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  Commercial and domestic polytunnels provide a robust protective environment and an ideal growing space, but can pose unique risks when UK temperatures rise, due to poor management. The UK is experiencing warmer weather due to global warming, with heatwaves becoming more prevalent and severe. Current and future weather trends pose real challenges for agriculture and horticulture operators, but particularly for crops or plants grown in controlled and covered domestic and commercial polytunnels.   Poorly Vented Domestic and Commercial Polytunnels Polytunnel coverings trap heat and humidity inside a protected space, creating a warm microclimate that supports and induces crop growth. Crops and plants can then be sown or potted. During extreme or excessive heat, the inside temperature in small domestic polytunnels and much larger commercial structures can rise to harmful levels.  Heat buildup can cause stress to crops and plants, due to poor or inadequate ventilation and temp...

  The reason there are so many different small polytunnels for sale is that they are more commonly sold as kits, particularly from online polytunnel suppliers, newspapers, and in retail sites such as garden centres, largely due to the nature of consumer demand. Most consumers interested in these space-limited housings are home gardeners or keen growers, who only require a quick put-you-up, cheaper structure for balconies or other small cultivational uses. These smaller models from other mass-market polytunnel suppliers can be less expensive and more accessible to a wider audience, mainly because they are mass-produced and made from lighter-weight materials. Making them the focus of marketing campaigns and newspaper advertisements from different types and grades of manufacturers producing small polytunnels for sale.   On the other hand, large commercial polytunnels are more complex and specialised by size, design, and require a build using more robust materials, with a pro...