Here are some of our favourite self-sufficiency and polytunnel gardening sites and blogs.
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A great place to share your gardening pictures and videos, post hints, tips and experiences. PLUS find out more about our online community.
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Here you will find a collection of interesting Polytunnel videos including construction videos, growing tips and general advice for all things polytunnel related.
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Little Growers provide horticultural equipment, advice and support to schools across the UK, encouraging children and communities to grow, learn and work together for a healthier and greener future. First Tunnels are proud to supply Polytunnels for this very unique and exciting scheme encouraging children to grow at school.
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Dig It Projects – Helping to create an outdoor classroom. These garden projects highlight many benefits such as “Healthy Eating and Lifestyles”, but also allows children to escape the everyday indoor classroom environment. DIG IT Projects has been designing and installing “Allotment style Gardens” into schools and community networks to allow the children and parents to GROW their OWN fresh fruit and vegetables.
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Unlike many companies selling over the internet, Victoriana Gardens welcome visitors to their Nursery and Plant Centre. The nursery stocks a far wider range of plants than offered by mail order as they grow many subjects (both ornamental and edible) in too smaller quantity to list online. And of course you will find helpful friendly advice from people who have a genuine interest in what they grow and sell, producing and growing the old fashioned way with care and dedication. Growing plants and the nursery is a way of life, not just a job!
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It was 1998 when Hugh moved into the original River Cottage in Dorset, to start growing and rearing some of his own food. ‘River Cottage’ has since moved on, and has grown and developed, but we continue to stand for the same principles: self-sufficiency, food integrity, and the consumption of local, seasonal produce.
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The secret of Paul’s happiness is a good vegetable garden with a Polytunnel…Paul is a regular on Allotment TV, The Gardening Channel and web based TV channels, and as a presenter on practical gardening short videos. His videos also appear on GMTV’s website and he regularly presents programmes for The Country Channel on Sky and the Internet. And when he is not gardening…he’s writing. No fewer than 17 books on gardening, self sufficiency and the countryside as well as regular contributions to magazines including Home Farmer, Country Life, Farmers Guardian and Grow it!
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The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Their goal is to help people share a passion for plants, to encourage excellence in horticulture and inspire all those with an interest in gardening.
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www.penstemonsandherbs.com/index.htm
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Penstemons and Herb Nursery specialize in Penstemons and herbs in Central France. These herbs are grown for many uses which could include medicinal and cooking. They also offer a range of hardy, perennial plants and trees.
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It’s a place to be creative, much like the allotment. It’s also where you can experiment and display photos (there’s only so much wall space at home!). Mostly it’s a place to show people that gardening doesn’t have to be hard, serious or require qualifications, masses of space, time or money.
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The Smart way to plan your garden. GrowVeg.com is an innovative garden planning tool which helps you grow fruit and vegetables to the best of their ability, whatever the size or shape of your garden or plot. Growing advice is just one click away enabling you to solve problems and maximise your harvest from the space you have.
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Information and Wisdom for Gardeners with Tips and Pictures. There are now around 950 pages of tips and hints on plants and gardening. All the information is based on the author’s experience, teaching gardening and particularly growing the plants in an urban garden in the North of England. ___________________________________________
www.gardeningwithchildren.co.uk
The home of Gardening with Children is a website specially designed to be an interactive classroom, allotment plot, and hobby garden of 21st century. Established in 1995 specifically to encourage people to recycle their organic waste working under the strap-line of ‘Love Your Environment’ and that’s what they want to encourage you to do!
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http://www.greensea-hydroponics.co.uk/
GreenSea Hydroponics have been trading for five years online, supplying growers with hydroponic grow lights, grow tents, hydroponic nutrients, nutrient additives and boosts and they also stock many hydroponic growroom ventilation products that will enable you to create the perfect environment indoors for your plants.
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Tomatoes grown in my polytunnel are not turning red. Any ideas anyone? 
Covering a Polytunnel with Polythene 
June in a Polytunnel 
The FT Polytunnel Harvest Soup 
Planning your plants in a Polytunnel