A quick background to the project in case you have forgotten or haven’t been here before:

I replaced the cover on our polytunnel at our allotment and even though it’s a very make-shift cover, it gave me the idea of making a polytunnel (of sorts) for the back garden. Did I have a spare frame? No. I decided I would make it out of the various poles and pipes we have left over from years past.

Here is the progress time-line to date:

Things are starting to come together even if it is held together with duct tape and hope. The top arches lean slightly backwards and I don’t know why but it was quite windy today which I thought was a good test and it didn’t move (much).

I’ve dug out a pile of bricks which were making an underground wall for some unknown reason and I’ll use these to put on top of the cover when I make the trench all the way round to secure the cover and polytunnel in place. I’ve decided to use the not-so-great yellow one this year as a test and if it works I will get a proper cover for it next year.

By the way, in the last post I did about this project, I showed some photographs of the seed trays I had done at the time. Thank goodness I took pictures because, as I suspected, the labels have been washed clean and I had no idea what was in there. I’ve now written down what is in the photos and will put in different labels!