Premier Polytunnels Blog

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!

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You may or may not know that over the last few months the price of steel has been steadily rising and looks set to continue increasing.

Here at Premier Polytunnels we are currently absorbing the rising cost of steel so as to avoid passing increases onto our customers.

Premier Polytunnels will be closed from 12:30pm on Thursday 22^nd December and will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 3^rd January 2017.

The ‘Premier’ team would like to thank everyone for their support throughout 2016 – it has been a very, very busy year. (The production team are ready for a long nap and a few mince pies!)