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Make room for a useful plan.

Plan your space and budget, prepare supplier questions, and keep records you can use next season.

Start with your task

Choose space and compare costs

Draw the layout you want to discuss, then compare the contents and costs of quotes.

Plan beds over time

Check a planting grid, reserve its space on a calendar and prepare your seed order.

Use records and reusable worksheets

Keep useful notes, prepare a parts request or download blank planning sheets.

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These reviewed guides cover original planning calculations, budgeting and record-keeping methods. They do not provide verified maker specifications or growing recommendations.

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Start here: your polytunnel planning checklist (UK)

Work from the space you can use to written quote questions, then organise a growing plan and its records.

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What size polytunnel: plan beds and paths (UK)

Use a simple bed-and-path drawing to calculate its footprint, then ask a supplier about the exact model's usable space.

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Compare polytunnel bed layouts before you choose

Compare two bed-and-path footprints in the size calculator, then check a drawing against your plot and supplier information.

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Planting positions in a bed: worked spacing examples (UK)

Count a rectangular bed grid with spacing you have already chosen, including spare space and a rotated layout.

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Replacing a polytunnel cover: prepare a supplier request (UK)

Organise the frame records, replacement parts and open questions before asking for a written quotation.

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Build a polytunnel budget from the whole quote

A practical worksheet for comparing polytunnel quotes, separating confirmed costs from unknowns and keeping optional purchases visible.

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Keep a polytunnel growing diary you can use next season

A simple growing diary with a bed map, a reusable record table and a worked example for turning observations into next season's questions.

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Make a polytunnel bed calendar and spot overlapping plans

Allocate named beds to dated planting plans, find booking clashes and keep uncertain dates visible with a worked fictional calendar.

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Printable polytunnel planning worksheets

Four reusable blank worksheets for recording a polytunnel budget, growing diary, bed calendar and seed order.

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Turn your polytunnel plan into a seed order

Build a seed shopping list from chosen quantities, subtract recorded stock and round up packet counts without treating seeds as guaranteed plants.

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Work it out

Use your own dimensions and chosen spacings. Each calculator explains its assumptions.

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