Tim, Nellie and I have had a busy month either building or recovering 20 Haygrove Garden Tunnels in 29 days over a wide area covering Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, Hampshire, Anglesey, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Glasgow, Dundee and Darlington. Nells is a well-travelled Dachshund.
A comment that we often hear when we are exhibiting at shows is, “I would love a polytunnel but it’s too exposed where I live.”
It has been pleasing to see how well our tunnels have been withstanding the increasing number of storms and high winds that batter our island. Customers take the trouble to contact us to let us know how well their tunnels are coping. “During Storm Goretti with red weather warnings for Cornwall and winds close to 90 mph hitting our very exposed site last week, we were seriously worried, but our two Haygrove Garden Tunnels held perfectly with no structural damage.”
The beauty of the Haygrove Garden tunnel is that it is made with 40mm galvanized steel tubing as standard. The cover is a tear resistant woven polyethylene cloth which allows 88% light transmission and diffuses about 55% of the light which gives an even distribution of light to enable plants to grow straight and true.
Yesterday we put a new cover on a 4m x 8m tunnel near Dundee that had been bought from the Dundee Flower Show in 2010. The customer had a wind turbine which meant that he was able to heat his fifteen-year-old Garden Tunnel through the winter, so the tunnel had a healthy crop of potatoes growing, flowers on his cherry and nectarine trees and tomato plants growing well. Snow is expected this weekend!
