Definitions

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  • noun A tunnel made of polyethylene, used to grow plants that require a higher temperature and/or humidity than that which is available in the environment.

Etymologies

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polythene tunnel

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Examples

  • Year three and the polytunnel was our final stab at growing our own strawberries.

    Sallygardens Smallholding 2008

  • 6 Investing in a polytunnel is the most cost-effective way of extending your growing season.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • This may seem a daunting task because they require so much sustained sunshine, but a combination of polytunnel or greenhouse and careful selection of varieties more suited to our climate makes it possible and rewarding.

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2010

  • This one has got a biodegradable plastic cover, too, which the little plants will lift up as they grow providing them with their own polytunnel.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • This one has got a biodegradable plastic cover, too, which the little plants will lift up as they grow providing them with their own polytunnel.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009

  • Modern food production units – be they US-style beef feedlots or European glasshouse and polytunnel "hubs" that are the size of a small town – are of such a scale that they amplify the impact of all the public health time bombs that our industrial food systems cooks up.

    The food chain is almost broken. Who will reforge the links of trust? | Joanna Blythman 2011

  • Woody is currently harvesting this happy accident from his tiny polytunnel in the garden of his family home in Grantham.

    I ate the world's hottest chilli ? and lived to tell the tale 2010

  • Maybe that's why I sowed the Sutton broad beans ? in the baby polytunnel with the struggling oriental seedlings.

    The swap shop Allan Jenkins 2010

  • Its design means it is equally efficient for a large vegetable patch, polytunnel, roof top garden, patio or hanging baskets.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • The beds had been dug and a polytunnel was sheltering win­ter greens from frost and wind.

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

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