Our New Life in the Country: Polytunnel Progress

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Polytunnel Progress

My poly tunnel has now been taken out of all these packages and the metal framework is firmly embedded in the ground. Lovely Hubby has spent the day levelling the ground inside the framework and assembling the doors, I am having a double door at the front and a single at the back, so there should be a nice through breeze to cool things down slightly when needed.

I have never seen so many packages, containing so many bits and pieces, it is like a huge complicated jigsaw, but hopefully when it's all up and in action it will have been worth all the headaches and struggling the assembly has caused.

NO chickens will be allowed in to eat our veggies, at last there will be a chicken-free zone.

Sue xx

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Bertie Meadows5 July 2009 at 08:53
Hi Sue, oh I'd love a poly tunnel. We have a big problem with rabbits and frost, being quite high up. I'd love to see some piccy's when it's all set up.
Bertie x
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Who Lives in a house like this?5 July 2009 at 11:28
Everything is looking great, the farmers market stall looks lovely too, I think you should definately do a stall at the Witney Farmers Market so I can come and have a look LOL! Jasonx
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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