Project Polytunnel Pt. 2 - The Foundations | Some Setbacks...
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- Part 2 of the Polytunnel Build. Dedicated a whole weekend to this and all things considered it could have gone a lot worse!
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For everyone suggesting raised beds - I also made the same decision almost instantly 😅 it's that or double digging but I think raised beds is probably the better solution for this plot!
I imagine Steve sitting in his chair talking you through it.
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JB, Steve would have been proud of all the work you accomplished this last weekend.
Good Job 👍
The 'Apprentice' has learnt his trade well ... The old fella was a good teacher and your plot is reaping the rewards. Steve would be so proud of you and the progress you are making.
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Double win jb enjoying the job and making Steve proud well done you 😊
Well Done JB. Your determination is so admirable. Made me feel exhausted watching you! :-)
Your laugh is contagious and always makes me smile ❤
I’m impressed, I love to see how you tackle set backs it’s helpful. One of my Gran s quotes where there’s a will there’s a way. I enjoy the challenging jobs , sometimes I think I purposely invent them.😊👍
Your excitement is infectious JB. When we put our polytunnel up it took us weeks. The ground was full of large stones. Good luck with the frame and Steve would be very, very proud.
Yeah I was quite lucky in some ways, there were a few big stones but nothing too serious. I'm hoping to get it up ASAP so I can put some peppers in there and make it feel alive 😁
I’m super glad you’re remembering to have fun through it all. 😂❤ Keep at it, JB! 🥰
Thank you Sox!
JB,know this,it was Steves wish for you to have the tunnel,he knew you well,and knew you would have a great laugh putting it together, im sure he laughed many a time watching you sorting out different things on your plot. He was obviously fond of you,like everyone is. He would be so proud of your progress. Well done, JB. I do think, for me,raised beds were a game changer, and it might be your game changer, too.
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Two words for the plot after watching this video- Raised Beds! You’re doing a great job, Steve would be pleased. ❤
Well done JB! Steve would certainly have been pleased with how you tackled that groundwork.
I am loving the videos of you doing this tunnel and the dedication you are doing it with Steve would be so proud
Thanks Karen! 💚
Great job so far JB, Steve would be proud 😊
Kudos for keeping it real JB - Good Luck with the tunnel and upcoming raised beds. You have done Steve proud and am sure will cotinue to do so.
Seeing your sense of achievement here is fantastic! I feel all your heartache & frustration with your greenhouses has led you to this point! Steve would be very proud indeed 😊❤️
Well done JB. Steve would be proud of you
I can’t wait to see it all finished steve would be very proud of you sticking in with all that rain ❤
The moral of this story is that you have got to have raised beds in your allotment. Keep going ❤
Well done JB…
The rest will be a lot easier for you am sure, Steve will be looking down on you and saying well done JB, you will be soon growing in the polytunnel, and you will forget about all the hard work, with all the rewards you will be getting for you and your Jess.🙂
Well done JB, can't wait to see all the great food you will be growing in that great poly tunnel next year. Big thanks to Steve. Loving your enthusiasm.💚xx
Great progress JB, an SDS drill would help drive those in to clay. Quite handy to have Steve’s instructional clips to look back on
well done j b as you said steve would be proud of your efforts so far keep going it will look great when finished i no so many still think of him when there at their plots working
Loved the notations 😄And awesome neighbour to lend you the auger 👍Also, lol @ the spare cabbages 😂And very well done!
Great progress
JB, great progress. Those foundation poles are definitely the key. Get those right and the polytunnel will be fine. I think you've done a great job thus far and pleased to see you enjoying it, as you should. Look forward to seeing further progress, well done and thank you for sharing this with us. Paul
Thanks Paul !
Hi jb you have worked so hard Steve would be proud lv Irene 😘 xx
You are doing amazingly well, I have clay soil with big stones which is a complete nightmare to get anything into as you just continually hit massive stones. I had to put 8 foot posts into my borders and I ended up digging out the holes by hand, and then pouring water in to make it mud and removing the stones with washing up gloves on through the mud! I was going down about a foot and a half. It worked really well although it was crazy and I must have looked like I was giving the soil a gynaecological exam as I was up to my elbows with rubber gloves on, rummaging about.
😂😂😂😂 Laughing so much, what a description. I've dug a lot of fence posts in my time as a countryside ranger and I swear most of those went in easier than these tiny little foundation tubes! Sounds like you did a great job on your posts though for sure
This is tremendous for your mental health 😊
I think people would like to see the nitty gritty of building the tunnel. They can learn along with you. Just a thought. We don’t have to see every minute but the main steps….
😲 Mate! You did it!! In a weekend!!! That would have taken me a month. I know this for a fact as I built a Greenhouse in my garden almost entirely by myself (I got a friend to lend his hands with the glass installation). But I did not know how to build a Polytunnel so seeing the poles and the plates was instructive - they were not as I had imagined. I daresay you’ve got the hoops all on now and it must look splendid. Your 2024 🌶️ season is going to be epic.
Speaking of which, I just received a new LED grow light today to aid my next season - a ViparSpectra 2023 jobber with dimmer to solve the ‘too bright’ problem I had this year. My guys are all looking wonderful now, tons of fruits coming. It’s all come good after a shaky mid-season. But let’s not talk about the 🍅 and the problems that the compost has caused. Sylvagrow for me next year, the Dalefoot is way, way too strong nowadays. I had to ‘dilute’ it with Sylvagrow to make it bearable by the plants.
Yesss I was so proud of myself honestly. Was so close to not coming back when I went home at 2 for food 😅 I did take tonight off too just to rest, honestly everything hurts. Hoping we can get the frame up tomorrow though 😁 can't wait for next year's peppers. Hoping to expand the autopot systems as they are doing amazingly well.
I have a viparspectra and they're really good, happy to hear your chilli's have made a good recovery 😁😁
Well done. I did the water trick with my foundation poles.
I feel your pain. I was very lucky that a friend in a local farm was able to come and level a section of a slight hill so I could build my 14x70ft tunnel. I used screw-in poles from first tunnels but ended up hitting so much rock that I ended up using an auger and spade to slowly excavate to 30 holes. I love watching your journey with this and I’m really looking forward to watching your time with the tunnel. Can you anticipate the joy?! 😂Also thank you very the sped up hammering bit. I laughed a lot!!
14 x 70ft Holy cow I hadn't realised it was that big!! My eyes are watering thinking about how much work that must have been to build
will be good to see it up again and getting its first use, Steve will be proud of ya. Q, if the U-bolts are fixed to the pipe above the flat plate, wouldn't the pipe still pull out of the flat plate. I would have thought the U-bolts would be under the flat plate to prevent the pipe from being able to be pulled out. I haven't put a tunnel up tho so just speculating, i'm sure your following Steve to the tee 👍
Thanks locke! And yeah each plate has a clip underneath AND on top to secure the plate in place
@JBNat cheers, that makes sense. Wonder if there's a third one for the hoops to sit on. Can recall that Steve made it so he could adjust the tension on the cover somehow 🤔
I've used a crow bar to hack away at clay, it's a pain stacking job for sure. Your doing amazing 🌻
Thanks Angela!
Well done JB you're doing well. I'm just over the border from Cumbria in southern Scotland and I know that weather well! It's getting exciting!!!
Hi JB, great job getting the playes & poles in. I have a poytunnel but, mu hubby paid for first tunnels to build it as he didn't trust himself to do it 😅 it's only 10ft x 10ft, he said itcwas money well spent. I have pallett collars in mine and i love it. I also have 2 high pallett collars in the rest of my plot too. Our soil is exactly the same as yours, raised beds are defintely the way to go. I tried to grow in the ground for a season, and it was awful. Can't wait to see it completed. You 😊and Jess will love it. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thanks Christine! If we get a greenhouse for the garden I'm seriously considering paying for installation...
Can we get a chilli update. I'd like to compare to mine as I feel they are behind this year with the weather being atrocious
Yes I will try and do one soon!
JB, I think I have to agree with a lot of the comments regarding the raised beds,, if you have a shallow soil depth then the answer is to raise the soil level with raised beds,,, you've done really well to get all the anchor points in,,, let the build begin,,,
You're doing a cracking job. Are you going to try a homemade compost bin like Steve was experimenting with?
Thank you! Probably not to be honest, thankfully Steve has already showed us his fairly successful experiment! He was intrigued by the hotbin but showed everyone that if you want to build one on a budget you absolutely can.
I'm looking forward to seeing you rebuild this polytunnel, hopefully the weather will be kind 🌞. Jo Devon
Ah JB when ever you put a video out I always watch it as there so good. Just think this time next year a Polly tunnel full of tomatoes.
I Have a large greenhouse. with loads of buckets with holes cut in the bottom half fill with compost and tomato's and cucumbers but after the tomatoes have finished. I leave buckets were they are and put garlic bulbs in-between the buckets alway have an amazing garlic ready for harvesting just before the time comes for tomatoes plants go in again. Much better than my outside garlic.
Ahh thank you so much Pauline ❤️ I've heard great things about the bucket method and I know Tony does that too. Might well give it a go at some point! Will definitely try garlic in the tunnel too, hopefully no white rot 🤞
Absolutely awesome watching you re build JB. The Clay is a pain yep but l have no doubt you’ll have it up and in operation in no time flat!
Good work JB!
Cheers
Sofia
Thanks Sofia! Took the evening off to edit this one (and rest!) but hopefully right back to it tomorrow!
@@JBNat Good one 👍
Water the clay thoroughly to hammer the poles in... i always wait until after a good soaking rain to do anything with our clay.
Take a plot they said will be fun they said ehuuuu JUST hard workout free gym 🤣
Well done!
A bit slower than you would have liked ..am sure we've heard that before 😂😂😂