This past weekend saw the beginning of our first polytunnel. The project will be documented in pictures here, so keep checking back.

As DIY projects go this one is fairly easy to tackle and the materials are simple to come by. I scoured the web for ideas and never quite came up with what I wanted–that is until last night when I found this. Almost the same design as the one I am creating, but smaller.

As I worked on the tunnel I found the materials–pvc water pipe–has some limitations, like the couplings are easy to break and if you’re not going to use glue (we want to be able to take this down and move it possibly with in year) than you’d better use something like Duct Tape to hold the joints together as you assemble things.

Also, site prep is important. We are limited in choice for locations–it is pretty much where we put the thing or no where. However, a flat, level surface would be nice. Short of getting a tractor in and grading the ground–which it is too wet for and the location is a bit tight–we were stuck with a sloped and dippy spot.

After the perimiter was staked out and lined it was really a simple matter of driving in rebar stakes, plonking on pipe and flexing it into the unions.

Be sure to read more about it, and view the photos here.

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