What do you use your polytunnel for?

InfamyInfamy

Sounds strange, eh!

Apart from the obvious (growing veg) my OH also put up two washing lines so I can dry clothes in mine!

Anyone have any other unusual uses for their polytunnel??

jammy_dodger

me too
i keep my chickens in there too over winter they do a great job of clearing ground and leaving their deposits for me to dig in earlt spring , they think they are on holiday for the winter

mambury

I am thinking of getting chickens, do you think I could do the same with a green house?? Doors and windows open obviusly!!

Mrs_Thrify

Drying the clothes in it sounds good for when it is raining but on a windy/sunny day they may be better on a line outside.

I tell Oh to store the garden chairs in our greenhouse in winter, but does he listen!

InfamyInfamy

julie_d wrote: »

Drying the clothes in it sounds good for when it is raining but on a windy/sunny day they may be better on a line outside.

I tell Oh to store the garden chairs in our greenhouse in winter, but does he listen!

Yes...I only use it to dry the clothes on rainy days!
:T

choille

I did read an article a couple of years ago & I guy was actually living in one - now there's a cheap house. He'd put a wood burner in!

It was in a gardening mag & it was in Wales - Practicle Gardener the mag was called.
He'd sort of erected a tent inside part of it to keep the condensation drops off himself & lived on a sort of raised wooden platform. Quite ingenious, but wonder what the planning department thought.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

I did read an article a couple of years ago & I guy was actually living in one - now there's a cheap house. He'd put a wood burner in!

It was in a gardening mag & it was in Wales - Practicle Gardener the mag was called.
He'd sort of erected a tent inside part of it to keep the condensation drops off himself & lived on a sort of raised wooden platform. Quite ingenious, but wonder what the planning department thought.

If you do a Google Earth over the remoter parts of Wales, you will find mobile homes and other non-standard buildings in all sorts of odd places!
I know of one caravan that sits neatly under a pole barn and therefore looks just like a livestock building from the air....

The polytunnel I got with my new place is home-made, and I don't trust it to survive this winter, but I'm potting-up in there for now and sowing a bit of hardyish veg, like Mizuna.