Permaculture. The Future of Gardening

 


To achieve a steady supply of homegrown crops for your family you need to have the right polytunnel supplies and polytunnel covers. Getting it right from the start saves you money in the long run. Permaculture is very much the future of gardening. Not only does permaculture help to keep your larder stocked, but it also helps to reduce greenhouse emissions. One of the best ways of producing vegetables is to grow them in polytunnels.

Before buying any polytunnel supplies and polytunnel covers, you need to decide what vegetables you will grow. For instance, if you are planning on growing dark leafy vegetables such as kale, chard or mushrooms, you will need to use an appropriate colour such as green, dark green and even black polytunnel covers. Darker covers let in the right wavelength of light to keep your vegetables healthy and help them to grow in an imitated natural environment. All vegetables have unique growing conditions. Meeting their needs is essential when it comes to permaculture.

If you are planning on growing mainly salad crops, you should go for light or opaque polytunnel covers. Salad vegetables need plenty of light to stay healthy. They also need more water when compared to other vegetables. Other polytunnel supplies you may need for your salad permaculture is good ventilation. Before you buy your tunnel, you need to make sure that it has vents in place. If it doesn’t, you will need to buy ventilation kits at some time in the future. Buying ventilation kits after you have installed your polytunnel adds cost. Bear that in mind as you plan your polytunnel.

Polytunnel supplies are just as important. One thing that all crops need is water. How are you going to make sure the crops in your polytunnel have access to plenty of water? One of the best ways is to install a drip system. Water drip feed systems save both time and money. They also cut down on labour. You don’t have to worry about running carrying heavy buckets of water or watering cans once you have installed a drip system. A drip water system is surprisingly easy to install and you can even make your own with a little bit of ingenuity.

Not only is buying the right type of polytunnel covers important. Think about how you are going to grow your vegetables. Are you going to grow them directly in the ground or on growing benches? You can make your own growing benches using old pallets or you can buy them. Many experienced permaculture gardeners put growing benches on their polytunnel supplies shopping list. It cuts down on bending down. At the same time, the use of growing benches in a polytunnel helps to add space. Now you can grow crops on top of your growing benches as well as underneath them.

Growing vegetables in polytunnels give you the best of both worlds - protection from the outside environment and controlled growing conditions.


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