[mikebull]

Hi - I found this group when searching for help with polytunnel netting. I have an allotment and after my polytunnel was wrecked in a storm someone suggested i replace the plastic with netting as other people are doing that. I would really like to try this mainly because it would look so much better. Does anyone know what type of netting I should use and what are the benefits/drawbacks? I was lead here because I found an answer to a post on this subject but I can’t find the post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Mike

[arobwk]

Hi [member=212370]mikebull[/member] - seems we have all missed your post.  It happens!  I can't help, but someone might come along who can. 

[Fleecewife]

  https://www.northernpolytunnels.co.uk/hobby-range/polytunnel-covers.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhYOFBhBkEiwASF3KGaIhXCHyFdEiD4FXXf1OYDhl5R66xcXGdJPPmkInrdEYRs5eNdi66hoCM-4QAvD_BwE

Hello and welcome [member=212370]mikebull[/member]. The link above takes you to Northern Polytunnels, which is an excellent company providing net covers for tunnels, as well as polythene covers.  If enough information is not available on their website, then phone them to discuss what you need. HTH

[macgro7]

I've put chicken wire around mine. You can also you nylon peasant netting of plastic netting if its just to protect from sparrows or pigeons.

[arobwk]

And there was me thinking that the netting of "peasants" had been banned since the 18th century.  Lol !  (Thanks for the typo macgro7.)


I'd be interested [member=212370]mikebull[/member] to know what advice you receive from polytunnel aficionados idc.  I haven't got round to tunnels yet, but did once start looking into netted tunnels to provide more benign micro climate for starter plants without the need to attend to/open up every day in hot weather and I was also thinking about reduced visual intrusion in the landscape and related planning permission. Netting though is, I believe, normally thought of as a shading product - with varying densities - but I have never got round to actually talking to suppliers/experts as still not ready to introduce tunnels). 

[macgro7]

And there was me thinking that the netting of "peasants" had been banned since the 18th century.  Lol !  (Thanks for the typo macgro7.)


I'd be interested [member=212370]mikebull[/member] to know what advice you receive from polytunnel aficionados idc.  I haven't got round to tunnels yet, but did once start looking into netted tunnels to provide more benign micro climate for starter plants without the need to attend to/open up every day in hot weather and I was also thinking about reduced visual intrusion in the landscape and related planning permission. Netting though is, I believe, normally thought of as a shading product - with varying densities - but I have never got round to actually talking to suppliers/experts as still not ready to introduce tunnels).

 
Sorry! It must have been the auto correct 

[Lesley Silvester]

 


Reminds me of when I was a Junior school many years ago and we were learning about Joan of Arc. Our teacher was very emphatic about the spelling since he had had a pupil who wrote "Joan of Arc was a French pheasant." Funny how these things stick on your mind.