{"id":1494,"date":"2025-11-18T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:56:45","slug":"marking-out-the-new-polytunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Marking out the new polytunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The design of the new polytunnel is changing slightly every time we get together. Little iterations and changes make improvements in how it is being erected and it&#8217;s functionality based on our own experiences putting up the tunnel at Grow West Fife and visits to Eats Rosyth&#8217;s polycrub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the photo below, the green sections are beds, 3&#8242;, 4&#8242;, 4&#8242; and 3&#8242; with 2&#8242; orange paths between them. The doors at each end will be the width of my outreached hands and the blue curve will be the shape of the plastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is massive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total area including the paths is 90 sq meters, 15 x 6m (we interchange metric and imperial measurements) making it practically double the size of the polytunnel we erected at Grow West Fife,  where  close to quarter of a tonne of tomatoes were harvested this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906-1024x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906-640x288.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251117_114906.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The design of the new polytunnel is changing slightly every time we get together. Little iterations and changes make improvements in how it is being erected and it&#8217;s functionality based on our own experiences putting up the tunnel at Grow West Fife and visits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}