Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: ceba on January 03, 2022, 08:18
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I’m just building my 3mx6m polytunnel frame and can’t decide whether to have 2 wider beds along the sides and a path down the middle or a larger bed in the middle and 2 smaller beds down the sides with narrow paths between. Does anyone have any advice / experience about which is better? Thanks in advance.
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Firstly... you'll never look back!
Mine are this size too, and have a central path and a bed either side, which I divide into blocks for growing. When I marked out the two path model, it seemed I was using too much valuable space for them.
Good luck with yours :D
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In my experience narrow paths never work , they may be tempting to gain more growing space , but in practice can be a right pain ! :)
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I'd go for the central path. If you need more space then you could hang shelving from the crop bars if you have them. Look at a guy on YouTube called Steve who posts videos under the title Green Side Up. He's got lots of advice on polytunnels
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Thank you all for your advice. I was leaning towards the central path and I’m now convinced! Now I just have to be patient and not plant anything too early…