Greenhouses Domes and Polytunnels
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
If you have more space, larger-scale covers like greenhouses, geodesic domes, and polytunnels all make a lot of sense, especially in colder climates.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by |
| 0:16.9 | Nicky Jabour, award-winning author of four books. She's got Growing Under |
| 0:22.1 | Cover, which is her most recent out right now, so go grab a copy of that. |
| 0:26.0 | We've talked of course about all different sorts of benefits and techniques related to growing under cover, |
| 0:32.0 | and now we're going to switch and go a little bit bigger |
| 0:34.0 | scale. So we're talking greenhouses, domes, polytunals, some of these larger structures |
| 0:39.1 | where if you have the space, the investment might actually be worth it and give you quite a bit more production |
| 0:45.0 | and quite honestly just healthier plants. |
| 0:47.5 | And so I'm curious, Nicky, you mentioned you've got a polytunnel. |
| 0:51.1 | Do you have any other of these bigger structures at your garden right now? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, no, I don't. I have my polytunnel, which is 14 by 24 feet. |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, I've had different structures over the years and like you of course I dream of that glass |
| 1:04.0 | greenhouse Kevin and not a small one not like a six by eight foot one but I want a big |
| 1:08.3 | glass greenhouse you know that's maybe Victorian style structure or something |
| 1:12.2 | beautiful but you know when I compared prices that's maybe Victorian style structure, something beautiful, |
| 1:12.7 | but you know, when I compared prices, |
| 1:15.0 | you know, I mean, at this cost per square foot |
| 1:17.7 | compared to a poly tunnel, you know, |
| 1:19.8 | it was astronomical for the last greenhouse. |
| 1:22.3 | So I went practical, yeah, and I went with the poly time. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, I've, let's just be honest here, I've been pricing it out myself and it's not looking |
| 1:30.4 | good. |
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