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[sineadfoxy]

Hey all, I see a lot of people who are looking for tunnels in Galway... We got a tunnel about 6 weeks ago from a Galway based guy, it's a straight sided tunnel 14ft x 40ft.... yea I know a bit longer than what I imagined 40ft was in my head! came with doors too and table legs for 5 hoops and delivered free of charge to Kilkenny! I payed about €950 for it. I just done a google search for pollytunnels in Ireland. We had helped my cousin put up her one a few weeks previous(from a different supplier based in Kilkenny), hers was a heavy duty totaly curved one, very heavy frame etc... ours is much lighter but a hell of a lot easier to put up, and once the plastic was trenched it's very sturdy for half the price of her one. I'll have to figure out how to post pics and let u all have a look. Just need to figure out how NOT to kill everything in it!

[Janef]

My polytunnel came from Fruithill Farm in Bantry. I got it 5½ years ago and it is fantastic. 6 metres x 6 metres, and about 4 metres high in the centre so it's very airy . Very solid construction. Big door at one end and window at the other end. I'm afflicted by rabbits so can't leave the door open in hot weather. I covered door and window with insect netting for ventilation and have a plastic curtain that I pull down over the door and a hinged plastic cover for the window for cold weather. The steel frame is set into concrete along both sides, and the plastic is fixed along the sides into a metal bar that is attached to the arches and can be hammered down to get really good tension on the plastic. (No burying the plastic edges in trenches and then shredding the plastic with strimmer when clearing weeds!) It's still as good as new after 5 summers and well worth the extra money it cost. I've grown probably a ton of tomatoes and thousands of cucumbers as well as peppers, aubergines, all kinds of salads, herbs, early potatoes in it. Solved the water problem with 9 connected water tanks, about 500 litres of stored rainwater, and a small pump that I found on ebay.

[kinvarasustainableliving]

We're organizing a 2 day course in polythene tunnel growing in Kinvara Co. Galway. Anyone interested can request details by pm. It's on on Saturday and Sunday the 19th and 20th of September.

[Janef]

Of course I meant 500 gallons not litres!!!