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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Although its now not the biggest self sustaining greehgouse on the planet, have you seen Thanet Earth?
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each greenhouse is teh size of ten football pitches:
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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.