during sunny days, but I fight some cute rabbits every day as they dig under the doors and destroy my cauliflower and boccoli plants!
I'm not a professional gardener or photographer, but I hope you will enjoy my basic photos of plant life in the hottest spot of my garden. You will also see that we captured a baby rabbit who was guilty of untold damage and a then we released it (he was sooo cuddly!)
But 2 weeks later, we caught him again and this time we released it in a park nearby (full of other rabbits, water etc) so he can eat plenty of produce - just not ours! A video is available on the bottom of this page.
The first night we moved the strawberries outdoors, they were not protected, and the morning after the rabbits had eaten most of the plants - leaves and all! Needless to say, we rushed to build a protected U-shaped cage which now houses about 40 plants.
Phew!
There are hundreds of wild strawberry plants in our garden anyway and they produce a wonderful array of tiny, and delicious berries.
So...Here is the guilty bunny!
Remember that the video of us cuddling him is below.
P.S. Eventually we bought a cage trap and by the end of August we caught and released SEVEN bunnies! Since then, we saw no more rabbits in the garden, fingers crossed...
Remember that the video of us cuddling him is below.
P.S. Eventually we bought a cage trap and by the end of August we caught and released SEVEN bunnies! Since then, we saw no more rabbits in the garden, fingers crossed...
This is how I grow lettuce and parsley: on the windowsill outside of my kitchen!
A bean plant
Sweetcorn!
Dandelion! This is an excellent cancer-fighting plant, a liver detox herb and an excellent snack for our guinea pigs. The flowers are delicious in smoothies, too.
Strawberry patch - before completion.
The inside of the polytunnel
Another awww moment - free bunny!
The bunny after the first release in the ditch
Potato plants!
Sunflowers are growing in the conservatory. The rabbits have chewed most of them off when in the polytunnel...
North side…beans and peas
More peas and beans
A lame attempt to save the broccoli from rodents!
Strawberry
Peas
Another view of the strawberry patch
Zucchini
Italian beans
Cauliflower?
Zucchini in flower
Tomato
Stevia in the conservatory!
Too hot in the poly…Stevia is an excellent sweetener
Spinach
Strawberry spinach (not too sweet but interesting, tasty fruits and leaves) - this plant self-seeds fast!
Bunny cuddling video!
Bunny cuddling video!
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