Description

An updated edition of the definitive, easy-to-follow guide to growing crops in a polytunnel year-round.

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 celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots and celeriac in early February; salad leaves right through the winter. Even in the 'hungry gap' in early spring you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, peas, tender cabbages, beetroot and more.

Now in its second edition, How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel shares up-to-date information on everything you need to make the most of the warm, sheltered microclimate this precious space provides. Illustrated with beautiful photos and diagrams throughout, the guide includes a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, and a handy sowing and harvesting calendar to help with planning.

Increase your crop quality, yield and harvesting period with this helpful guide.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Through the seasons
2. The tunnel's first year
3. Winter
4. Spring
5. The hungry gap
6. Summer
7. Autumn
8. Plants for the polytunnel
9. Seed saving
10. Dealing with pests and diseases
11. Looking after the soil
Resources
Index

Product details

Published 04 Dec 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 2nd
Extent 288
ISBN 9781399420921
Imprint Green Books
Illustrations Diagrams and colour photos throughout
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Mark Gatter

Mark Gatter began growing vegetables in the early…

Author

Andy McKee

Andy McKee began gardening with his father at the…

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