New Polytunnel Tomorrow

[Hole Digger]

Fetching the new tunnel tomorrow its 25ft by 10ft its ready erected on another plot so just got to whip the old cover off and dig poles out and re-erect, already got a 25ft by 14ft tunnel but the soils a bit sick of toms and peppers so ime planning to get the summer out of the sheet and then take the sheet off and let the weather in.Anyone tried putting scaffold green netting on the hoops,as a type of brassica cage?or perhaps growing strawberries under it

[Paul Wagland]

Wow - where did you find it?!

Any kind of netting would be effective, so long as the holes were small enough to keep pest insect out.

[shirlthegirl43]

Lucky you!! I used scaffold netting last year to keep the flutterbys off my brassicas. I made one mistake though and some of the plants were able to touch the netting which let the butterflies lay eggs on them through the net - be careful that you don't repeat my error!

[gardenplot]

Congratulations on you new tunnel most people I know use scaffold netting but like Shirley said keep plants away from net so nowt can lay eggs on them

[Hole Digger]

Wow - where did you find it?!

Any kind of netting would be effective, so long as the holes were small enough to keep pest insect out.

work in the construction trade paul, it does have some advantagesthe netting is quite fine but it has eyes so i think they'll have to be pulled together to keep the critters out,i put the green netting over some over wintered shallots but the leaves yellowed quite badly so switched to enviromesh, the leaves have now greened up a bit,so theres probably a problem with light transmission.