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If you’re looking for a low-maintenance, leafy crop to plant in your garden or polytunnel, pak choi could be the perfect choice. These versatile leaves are best enjoyed in salads and stir-fries, but they’re also great for other Asian-inspired dishes including noodles and ramen. In our handy guide below, we’ve covered everything you need to know about growing pak choi plants at home.

Chilli peppers are known for their fiery flavours and vibrant colours. They pep up old favourites like chilli con carne and add an unexpected twist to a simple broth. But as well as being a hot addition to a dish, there are cooler, sweeter variations that enhance flavour and make for an enjoyable dining experience.

However, you might not find many different types of chillies on the supermarket shelves, so it’s worth taking the reins and growing chillies from seed at home. This opens up a host of possibilities, allowing you to choose from an array of colours, shapes and heat levels, and plan out the meals you’ll make.

Whether you’re just starting your first vegetable patch and want to begin with growing chillies or you’ve been growing for a while and want to know how to grow chillies alongside your other allotment crops, we have everything you need here in our guide to help you. Plus, you can find out more about the drying process. For home-grown chillies packed with flavour, read on.

An eye-catching spiky plant containing edible fruit, the pineapple originated in tropical South America, before becoming popular in Europe in the seventeenth century. After arriving on European soil, it was quickly adopted as an icon of luxury, thought to symbolise the wealth and nobility of those fortunate enough to enjoy it.

While tucking into a pineapple today doesn’t quite carry the same gravitas, there are still plenty of reasons to enjoy this tropical fruit. Often sought after for its health benefits, the luscious yellow flesh not only tastes delicious but is loaded with vitamins and minerals believed to promote healing, boost immunity and aid digestion.

Although the plant is native to a much warmer climate, you can still grow pineapples in the UK. There are a number of factors to consider when doing so, but the reward of a home-grown pineapple will make it worth your while.

Read on to find out how to grow a pineapple plant at home. 

Ginger is a fresh and spicy root vegetable that is used in many delicious recipes around the world. Its use goes back 5,000 years and it has since been utilised by countless civilisations. This is due to it having many health benefits, including anti-inflammatory properties and being a digestive aid.

Although this root is native to the tropical forests in South East Asia, you can still grow ginger in the UK. There is much to consider to do so, but what you’ll get in return is great tasting ginger and a sense of pride.

How big your ginger grows depends on how you plant, care for and harvest it. Within this guide, we’ll help you get the best results when growing ginger at home.

Beetroots are delicious vegetables with earthy, sweet and tangy flavours. They’re surprisingly versatile for cooking. You can boil, roast or even preserve them in vinegar – meaning that they can be eaten hot or cold, and are perfect in roasts, soup and even salads. What’s more, beetroot is widely recognised as a superfood with many research-backed health benefits.

There’s so much to be gained by eating beetroot. Even so, the satisfaction of healthy and flavourful eating that beetroots provide blooms even greater when you grow your own.

Beetroots are a relatively easy vegetable to grow. Still, it’s no small task to transform your seeds into perfect, purply spheres. That’s why we’ve written this guide to growing beetroot. Once you’ve read through it, you’ll know everything you need to be eating your own home-grown beetroots in no time.

Carrots. Sweet, tasty and packed with nutrients – it’s no wonder that they’re one of the nation’s most loved vegetables. While we can’t say for sure if they do help you see in the dark, we can all agree that carrots are an incredibly versatile vegetable. They’re a staple ingredient in various savoury favourites – as a popular side in a classic Sunday roast or finely grated in a summer salad, for example – yet just as tasty in sweet dishes, as the delicious carrot cake has proved time and time again.

But what do you need to know to growing your own supply of this tasty orange favourite?

Whether you’re just beginning your journey into gardening or a seasoned veteran, it’s no secret that growing carrots at home isn’t always an easy task. In this growing guide, we share with you the top tips and tricks for perfecting your homegrown goods, including advice on sowing carrot seeds, when to plant carrots and which are the best carrots to grow in the UK.

Onions are a beautifully versatile vegetable. Making the base for all your favourite recipes, including soups, sauces, curries and stews, onions can be enjoyed in so many ways. If you grow your own, you’ll always have an organic selection to hand. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about growing onions in your garden, polytunnel, or for a homegrown start-up.

Even if you’re a seasoned gardener and already know a thing or two about how to grow onions, it’s worth seeing if you can benefit from our handy tips, including the perks of growing onions in a polytunnel. Whether you’d like to start making your own delicious soups or you’re hoping to double your harvest next year, see below for our comprehensive onion growing guide.

Here at Premier Polytunnels we know that the price of products is important to our customers. It’s also important that the quality of the products you buy from us are of the highest quality, with many customers telling us that they need a strong polytunnel as it is extremely windy where they live.

When a bird goes “cheep” it wants attention – when a polytunnel goes cheap it needs attention! Quality is not cheap, but it does offer excellent value. This is why we work hard on sourcing the best quality materials for our products and building great working relationships with our suppliers.

Tomatoes are a type of nightshade plant and, contrary to popular belief, they are - in fact - a fruit. They are a versatile food forming the basis of many popular cuisines, including Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern and French. From blitzing them into soups and pasta sauces to adding slices to salads, the possibilities with tomatoes are endless.

Fresh, vine-ripened tomatoes have a much stronger flavour than the average salad variety, making them a tastier choice. As they’re one of the easiest crops to grow, harvesting your own tomatoes can be very rewarding.

Whether you want to stock up on homemade soup for winter, or simply enjoy freshly picked produce, our guide has everything you need to know about how to grow tomatoes.

Whether you have grown your own or are buying, October is the month for all things pumpkin.

Carving a pumpkin for Halloween and creating doorstep displays has become more and more popular, but many people just bin the remains. Did you know you can use every bit of the pumpkin with no waste at all?

To discover some great ideas for making use of every bit of your pumpkin, read on.