Treflach Polytunnel Renovation

Amongst many other jobs here at Treflach Farm, we've been really busy in the polytunnel. Back in January it was beginning to look as if "it had seen better times" as my folks would have said. We put on new doors and took out the old sleepers which gave off an over-powering smell of tar in any heat let alone any leaching. We're making the new beds so that they sit level on the tunnel's 1:10 slope in a kind of cascading terrace arrangement. Lots of stuff growing already...

"seen better days..."

New doors...

...and out with the old creosote-minging sleepers

Bye for now old creosote-minging sleepers - a new role awaits you in the pig field

The first new bed, much narrower for easy access

...and in a cascading terrace kind of arrangement on the 1:10 slope

It's always nice to get another use out of something - here an old drawer front fills up a gap

Lots of stuff growing already

with plenty more seedlings waiting for space

Wes and Ruth celebrating the first completed row