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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tonybloke on April 24, 2008, 22:36:59
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here's a photo taken on a college visit today, inside an 11 hectare greenhouse, growing 5% of british commercial tomatoes, hydroponically, on the back of a sugar beet factory in norfolk
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That's some glasshouse, we ahave 175 plots and only cover 11 acres!
:)
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Lots of matas in there, bet it looks like a little Holland from the air.
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Yes - one knows that Toms can go to 20'. We must try not to despair!!
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Next greenhouse for my garden?
;)
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I suppose we can only wish?
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there are 250 thousand plants in there. 10 varieties. the plants reach about 30 feet in length, but by means of strings and training are always at a height to allow easy picking. Bumblebees for pollination, NO poisons, predators in good supply.
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just out of curiosity, is that near Cantley? it's the only sugar beet factory I know of in Norfolk
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I shall never forget the smell of a beet factory. Almost put me off sugar!
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wissington, near downham market