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With more people living in small city homes, nowadays, having your own garden or private outdoor area is often viewed as a luxury. However, when trying to get the most from your outdoor space, you may be unsure where to start – especially if you are limited for space and trying to design a layout that’s practical and looks good too.

Whether you want to enjoy the perfect family garden or create a little relaxing retreat, a few simple garden ideas and careful planning could improve your home by acting as an extension of your living space.

Are you looking for a way to encourage your students to spend more time outside? Would you like them to be more excited about nature and incorporate this into lessons? Starting a school gardening project could help you to achieve these goals, while also providing fun for your pupils.

As a busy teacher, the idea of finding the hours to create and look after a garden may seem difficult, but these tips and school garden ideas could make the process easier and provide an opportunity for your pupils to learn and develop outdoors.

The term ‘organic’ can be confusing. While many of us have seen organic produce in the supermarkets, do you know what it is that makes crops organic?

For food to be organic, the growing process must not use any synthetic chemicals, including pesticides or fertilisers, and production should be environmentally sustainable.

Feeling a little confused? You may well be! While this sounds complicated, organic gardening is probably easier than you think.

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.

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:

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.

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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.