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Crocodile Trading's Marquees and Instant Shelters at Festivals Crocodile Trading supply nationwide a vast range of heavy duty marquees and Instant Shelters throughout festivals all over the UK. Our Commercial Quality Structures are popular as a base for many activities….Catering, Exhibiting retailing etc. Glastonbury Glastonbury is one of the many festivals in which our structures were used in fact one of our Extreme 50 Instant shelters was used as a stand shelling novelty hats, masks, wigs and many other fancy-dress items. As a retailer of instant shelters and marquees we are glad to see our structures up to good use....

Guide to growing shallots Like onions, shallots like a firm soil with a fine tilth. If you’ve rotovated or dug over, ‘heel and toe’ tread the soil firm prior to planting. They will tolerate acidic soil to about pH 5.5 but prefer neutral soils, pH 7.0 so lime if needed to reduce acidity. Prepare the soil by raking in 60 grams per square metre of general purpose fertiliser like fish, blood & bone or Growmore a week before planting out. https://www.crocodiletrading.co.uk/polytunnels/

Be Rid Of Those Nasty Pests Materials needed: Glass bowl Wine or juice Dish soap Cling film Tooth pick Step one – Fill the glass bowl 1/3 of the way full with your wine or juice. Next take a piece of the fruit that the flies are attracted to and put it into the bowl, this will attract the fruit flies. Step two – Put a few drops of dish soap in the bowl and give it a stir. Step three – Cover the bowl tightly with the cling film. Next poke holes in the cling film with the tooth...

Polytunnel Ground Anchor Kit A must have accessory when buying a polytunnel is the ground anchor kit. This offers great Anchorage for your polytunnel and simply skrews into the ground. The anchor kits also come with 2 rolls of tough hotspot tape which is used to stop the bolts rubbing on the cover and wearing it down. https://www.crocodiletrading.co.uk/tunnel-anchorage-installation-kit/

Cucamelon are tiny fruits the size of grapes except they are nothing like grapes. As you may have guessed by the unusual name they look like tiny watermelons and have taste of cucumber with lime. It turns out it is not a genetically grown fruit and it has been around in Mexico for centuries and is a delicacy. Cucamelons are easily grown and are sown in April they take two-three months till harvest and are great in salads and when pickled. These watermelon lookalikes don’t get any unwanted trouble from pests and are fine during drought due to its exotic...

Tomatoes If you use a polytunnel it may well be time to pick your tomatoes at long last. Once they are picked there are endless possibilities on what to use them for you could chop them up in a curry or make a tomato and mozzarella salad or even make a delicious pasta sauce.