The Polytunnel
Handbook
By Andy McKee
and Mark Gatter
Polytunnel Resources
Further Reading | Discussion forums | Manufacturers & Retailers UK | Ireland | US & Canada
Further Reading
If you'd like to find out more about polytunnels, our own book, The Polytunnel Handbook, gives a comprehensive guide to planning, erecting, using and maintaining them. And most reasonably priced, too! You can purchase it through our online shop.
The Polytunnel Handbook
by Andy McKee and Mark Gatter; Green Books 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1900322454, distributed in the USA by Chelsea Green
Four-Season Harvest
Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
(revised edition), Eliot Coleman, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999. A broader look at the issues of growing under cover in an area with extremely cold winters
A useful page of polytunnel articles gathered by First Tunnels, a major tunnel manufacturer in the UK
A fact sheet from the Highlands and Islands Local Food Network (Scotland)
A comprehensive fact sheet from Garden Organic, although you do have to be a member to read it
An interesting article on a farming couple's introduction to polytunnels, and the lessons they learned
A rather dry introductory article from PennState
Discussion forums
A very busy community website. Although self-sufficientish does not have a specific polytunnel forum, there is never any shortage of help on hand. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to become more self-reliant.
Gardeningtalk.com and Vegetable-gardens.co.uk
General gardening sites which regularly feature polytunnel threads
Manufacturers & Retailers (UK)
Citadel
Fargro Ltd
Ferryman Polytunnels Ltd
First Tunnels Limited
Five Star Polytunnels
Greenhouses UK
Haygrove Ltd
Highland Polytunnels
CLM Keder Greenhouses
Knowle Nets Limited
McGregor Polytunnels Ltd
National Polytunnels
Northern Polytunnels
Polybuild Ltd
Polyhouses.com
Polythene One.Com (covers specialists only)
Polytunnelsonline.com
Solar Tunnels Ltd
Two Wests & Elliott Ltd
Manufacturers in the Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland:
Colm Warren Polyhouses Ltd
J.F. McKenna Ltd
Morris Polythene Greenhouses Ltd
National Agrochemical Distributors (covers and sundries)
Manufacturers and Retailers in the US & Canada:
Agra-Tech Greenhouse Manufacturers (Pittsburg, California)
A. M. Leonard (Piqua, Ohio)
Atlas Greenhouse Systems, Inc (Alapaha, Georgia)
Conley’s Greenhouse Mfg (Montclair, California)
CropKing Inc (Seville, Ohio)
FarmTek (Dyersville, Iowa)
GothicArch Greenhouses (Mobile, Alabama)
Grow-It Greenhouse (West Haven, Connecticut)
Hoop House Greenhouse Kits (Mashpee, Massachusetts)
Hummert International (Earth City, Missouri)
International Greenhouse Company (Georgetown, Illinois)
Jaderloon (Irmo, South Carolina)
Keeler Glasgow (Hartford, Michigan)
Lost Creek Greenhouse Systems
Ludy Greenhouses (New Madison, Ohio)
Paul Boers Ltd (Vineland Station, Ontario)
Plastitech (Saint-Remi, Quebec Canada)
Poly-Tex Inc (Castlerock, Minnesota)
Quiedan Company (Salinas, California)
Rimol Greenhouse Systems (Hookesett, New Hampshire)
Speedling Inc (Sun City, Florida)
Stuppy Greenhouse Mfg (Kansas City, Missouri)
Tunnel Tech (LaSalette, Ontario Canada)
Turner Greenhouses (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
XS Smith (Eatontown, New Jersey)