Thanet Earth - the way to the future?

[alan refail]

What are your views on Thanet Earth

[oldherbaceous]

I would rather see that then acres of tarmac.

But i still prefer my greenhouse.

[Chantal]

...and I was grumbling about having to tie in 50 tomato plants

[Geoff]

We give our spare salad to regular buyers of bags of washed supermarket salad. They say they like ours because it tastes of something. Thanet Earth I believe is going to be hydroponic, like the majority of commercial salad production, does that mean there is going to be even more tasteless leaves in the supermarkets?

[alan refail]

I had noticed the name was rather misleading - Earth is the one thing they'll be trying not to use

[vivienz]

Love it or loathe it, it's very impressive, and looks straight out of science fiction.
I've seen similar set ups when I've been in Holland - I suppose what it does do is well and truly remind that growing food is an industry. Mind you, I bet they don't suffer from blight!
That said, I would still challenge anyone with a decent number of taste buds to say they prefer out of season, greenhouse grown produce to the seasonal, unforced delights from an allotment.
Vivien

[Johnboy]

The new range of Supermarket grown on the vine have a very good taste but the ones that are produced hydroponically will be the translucent varieties with no taste and will go rotten before they would ripen.
Here there is a battle raging over 4 Wind turbines and protesters worrying that from 30 KM there will be 4 matchsticks on the horizon.
I was not allowed to have greenhouses over 30 years ago and had to have poly-tunnels instead. All I wanted were 6. 60ftx30ft greenhouses and even today I doubt if the necessary permission would be granted.
I simple fail to understand the planning laws in this country.
I wonder what Monty Don who was head of the anti poly-tunnel lobby in the county make of this lot.
No doubt as chairman of the Soil Association he will have something to say. I might even agree with him and that will be a first.
JB.

[peter]

I would rather see that then acres of tarmac.

But i still prefer my greenhouse.

OH I thought that WAS your greenhouse

Are you saying that it's Old Codger's?

[oldherbaceous]

Morning Peter, i was starting to wonder where you had got to.

Old Codger doesn't like modern things like big greenhouses, he prefers just to tend the land.