How To Take Your Polytunnel Installation To The Next Level

Although we can't say that we are experiencing a food crisis, it is obvious that we are experiencing an environmental crisis. Many private individuals find it hard to know what to do to help both the local and global environment. 


Once you have switched to an electric car and installed an environmentally friendly heating system, what else can you do? How about growing your own food? 


What Are The Advantages Of Growing Your Own Food To The Environment? 


I know that many are new to this. But, believe it or not, there are many advantages for the environment for making the most out of your polytunnel construction. Even a relatively small polytunnel installation can feed a family. 


1) If you plan ahead in your polytunnel construction, you can cut down on your supermarket shopping. Going to the supermarket less will cut down on the amount of energy you use. If we all had a polytunnel installation in our gardens, we would eventually reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere as supermarkets would have to bring fewer supplies to the store. Fewer vehicles on the road mean a reduction in greenhouse gases.

2) Growing your own would also mean that your vegetables help to absorb carbon. As we are all quickly learning, plants are small chemical factories that can help us to get rid of harmful airborne pollution particles. Vegetables with large green leaves are great at helping us to reduce pollution but other plants help as well. 

3) Growing vegetables in smaller batches mean that you are less likely to need pesticides. If you rotate your crops and grow vegetables that work well in your part of the world, your vegetables are less likely to experience stress which causes disease. Cutting down on pesticides would help to reduce pollution and many of the harmful substances industrial-scale farming releases into the atmosphere and groundwater. 

4) Any waste material produced by your plants is easy to compost. You can even do so in your polytunnel installation when you use a hot rotter. If you have a hot rotter, you can add other waste materials such as bone and eggshells. What you are left with at the end of the process is a super user-friendly fertiliser which can be used in your polytunnel. 


All of this really makes me wonder why not more of us are considering having a polytunnel construction in our garden? A polytunnel installation does not take very long to complete. Compared to having a greenhouse in your garden a polytunnel is much more cost-effective. You can add new sections and repair them when you need to. 


Best of all, you will always have access to healthy vegetables that you have grown yourself. As a matter of fact, you can even keep small livestock such as chickens in your polytunnels. Wouldn't it be nice to wake up to your own mushrooms and eggs in the morning? 


Location: London, UK

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