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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!
:)

Lots of matas in there, bet it looks like a little Holland from the air.

Yes - one knows that Toms can go to 20'. We must try not to despair!!

Next greenhouse for my garden?

;)

I suppose we can only wish?

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.

just out of curiosity, is that near Cantley? it's the only sugar beet factory I know of in Norfolk

I shall never forget the smell of a beet factory. Almost put me off sugar!

wissington, near downham  market