One approach is to take a leaf out of the Permaculture book and go into the 3rd dimension. Grow the plants up the garden fence or even up rolls of vertical netting – which is actually what we do here at the glasshouses. [...]
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We’ve found by experiment that a really suitable variety for us is Maskotka which is a sprawly bush variety which produces cherry tomatoes of a good flavour. Most important for us is that it’s pretty early and means that we can snatch a crop before the blight kicks in. [...] 
Norman Baker MP opening the reservoir Well the promised launch of the reservoir went off – quite successfully really despite the lack of rain. It’s been taunting us for weeks – the clouds roll in, they land on Lewes, on Haywards Heath, on Uckfield and Tonbridge wells – but not on us. However we had fixed upon 3rd June for the Launch date. The met office average rainfall promised us 1000 cu m from 150 mm of rain in March April and May so we thought we would be safe enough with a full reservoir. But in the event [...] Update on the Fletching Glasshouses rainwater harvesting project [...] Today is the busiest day of the year. We have veg packs going out, the guys are putting the overflows into the reservoir and we’ve all been in since 5.30 shipping mothers day plants. We hope to ship over 800 today so thanks to you all. Here’s some of the activity Plants Making a flowering basket Packing Plants for Mothers Day Meanwhile reservoir building goes on Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...] 
People have also often asked me what varieties do we use ourselves. For squash we’ve planted Kuri, Blue Ballet, winter butternut, sweet lightning and delicata. These last two were our best sellers last year. [...] We’ve just planted out some leeks in the glasshouse. As commercial growers we need to make sure that the spacing is right so as to deliver the optimum yield and make the plants easy to weed. We use a bamboo grid to plant them at approx 13cm centres which means we can use the 8cm small wolf tools – hoes, rakes etc to keep the plants clean. [...] 
we’ve been planning to create a reservoir in the little valley in front of the house. It should hold about 800 cubic meters and save us around £5000 a year. We know we’re doing the right thing because every time we go to a horticultural conference most of the speakers are talking about the need to save water. [...] |
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