January feels like the dead of winter, but it’s actually a really useful “head start” month. You’re not filling beds yet, you’re setting things up so that when spring does arrive, you’re weeks ahead ...

In a world turned suddenly upside-down, food-growing is a wonderful way to anchor ourselves in safer waters and weather out the storm. In particular, if you’re lucky enough to own a polytunnel or ...

A polytunnel is my lifeline to a longer growing season and tender summer veg. It opens up possibilities I could never enjoy when living in higher, more marginal ground. In warmer sheltered parts of ...

Fuelled by a growing desire for a self-sufficient lifestyle and minimal environmental impact, Ellie O’Byrne installed her first polytunnel this year, she writes. Going green: Ellie O'Byrne and her ...

History doesn’t tell us who first figured out that by stretching a skin of taut, transparent plastic over a series of rigid, vertical steel hoops, you could create the sort of protected growing ...

D-PLANT Horticulture is a family run business established in 1996 to produce bedding plant and pot plants for the retail market and as a contract propagator for the nursery sector. D-plant is known ...

When Dermot O'Neill, one of Ireland's best-loved gardening personalities, bought the walled garden at Clondeglass, southern Ireland, more than a decade ago, it was derelict and on the verge of ...

HUGE interest in growing your own has led to a surge in “undercover” growing to extend the season. It also enables growing of crops that are not viable outdoors in Irish summers. Thu, 31 Mar, 2011 - ...

A Jersey environmental group has opened a new polytunnel to extend its growing season. Grow Jersey said the £12,000 project, which was partly funded by St Helier Youth and Community Trust, would allow ...