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    A polytunnel (also known as a polyhouse, hoop greenhouse or hoophouse, grow tunnel or high tunnel) is a tunnel typically made from steel and covered in...
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    A transplanted bed of lettuce in a polytunnel...
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    English. The polytunnels have been a major issue in the county, as some people see them as a "blot on the landscape". Although some polytunnel sites are...
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    extend the harvest throughout the winter, mostly through the use of polytunnels. Starchy root vegetables are of particular economic importance as staple...
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  • neighbour to rent four acres (≃16,200 m2). His smallholding now boasted a polytunnel for growing vegetables, a fox-proof high rise chicken accommodation and...
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    an undercover walk-through in a sustainably-heated, climate-controlled polytunnel. [1]. Species on show included the blue morpho butterflies, glasswings...
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    including Ray Smith (a freelance butcher) and Michael Michaud an organic polytunnel expert. [citation needed] In September 2006 River Cottage HQ moved to...
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    Plastic transparent materials have also been used to similar effect in polytunnels and row covers. Development of a solar-powered car has been an engineering...
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    season can be lengthened by the use of fleece, cloches, plastic mulch, polytunnels, and greenhouses. In hotter regions, the production of vegetables is...
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    a gently undulating agricultural landscape of arable/pasture fields, polytunnels associated with fruit farms and woodland cover associated with hill slopes...
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