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Pollytunnel shelving - Small chilli - 12-10-2023
Have any of you made hanging or fixed shelves for your pollytunnel? If so how and what with?
I'm thinking of shortening the blow away and cover it with insect mesh. To cover the brassica bed. Hopefully have shelves running down each side I could have my strawberry plants in their as well.
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - Farendwoman - 12-10-2023
Can’t help.
What I would give for a poly tunnel!!
No room for one,sadly.
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - Veggie - 12-10-2023
How strong are the bars on your polytunnel? I tried something similar with one of the really cheap ones when the cover started to disintegrate - so I covered it with debris netting. It was OK until the metal hoops rusted in the rain. I wouldn't have wanted to hang anything from them, even at the beginning as they' weren't very strong.
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - Small chilli - 12-10-2023
Yeah the strength isn’t quite what I’m used to., but it has been put though it’s paces with the recent storms, it’s still stand. Granted it’s tied down in 4 different directions. But the actual frame work is ok. The cover however is a little below par.
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - Can the Man - 13-10-2023
I have hanging shelves in my tunnel. They came with it as I bought the pack together with the raised beds.
Strawberries were a disaster in the tunnel on the shelves, I kept the, in large pots each with its own water supply, but they just didn’t produce, I think the also struggled with pollination in the tunnel which I have learned more about now having grown the tomatoes and chilli’s and cukes that need pollination. When I moved the strawberries outside into raised beds with cooler climate, natural watering, more open pollination I had fabulous success. Now I don’t really use the hanging shelves anymore. I used them when I pricked out the tomatoes and chilli’s but only for a week or 2 until I was ready to plant on.
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - toomanytommytoes - 13-10-2023
This chap made his own hanging shelf out of roof battens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9YlMSsy8YeA
RE: Pollytunnel shelving - Small chilli - 13-10-2023
That’s perfect. I can do that. Thanks TMTT.