carols farm
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Polytunnel adviceHi i wonder if anyone can help, we have just erected a polytunnel and being new to growing under cover I would appreciate any advice on what to sow and when.
Does anyone have a polytunnel plan/calendar?
Many thanks
Carol
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ros
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Can't help you with the calendar I'm afraid
- but I would be careful using your email as your name you may find a lot of interesting (or otherwise ) stuff in your inbox!
and welcome to Downsizer 
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pookie
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hi Carol, welcome,
We are also in our 1st season with a polytunnel, some things have been great and others not so great. Blight and caterpillers to be precise 
good luck! 
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Mutton
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Look at Autumn 2009 article in the left hand menu for starters.
Look at the threads on what people are planting now/September.
Search for winter crops or suchlike terms.
(Assuming you want to get going right now. ) 
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resistance is fertile
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Eliot Coleman-Four Season Harvest.
He's a star!
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gz
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Hi, cousin
We have got shallots planted for some early onions, lettuce (Little Gem) being pricked out now, turnips sown, young brassicas, radishes,autumn sown onion seed ( White Lisbon?)
I can't remember what Colin was putting in the last block, but I'll find out today if he has recovered from pony herding yesterday 
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fivespud364
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yes there is lots you can grow in a polytunnel its even worth trying things like a late crop of French Beans as well as many other things such as oriental greens, Salads, Pak choi, Komatsuna, etc as well as chards , lettuce, other salad stuff , peas, broad beans, onions, shallots, garlic , brassicas etc etc
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Tavascarow
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Spuds.
Stick them in now & you will have a small crop of earlies to have with your roasties on Christmas day.
You can do the same for an early spring crop as well.
Spinach & oriental salads.
Bulbing fennel.
As well as F&V there are quite a few cut flower crops that harvest winter early spring as well.
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VM
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Fennel?
When would you sow it and when would it be ready to eat.
We've had our best ever outdoor crop this year, but I didn't know you could overwinter it.
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Mary-Jane
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Do you get Kitchen Garden Carol? Joyce Russell has a monthly column in there called 'Under Cover' about growing your own in a polytunnel. It's very good indeed and I follow her tips and advice avidly.
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sean
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Regular hoovering is supposed to be important.
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