Polly Tunnel

[Highlander]

(7 March 2013, 12:55)Scythe13 Wrote:

(6 March 2013, 21:59)Highlander Wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to which preservatives might be best to use?

Why not use good old ronseal? Does exactly what it says on the can. If it works for fences, your tunnel wood should be fine.

You can use a thin material mesh to catch condensation before it hits the wood. Kind of like in butterfly enclosures.

Ronseal sounds good to me, its probably the way I will go, thanks,... you also touched on a slight worry I have with the design,.. in order that the plastic doesn't rub on the wood, I have covered the wood with pieces of carpet,... with condensation running inside the plastic, if it gets into the carpet it would take time to dry,..and I don't want a rotting area there

I thought about running a couple of lines of silicon down each side of the timber about half an inch from the carpet/wood,... so that any condensation doesn't find its way to the carpet

(7 March 2013, 20:29)MaryN Wrote: Tunnel is looking good, Highlander. Have you thought about adding heating to give you a longer growing time? I read some interesting stuff on greenhouse heat sinks, and noticed that the Victorian gardeners used to utilise manure. Handy stuff.

I watch the program about a year ago called [ something like ] The Victorian Gardener,... and I remember them talking about the same idea, with this is mind, I do have an idea to include a compost area within the tunnel to see if I can generate some heat,... how successful it will be, time will tell