Sera being Turkish for polytunnel
A couple of weeks ago having decided that winter might at last be over and with a crew of willing hands, the time had come to take down our somewhat wrecked polytunnel.
This was easier said than done. First the extremely heavy , wet soil holding the polythene cover down had to be shifted (Note four footed supervisor).
A couple of weeks ago having decided that winter might at last be over and with a crew of willing hands, the time had come to take down our somewhat wrecked polytunnel.
This was easier said than done. First the extremely heavy , wet soil holding the polythene cover down had to be shifted (Note four footed supervisor).
Then the polythene had to be rolled up and removed
Next all the carefully fitted nylon reinforcing lines had to be removed and coiled up.
Finally the framework was removed
In some ways we were lucky. Because of the way the tunnel collapsed in the centre, it actually left us the equivalent of a long, rather low U shaped tunnel, which left most of our planted beds unaffected. I did take to wearing an old builders hard hat when venturing inside after clanging my head on the frames several times.
Our local Sera frame builder tells us that some people lost ten tunnels in the winter, which was apparently "The worse for forty years". The local gurus of such things have now decided that the reinforcing lines are not a good idea as they stop the snow sliding off. (These sages include the man who sold us the line in the first place.)
Many thanks to Aishling, Juan, Allen and John for their hard work taking the tunnel down and belated thanks to Val, Helen and Bruce for helping us put it up in the first place.
AG
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