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Self-Sufficient Living

Do you want to limit your impact on the environment and lead a self-sufficient lifestyle? Then growing your own vegetables is a great way to achieve these goals!

There are many ways to invest in self-sufficient living, from maintaining your own car to carrying out DIY, but by growing your own food you can enjoy time outdoors, get your family involved, and make delicious meals with ingredients straight from your garden.

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What to Grow in a Polytunnel

For those who are green-fingered, there’s nothing better than cooking wholesome and healthy meals with vegetables and fruit that you’ve nurtured yourself. Plus, you don’t have to wait until our great British “summer” to grow them. You can extend the season to grow fruit and vegetables and enjoy home-grown, healthy food all year round. How you ask? When you find out how to use a polytunnel, you’ll wonder why you ever spent money on supermarket veg!

Here are some easy-to-grow pantry favourites that you’ll be proud to take from patch to plate:

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Growing your Own Vegetables

Are you looking for a healthy and sustainable way to feed your family? Well, starting your own vegetable patch in the garden is a great place to start. Not only is it easy to do, you’re in control of how much pesticide is used (and therefore how healthy your fruit and veg is), and it’s a great form of exercise too!

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Recycling Polytunnel Plastic

Polytunnels are a great investment for anyone wanting to live more sustainably. Polytunnels help gardeners and fruit and veg growers to reduce their carbon footprints; they allow British commercial growers to increase their yields, limiting the amount of imported crops and cutting food miles. Hobby gardeners and anyone wanting to be more self-sufficient can grow their own home-grown produce inside a polytunnel, where a lot of organic growing can also take place.

However, with many campaigners around the world fighting to end plastic pollution in the world’s rivers and oceans, the use of these structures covered with polythene, or “polytunnel plastic”, is sometimes questioned by people who are keen to be eco-friendly.

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The Best Polytunnel Brand

Premier Polytunnels = The BEST Polytunnels!

The results are in and we are thrilled to have been voted as the Best Polytunnel Brand again in The Great British Growing Awards (2018).

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Spring Polytunnels: It's Not Too Late

Easter is just around the corner… hopefully Spring is too! But if you haven’t got your polytunnel yet, it is not too late.

Although the weather has conspired against gardeners so far this year, you can still get ahead of the game by bringing on your seeds and plugs in a polytunnel.

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Protect your Polytunnel when it Snows

Waking up to a fluffy, sparkly Winter wonderland in your garden may look lovely, but never underestimate the weight of snow and ice sitting on the roof of your polytunnel.

Although the UK weather can be unpredictable, heavy snow showers and very strong winds are not uncommon during the Winter months and even sometimes in early Spring.

February and March are busy, exciting months for polytunnel gardeners as they dare to look forward to Spring and begin to sow Summer crops. So, while you’re waiting for the snow to clear from your garden or allotment, why not take a look at our hints and tips below on how to protect your polytunnel when it snows and gets windy.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Premier Polytunnels will be closed from 5pm on Friday 22nd December and will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 2nd January 2018.

We would like to thank everyone for their support throughout 2017 – it has been our best year yet!

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Heating a Polytunnel in Winter

Brrrr! A British Winter can be bitterly cold and polytunnel gardeners are often left wondering how they can help their plants to stay warm in their beds. So here are some top tips on fighting the frost and keeping the temperature up inside your polytunnel until Spring arrives.

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Easter Construction Helpline

For the first time ever, our Construction Advice Helpline will not be available on Saturday 15th April and Easter Sunday (16th April). This is because one of our directors is getting married and we will all be celebrating with the happy couple.

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