Polytunnels

Polythene tunnels are blot on the landscape
Henley Standard, UK - Aug 4, 2008
WARGRAVE Parish Council has hit back at criticism that it has ignored the �polytunnel� issue in the village. The polytunnels plastic sheeting under which ...

How to become self-sufficient
Times Online, UK - Aug 2, 2008
You can find one with farm buildings, irrigation, polytunnels and all the other infrastructure already in place, but most buyers like to start from scratch. ...

Food: Q & A
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - Aug 2, 2008
That's why most of the ones grown here are kept in greenhouses or polytunnels. Q When I'm using fennel, can I use the whole thing or do I need to discard ...

Havoc in the hedgerows: The truth about life in the country
Independent, UK - Jul 22, 2008
New crops include oilseed rape, which has a very pervasive smell; some fruits are grown in polytunnels, which can be an eyesore. ...

Looking forward to winter?
Aberdeen Press and Journal, UK - Jul 29, 2008
For a year or two, we have grown a selection in one of our polytunnels at Beechgrove and I reckon the two most successful have been broad beans and onions ...

Now is time to get the best deals on tunnels 31/Aug/2007
Get your tunnels for as little as £45 per acre per week. [see more]
Future polytunnels will not necessarily need planning permission 03/Aug/2007
Government clarifies position on polytunnel planning in England [see more]
Visit us at our Demo Day 11/Jul/2007
Visit us at our Demo Day, Wednesday 11th July 2007 at Hillers Farms [see more]
Polytunnel planning unlikely to hit Scotland 26/Dec/2006
The decision to bring in planning regulations for using soft fruit polytunnels is unlikely to be rolled out to Scottish farms. [see more]
WellPict Tunnels sponsor of Soft Fruit Grower of the year 2007 01/Dec/2006
Grower of the Year Awards 2007 - 22 February 2007 [see more]
WellPict European Tunnels moves to Cyberspace 29/Mar/2006
WellPict European Tunnels has embraced this by launching an on-line operations system that is accessed via the companies all-new website, www.wellpict-tunnels.com. [see more]
WET to supply polytunnels in Scotland 17/Mar/2006
Well Pict European Tunnels to supply polytunnels for 50 acres of strawberry production in Scotland [see more]
WET South Africa 27/Oct/2005
With the production unit in Portugal better suited to supply the European market, WET SA will be focusing all its attentions on the African market. With the huge developments in the soft fruit industry, there is a large demand for quality crop protection; the new varieties being introduced into the market by the Well-Pict European Marketing Trust require tunnel protection. [see more]
Why polytunnels are used 20/Oct/2005
The British soft fruit industry, a capital and labor intensive industry, comprised of family owned and run farms, has become an important and successful rural business able to meet the challenges of a very demanding marketplace. Polytunnels are essential to this. Without them the quality and yields for commercial production could not be achieved and supermarkets would buy imported fruit over British-grown. [see more]
The case for polytunnels 25/Sep/2005
It is no longer realistic or economic to grow strawberries in the UK climate to the standards of reliability and quality demanded by customers without tunnel protection. [see more]

Gardens: 'There had to be a garden'
Independent - Jul 25, 2008
You'd think the last thing a nurseryman would want is a large, labour-intensive garden billowing round him and his potting shed. Not Graham Gough, who with his partner, the textile designer Lucy Goffin, opened Marchants Hardy Plants in Sussex 10 years ago. "There had to be a garden," he says emphatically. "It's my creative outlet. Learning about new plants, propagating them, is fascinating, but ...

Take a walk in the Brecon Beacons
Belfast Telegraph - Jul 23, 2008
My dinner at Peterstone Court Hotel finishes with clotted-cream ice cream and a summer pudding of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.

Havoc in the hedgerows: The truth about life in the country
Independent - Jul 22, 2008
Mention the countryside and you think of natural silence broken only by birdsong. But many new initiatives have undermined the notion of the British rural idyll in recent years.

Take a walk in the Brecon Beacons
Independent - Jul 19, 2008
My dinner at Peterstone Court Hotel finishes with clotted-cream ice cream and a summer pudding of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. I'm in the heart of the Brecon Beacons. The milk chocolate brown humps I can see from my window are interleaved with valleys of lush pasture. I hear that the fruit in my dessert is all local.

www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent
The Kent Messenger - Jul 18, 2008
Strawberry fields forever? We still don't know... Campaigners have won a reprieve in their fight against plans to cover 60 acres of Kent land with plastic sheeting.