Meanings of polytunnel (polytunnels) in English

Allotments, polytunnels and entertaining areas are designed to encourage communal activities.

In Britain these are grown in winter, in greenhouses or polytunnels which require heating.

The summer crops are now available, thanks to polytunnels.

Soon they had a flock of hens, a couple of milking goats and two polytunnels.

Meanwhile, all the stuff in the polytunnels is just one move ahead in this precise operation.

How many applications to put up polytunnels have been turned down on appeal, do you think?

There are greenhouses and there are polytunnels .

Beyond the gate is a broad expanse of grass and earth, of greenhouses, sheds, canes and polytunnels.

These show dahlias are best grown in glasshouses or polytunnels, so that the weather doesn't spoil their hyperbolic blooms.

The south-facing vantage is great for the polytunnels and vegetable beds that supply a lot of the food to the restaurant.

The shed is a public cafe which is just opening for business next to the polytunnels full of plants for sale.

Billowing baskets in every litter-free town, suburbs frothing over with shrubs, garden-centre throngs snatching up plants bred by the million in Dutch polytunnels.

Most vegetables are remarkably easy to grow, and the availability of polytunnels, irrigation systems and home compost bins have made is easier still.

Part of the point of the allotments and polytunnels is to bring people together and such things as barbecues and Halloween parties are encouraged.

Nearby is the children's play area, and towards the back of the site are the compost toilet and pee bales, the animals and the polytunnels.

Polytunnels are often called poor men's greenhouses, but I like to think of them as good value rather than cheap.