Thanet Earth - the way to the future?
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:49 pm
What are your views on Thanet Earth 
But i still prefer my greenhouse.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:01 pm
I would rather see that then acres of tarmac.
But i still prefer my greenhouse.
But i still prefer my greenhouse.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:33 pm
...and I was grumbling about having to tie in 50 tomato plants 
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:08 pm
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?
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:29 pm
I had noticed the name was rather misleading - Earth is the one thing they'll be trying not to use 
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:46 am
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
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
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:55 pm
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.
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:34 pm
oldherbaceous wrote: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?
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:26 am
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.
Old Codger doesn't like modern things like big greenhouses, he prefers just to tend the land.