Another Life: Our little lean-to greenhouse, tucked half into the ground 20 years ago as a way of ducking the ocean wind, has now been quite upstaged by the big new polytunnel nested among the acre's ...

The rural blight of plastic 'polytunnels' that allow farmers to grow strawberries year-round is unlawful, a High Court judge has ruled. To the delight of countryside campaigners, Mr Justice Sullivan ...

Countryside campaigners have said they are delighted with a High Court ruling that farmers need planning permission to put up plastic polytunnels. The test case was brought by the owner of Tuesley ...

A planning inspector has ruled that the construction of huge plastic "polytunnels" on a fruit farm did need permission from local authorities. Waverley council judged that the 99 acres of polytunnels ...

More and more people are discovering the delights of growing fruit and vegetables. Even a small garden can produce a surprising amount of food - but, if you want to raise the stakes and grow better ...

If someone had told my teenage self that something as unabashedly utilitarian and ungainly as a polytunnel would one day occupy a special place in my affections, I’d have hooted loudly with derision.