Eden project

[hippydave]

Well just got back from a fantastic day at the Eden project
So much to see and do.
If anyone is down. In Cornwall I recommend it highly a fantastic day out.
Tomorrow I'm visiting the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

[hippydave]

[carbonel11]

I went last week and was also impressed by what has been done. I would have happily stayed all day but dear daughter  wanted to get back for our park show and the amusements  ::) I wonder how they had mixed their veg up would work on the lottie, rotation would be a nightmare.

[cambourne7]

My brother and his family were there today as well we have been a few times its brilliant and were hoping to take Harriet in the next few months. Not been to the other gardens but i have been told its a good day.

[hippydave]

the planting looks very good but like you say the crop rotatio would be a nightmare, what i did enjoy was the large fig bushes outside the medetarian dome.
I tried a few and they were fantastic, but then thought that its stealing so didnt eat as many as i could have.
But i did buy a new fig bush as i lost mine last winter.

[caroline7758]

We went to both Eden and heligan in July for the first time- loved them both, but given the choice of which to go back to it would be Heligan. I hadn't realised the same guy was the driving force behind both the restoration of Heligan and the idea of the  Eden Project

[lincsyokel2]

Although its now not the biggest self sustaining greehgouse on the planet, have you seen Thanet Earth?



each greenhouse is teh size of ten football pitches:



When complete, its seven greenhouses will sprawl across 220 acres of Kent countryside, occupying the same area as six London Zoos. It's vegetable production on a collosal scale - 2.5 million tomatoes will be cropped every week of the year; 560,000 peppers and 700,000 cucumbers will be picked weekly between February and October.