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First Tunnels Growing Experts Mark Gatter & Andy McKee

The best laid plans can go astray and gardening is no exception. So wouldn’t it be nice if you could phone Alan Titchmarsh for help when flowers on your tomato plant struggle to set, or email Bob Flowerdew suggestion of vegetable crops to sow now?  But lets be serious. We can’t just phone-up celebrity gardeners, so where can Polytunnel growers get hold of the finest advice..

First Tunnels has assembled a team of experts to lead the Polytunnel gardening to crop success.. The team has a lifetime’s experience under their belts – and these Growing guides are available to download from the web for FREE!

Growing Guide - This comprehensive guide to what to do in your Polytunnel over 12 months has been crafted by Mark Gatter author of “The Polytunnel Handbook & How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel all Year Round”.  Mark grows organically at his home in Wales. A click on his Growing Guide will reveal what you should be doing in your Polytunnel, what to look out for, a guide to maintenance and tips to maximise crop yields.  Plus,what to plant, pick and enjoy! Twelve guides are available, one for each month.

Top Of The Crops - Is a definitive guide to crop success in a Polytunnel. It has been compiled by Andy McKee, co author of “The Polytunnel Handbook & How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel all Year Round“. Andy began gardening aged just five and now lives with his wife and family in rural Dorset where they are entirely self-sufficient in organic veg using their Polytunnel and a modest outdoor crop. Using Top of The Crops is easy. Simply choose from 12 popular Polytunnel crops: tomatoes, lettuce, onions, carrots, peppers, peas, cucumber, potatoes, broad beans, sweetcorn, beetroot and strawberries. You’ll find tips on everything from sowing to growing and harvesting.

Best of all, First Tunnels are providing “How to Grow Food in your Polytunnel” & “The Polytunnel Handbook” absolutely “FREE” with every complete Polytunnel order !

With a First Tunnels Polytunnel, your harvest steps up a gear as the rest of the garden winds down for autumn & winter.

Polytunnel Gardening

August – High summer in the garden and time to sit back relax and admire the fruits of your labours. With flower borders billowing and kitchen gardens at their productive best, a years worth of sowing and hoeing all becomes worthwhile. The trouble is green-fingered types aren’t ones to sit in the garden for long. Gardeners are already thumbing through next season’s seed catalogues and planning their plots for 2012 and beyond. We know that autumn is just around the corner and the season will soon be coming to an end.  It’s hard to imagine that the first frosts could be upon us in weeks!

Polytunnel Harvest

For millions of gardeners, harvest soon heralds the end of the gardening year. But there is an exception to the rule: A Polytunnel extends the growing season right into winter. Even in October, productive Polytunnel gardeners will be harvesting carrots, cauliflower,chard, radishes, spinach, spring onion, strawberries and tomatoes – to name a few. The extended harvest doesn’t stop when the clocks go back, many of these popular fruit and veg will still yield crops in November undercover. And instead of watching fireworks, Polytunnel gardeners are busy sowing new crops – broad beans, cabbage, coriander and garlic, for example. Not bad, when you consider that our climate is far from Mediterranean.

Polytunnel Construction

The key to growing your own right into winter is to get a Polytunnel up and running now – while the summer holidays are still upon us.  First Tunnels, the UK’s leading supplier of their vast construction knowledge and expertise with the online garden Polytunnel community. Visit www.polytunnels.co.uk to watch an extensive range Polytunnel construction videos including hoops assembly, fixing door frames, how to repair a Polytunnels Polythene cover and even how to clean a Polytunnels polythene cover. You can download FREE comprehensive construction guides for Polytunnels and Fruit Cages and easy to follow instructions for installing First Tunnels irrigation systems.

Weekend help – Now here’s the best bit : because most Polytunnels are built at the weekend, First Tunnels have set up a construction helpline that operates out of office hours. This allows customers to talk directly to an expert constructor between 9am-5pm at the weekend (call 07801 601253) ensuring that your Polytunnel is completed.

As well as www.Polytunnels.co.uk, there’s a wealth of tips on First Tunnels website www.FirstTunnels.co.uk. You can meet other Polytunnel growers on www.facebook.com/Polytunnels or call 01282 601253 to speak to one of First Tunnels expert staff before making a purchase that’ll stretch autumn harvest right through until Christmas!

Order your FREE First Tunnels brochure and DVD today!

First Tunnels perfect Polytunnels just got even better!

Order a Polytunnel during July and you’ll receive a FREE trestle table  – perfect to increasing the growing space inside your polytunnel.

 Plus 4 great Polytunnel books from Mark Gatter, Andy McKee, Bernard Salt and Jayne Neville. Sounds good…there’s more…

To make sure you’re tunnel stays in tip top condition we’ll also give you 5 litres of Algon cleaning fluid and some polythene repair tape,  just in case! That’s over £100 worth of useful extras FREE!

Order online or over the telephone on 01282 601253 today.

(Offer ends 31st July 2011)

First Tunnels Polytunnel gift voucher

It can be hard finding the right gift for Father’s Day. With First Tunnels Polytunnel vouchers, Dad can choose his own!

Last minute gift idea? No problem – First Tunnels can email a PDF voucher to you (please indicate at checkout the address to send the voucher(s). We will endeavour to email you the voucher next working day.

First Tunnels Polytunnel Gift Vouchers are just the thing  to say “thank you”. £10, £50 and £100 available.

Order online or over the telephone on 01282 601253

First Tunnels are the proud Winners of the Grow Your Own 2011 ‘Best Polytunnel Stockist’ Award – voted for by you, the people who really know which products make a difference when you love to ‘grow your own’.

A great big thank you to EVERYONE who voted for us. We are absolutely, well and truly over the moon!