How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel

An updated edition of the definitive, easy-to-follow guide to growing crops in a polytunnel year-round.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Through the seasons
2. The tunnel's first year
3. Winter
4. Spring
5. The hungry gap
6. Summer
7. Autumn
8. Plants for the polytunnel
9. Seed saving
10. Dealing with pests and diseases
11. Looking after the soil
Resources
Index

About the author

Mark Gatter began growing vegetables in the early 1980s. He's a firm advocate of an organic, raised-bed approach and says that even in Northumberland, where he now lives, it's still possible – with a bit of care and effort – to grow food all year round.Andy McKee began gardening with his father at the age of five. He practices sustainable gardening and uses a mixture of tunnel, perennial, and no-dig beds to produce as much food as possible for his family and the local wildlife. He loathes lawns with a passion.

Product details

• Authors: Gatter Mark, McKee Andy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781399420952
• ISBN: 978-1-3994-2095-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Illustrations: Diagrams and colour photos throughout
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; GARDENING / Techniques, GARDENING / Vegetables, GARDENING / Fruit, Specialized gardening methods, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables, Gardening: fruit and vegetable, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle