Meet the POLYCRUB // my greenhouse-polytunnel hybrid
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
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FINALLY, I'm able to reveal my new Polycrub to you! We've been preparing the site and getting it built over the past few weeks and it's finally complete. Polycrubs are greenhouse-polytunnel hybrids built to withstand high wind speeds and the harshest climates. They're very popular across the Shetland Islands, Polycrub's HQ, and if they can stand up to winter storms across the north of Britain, the Isle of Man will be a cakewalk.
Polycrub gave me a special price on my structure as a thank you for my sharing this video with you. I'd have done it anyway though since I ADORE my Polycrub! You can find out more about them here: www.polycrub.co.uk/
00:00 Introduction
01:04 First look
03:34 Background and a look at another Polycrub
06:27 Five reasons I chose a Polycrub
10:27 Jobs for the Polycrub
14:13 What's next
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What a valuable asset to have in your climate and it can survive 120 mph winds And last 35 years that's amazing.
I dream of a polycrub one day. You are right it is a stunning structure. Living my dream through watching what you grow this season.
You're absolutely right your Polycrub it's STUNNING 😻🥰
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉
Hello Ana
A fantastic combination of a Polytunnel and a Greenhouse Tanya. First time I have seen a Polycrub. Looking forward to see what you put in it.
For your door stop to hold the door. Install a vertical sliding rod ~1/2" that can be latched in the up position. Drive a piece of pipe big enough for the sliding rod, into the ground at the desired open position. When the door reaches the desired open position, simply release the sliding rod to insert into the ground pipe. Simple and available at most hardware stores.
Sensible and practical idea! Thank you :)
Just like the manual dead bolt. =to hold the 2 doors together. And 1 for in the ground. Cn uswe a light piece of chain to hold the top door open by itself but it won't help if the wind is blowing hard. Maybe one of those screen door type closers.
Looks fantastic. Definitely different and attractive. You are going to be very busy but it’s a satisfying busy.
I love the look of this greenhouse. Can't wait to see what you do with it
Congrats! It is a beautiful structure. So excited to see you ‘outfit it’!
To hear the enthusiasm in your voice is inspiring. Beautiful structure. Happy Growing!
Wow I'm so excited for you! I have just bought a polytunnel and starting a couple of raised beds and your channel has been so much help! Thank you!
love your kitties so much! beautiful greenhouse, very great build quality
That's so awesome. Can't wait to see it full of green
Wow you could live on Mars in that loved seeing Maggie she's waiting for her chair to arrive to move in. 🐈🐈🐈👍
Love the polycrub! This must be utterly exciting for you 😍🙏 Looking forward to following you develop it 🌱🌼🌻🥬🍅
That is beautiful! I hope we'll be able to see a lot of its use!😊
SOOO AWESOME!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
It's lovely😍 I can't wait to see it planted up!
polycrub look amazing and I love the layout of your raised bed, happy gardening.
I've been saying for a long time now it's best to invest in a more substantial greenhouse.
I love it
Wow! So happy for you.
I would build a full screen door(s) to keep wildlife AND other pests out. Here in Canada we can buy cat-proof strong window screen mesh - which DOES work.
This is so awesome .I would just love to have one of these.I can't wait to see what you grow
Beautiful job on the Polycrub. Excellent video.
Thanks for the 'tour'Tanya. I've been looking at this as we live in a remote, windy, high altitude area with only around 4 months growing season, it could be the very thing we need to extend our season and protect our overwintered veg and salads. Can't wait to see how you develop it.
What a blessing!!! Congratulations.
It really is fabulous, I love that it's a recycle build too. I used copper plumbing pipe for a way to hold my arbor gate open, put a 2 - 3 inches in the ground and a solid piece that holds it in place. A friend bent the top of a solid piece that I used a latch to hold it up hooked to the gate, it just falls into the pipe and works great. That property sure did have your name all over it when you heard it would be for sale, you've done a beautiful job bringing it back to life.
Looks great!! Definitely would be very useful where I live in Canada. So exciting for you - looking forward to seeing the raised beds being built 🌞
Wow, Tanya your tunnel is fabulous. Enjoy.
from my limited poly tunnel experience, it will heat up very quickly when the sun hits....some vents above the doors might be required to keep moving the excessive heat at the top on hot sunny days.....we would fully open both ends of our greenhouses to keep them cooler...even at 40F, 8000ft elevation.....i realize your climate is cooler in general, so i could obviously be mistaken.....
I was considering one of these for our next greenhouse and would have been inclined to split it into two so as to have four gable ends rather than two for ventilation. In the end I have decided to build another 10mm polycarbonate clad pent roof design built from 3x2 and 4x2 timbers which is what we have now. By screwing the twinwall to the timbers at regular intervals with load-spreading washers its all stayed put despite being in an exposed site. Even in the UK I think it's hard to have too much ventilation in a well insulated greenhouse.
Excellent and very practical. Congratulations.
AWESOME!!! LOVE IT!!!!!
Great move on getting the polycrub
Beautiful space, sow exciting! 😁🌱🌱🌱☀️💕
Oh wow I love it Tanya. I could do with that as we live on a very windy site here in southern Scotland. My greenhouse blew away in Storm Arwen. Cant wait to see the progress.
Wow this looks amazing! 😍
Beautiful my friend!👍122
Wow so exciting 😁 Looks amazing 😄
That looks amazing 🤘😉
Very nice project.
Very nice to see some one from isle of man. Me and my family used to live in Duglas Isle of Man. Lived there for 4 years before we moved to California. We had Indian restaurant in Vila Marina for four years. We miss Isle of Man very much .
I have a very similar build. I added a water collecting pipes around and dug down a 2500L water tank with a pump inside and pipes going through the whole lenght. Wifi, pump and diy sprinklers are connected to the solar pannel and a battery, so my lazy self can water my stuff without actually going in there lol
Wow. What an absolutely amazing growing structure. Very jealous. Hope you have an awesome growing season..chris🌻
oh my goodness...you have your own Crystal Palace on the Isle...it's such a neat view from the garden archway looking up at the tunnel...can't wait for future videos...
Nice Greenhouse! Happy Growing ✌️🌎
Beautiful! As far as door closures, place one lock on outside of 1/2 door, and one lock on inside of the other 1/2 door.
I live here in Shetland and yep, they’re everywhere. In my village nearly every single household has one. Most go for 6x4 or 10x4. We’re going for 8x4. Very useful sturdy structure. Some are quite low so people don’t get as much height as yours seems to have. We’re building our own, as we’re next to a mussel farm who give away their black pipes, so we’re going to make ours a little taller than the local standard.
Wow that’s awesome Briony with your black pipe free you can make it as large as you want how fortunate..don’t settle for small as I did a 10x10 greenhouse well after just one great growth season I got another 10x27 lol now I just wish I had started off with a 20x40 as that’s the largest my back yard can support and still have a bit of yard for bbq,s with family, my meat chic leanto, my hen house and run …think how you can fit one to grow your whole garden in so you extend your growing season expecially now when so much is getting harder to buy in stores.
I'm looking to build my own too, but using a old commerical polytunnel frame.
Do you know the thickness of the polycarbonate sheet used on these polycrubs
Mine is 10' x 13' but I have three spare pipes if I want to go bigger in the future.
How exciting!
We completed similar a few months ago and everything is as you say. It is a lovely place to sit with a cuppa. Cats will love their new toilet so be warned! Recent 85 mph winds had no effect. We used opal shade polycarb, experience showed some plants suffered in high summer. Courgettes WILL take over! Am planning another! Great vid!
Our community allotments in the North West Highlands have a Polycrub and I have a bed in it. I have an avocado tree grown from seed as well as the usual tomatoes, herbs and courgettes.
Congrats! She is beautiful!
Love it 😍
OMG...OMG...OMG....THIS WOULD HELP ME SO MUCH...'I CAN DREAM, CAN'T I'? SIGH. CONGRATS ON THIS AND MAY IT SERVE YOU AND YOUR KITTIES WELL....
Hi Tanya
That looks amazing! I live in the biggest "greenhouse" area in Canada with thousands of acres under glass or plastic. Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers, Strawberries, Lettuce and of course Cannabis are grown here among many other things.
New builds in the area are usually 100 acres minimum.
Not many are using glass or soft plastic most are using polycarbonate sheets like your Polycrub. For all the reasons you mentioned which are all very valid.
But this area is amazing as I believe there are between 10 and 20K acres at this point (have kind of lost track) so there will be much you can do in your mild climate!
Looks fantastic and Thank you for the video and looking forward to more!
Mike 🇨🇦 🍁 👍
Really beautiful, i owned several greenhouses and polytunnels but this one is very interesting.
You need more shade i think, for my polytunnel using building nets are very cheap and effective.
Make sure that no moisture can get in the cells otherwise mold got to grow in there, buy special tape for it and seal it.
Here at the russian border the snow is just gone, wish you all the best.
Congratulations 👏
Really nice, Tanya. So much nicer than the traditional poly tunnels. It’s very attractive. I’ve never seen one before. Poly carbonate is so durable. Maggie won’t put her claws through that.
Wow Tanya, from the angle of your camera at the end you can really see the incline of your slope there. How is that working out physically. I couldn't imagine gardening up and down that slope, so hats off to you for that. I'm definitely looking towards waist(ish) high beds in my garden - on flat ground! Love the Polycrub - it looks amazing. x
well thats magnificent well done tanya
I love the polycrub, it has so many benefits! It would be great to install a solar powered fan in the summer, to cool the space and provide air flow in the heat. Can't wait to hear how your growing season goes this year, amazing!
Nice idea
We use fans as the automatic ventilation and they do work well but we have added servo-operated flaps to close them off to prevent wind driving cold air in via the fans at night.
It really is beautiful 🌞
Thank you, enjoy gardening.
I would put in automatic temp activated vents and fans if necessary. The main problem with that design is its going to overheat on a hot day.
They do get very hot but when the doors are open it's fine and warm.
Excellent!!!!!
Lovely new growing space
Lovely indeed 😊 x
Oh wow Tanya, thanks for this video. I’ve been considering the crub as the wind is an issue here so high up in Cornwall. Will be really interested how you get on with it
I love my own greenhouse... but now I'm jealous of yours! Beautiful!
I’m so jealous that looks an awesome design. I did a design degree in the 90s car & product design I use to sketch gardening stuff but at the time wasn’t into it wished I had done I could of been retired by now with a beautiful house and feet up lol 😂 cheers
Really Graceful sent me, I can’t wait to dive into your videos.
We do have pretty serious winter gales, here in the Shetland Islands, which easily top 100mph. Sometimes even up to 200 if it's particularly bad (though that's a rarity). We've personally lost three greenhouses to heavy winter storms - two glass & aluminium, once Keder sheets and Galvanised steel. The glasshouses were flattened, and the Keder one took off like a kite - but that was after a particularly wet winter had left the ground absolutely sodden and it wasn't cemented in. Those were before Polycrubs were available. You see lots of them here, and they all stand up to the winter gales incredibly well, so I think that's the route we'll be taking too.
Its superb
Well it looks great...and so does your weather....today....snow flurries and windy...and -18c with the wind overnight...here in 🇨🇦 .....have fun with it ....I'm interested to see what you grow in it....
Amazing! Looking forward to being super inspired by your setup in the PolyCrub! Hope the builds come together easily and your plants get to move in soon!! Perhaps a solar powered fan inside to keep the air moving on a hot day… =)
Good idea! Thanks Ben
Love it's and thank you for sharing 🌻🌺🦋🌱🌼🍅🌼☕🌅
Hi Tanya. I would only bother with an internal latch for the top door. Once open, you can just reach out and down to slide open the bottom latch. Latch could be cheaply made from a strip of wood screwed to the door; open in the vertical and closed horizontal positions. Lovely poly but far too big for my garden!
Tanya,
Quickest, easiest way to tackle the doors is to take the existing latch hardware off the rear doors and move them to the inside; this solves your solution of needing to open them from the inside and means you also have a quicker escape route of you ever have an issue where you can't get to the other doors.
To hold the doors open, yes a lovely latch would be nice but a couple of eyelets in each door and the external wall will enable you to simply use gardening twine or wire to hold them open.... Or keep using the eco stone you have ;-)
I'm super jealous as it's literally the size of my backyard growing space. Best of luck; we can't wait to see what you grow.
Sammi x
It's honestly looks amazing! x
I'm Sold I Want One !!! The Best Of Both Worlds. Great Job !
I've been lusting after one of these for years, not got the space for it... yet! Hopefully will one day!
WOW nice 😍
I am so, SO jealous! It’s just so awesome and I’m so happy for you to have it (but yes still jealous). I noticed Huw has one too. Sadly I don’t think they ship to Massachusetts 😭
I really hope that they can organise some sort of cooperative arrangement for the US...so many people could benefit from a polycrub 💚
Simple solution for the back door. Put a latch on the inside for locking the two doors together. That way you can open the top part from inside and if you need to open the bottom door you can just reach outside through the open top door. Same time you'll be able to open from outside when the doors are latched together.
Wish it was possible too,for me. Cooking is more of an automatic thing, my wife does it. 😘 but there is heat that must be the dominant feature here . Get it automated by ventilation. It will make life and successful growing easier. Love it. Even powered blowers for excess temperatures.
This is a game changer in the world of polytunnels/ greenhouses, love it🤩 Beautiful design and outstanding placement in your garden.
Q: can it be made with windows on the sides? A really nice indoors growing space. Looking forward to seeing how you fill up the inside space.
Way to go, Josh.
Nice Tan, congratulations on your new build. We just had a dirty 5g tower put up right next to use. I despise them. Now i cant enjoy my garden, sucks. Looks incredible tough.
I love it! 💕 It's too bad that they're only located in the uk. We could really use something like that up here in the high deserts of california. Our winds are horrible we tend to have very cold Winters but our summers would probably eat this thing alive. That would be my only concern is that it's not UV protected enough for temperatures that can get as high as 120°. I do love it however and think that closer to where we have some shade trees that thing would be amazing.
Chris from Epic Gardening has a greenhouse made of the polycarbonate material that the polycrub is made of. She lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Maybe she has some tips to find the material in your local area.
I was just thinking about that, too. I'm in Mohave Co, Arizona. We've been having winds 30-60mph these days, but you are very well aware of these high desert winds. If there was a US supplier of something similar, we'd still need sunshade over it from about May to October. We don't have shade trees where we would need this. I was thinking that with something like this, we might actually be able to grow citrus.
Just get a shade cloth to go over the top.
Sounds to me like California high deserts weren't meant to be lived in....lol
Ask your local Ace, Lowe's, Home Depot hardware stores about materials that can be ordered there. My hubby has been looking at materials lately, so I'm hopeful to have SOME kind of Greenhouse Soon! Hopefully this year... Exciting,
Love the Dutch Door!
Comet hi baby!! I love your creations!!
Looks great! You are going to need a lot more ventilation in that tunnel. It is going to get hot enough to wilt plants in there.
I love it! We recently put in a 20x60 polytunnel (last year). I would have really liked this, but not available here in US, (me in North Carolina). Your space is really coming along.
Hello Tina
That's HUGE! Wow, lucky you :) Thank you Tina
Congratulations Tanya I hope you will be very happy with your new Crub ,don't forget to let us know when the Crub warming Party is 😉
I'm green with envy having spent most of this month moving my small greenhouse!
One thing strikes me ,might you need to shade some of the plants in the summer ?
Further ideas are a sump of heat below ground in stone lumps or rubble. Pump it underground before you expel it. Even to the home. Once its got away you have lost it but it could be reused before dumping it.pipes and small flow fans with stats, will do it .
Truly a thing of beauty. I can for sure see that holding up to our Canadian weather too. I'm curious if roof venting could be installed somehow or if that would weaken the polycarb?
You may want to put some fencing/ chicken wire at the bottom so critters can’t dig to get in at night. Love the polycrub!! I’m looking online to see if I can order one here in the states.
I’m currently building one of these in NE Scotland for a customer of mine! We aren’t very far in to the project yet, we have just squared the base and now have the fence posts in with the first lot of cement, this polycrub is a 6x4.
Good luck with the build! That size is just a metre shorter than mine and will be a great size 👍
Can always put a hanging screen drape in the doors to keep birds, wasp and possibly Miss Maggie out.
Hello Tammy
I’d be worried without roof vents that it will get too warm. Possibly whitewash it. Or put shade cloth.
Hi Tanya, I have just discovered your lovely channel, while looking for a tomato chutney recipe (which looks delicious) , I was amazed to see you standing in a Polycrub, and after watching a couple of your videos, found this one. Firstly congratulations on your Polycrub, you are going to love it, I can guarantee it. I am a Shetlander and have lived here all my life. Growing fruit and more exotic veg is almost impossible here due to our very wet and windy climate. Owning a Polycrub in Shetland is a game changer. Driving around Shetland, you see them everywhere. We have had our one in 6 years. Bought originally for my disabled Brother and now 90 year old Dad, we hoped both would enjoy it, so built raised beds and s seating area in one end. I have inherited the Polycrub now as the carers didn't have time to work in it, and I love it.
I would recommend you install electricity into your crub, both for lighting and also having plugs. We have 3 windows in one end of our crub, all which open, and a stable door at the other end, which opens inwards. I have heavy fish netting curtain which I can pull across the door opening to keep out cats/birds etc. whilst having the door open.
Beware of pests which will more as likely move in, vine weevils greenfly and earwigs. I have a large water but inside, but have to fill it regularly from an outside tap. It would be better if you could collect rainwater to fill it instead. And keeping the crub watered in summer can be a huge task, an irrigation system would be wonderful.
Have lots of fun and I look forward to watching your Polycrub progress, as I have subscribed to your lovely channel.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and tips! I'm absolutely loving growing in the Polycrub 💚
@@Lovelygreens And thank you for the green tomato chutney recipe, I made some yesterday, and it was delicious.
I don't know how the thermometer works exactly, but I see it was sat on a concrete block which could have absorbed a lot of heat. My thinking is that the air temperature might be a bit higher immediately above the block compared to the rest of the polycrub. Though looking at the readings it was showing, a few degrees cooler wouldn't do any harm to plants! Looks like a very nice solid structure, lots of space to grow heat loving plants :)
You're probably right!! Phew...thank goodness :)
Wow! Classy investment. If the doors were in the house they'd be called French doors.