The heating used in the frames does only seem to be/have been horse manure
and seemingly with little real headroom unless further frames can be
positioned on top as needed.
The old workers' hovels are now changing hands in excess of £200,000 a
time and delightfully modernised but not greatly extended.
Best Wishes.
"martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:16:24 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

/4/04 9:14


Hello,

Has anyone had experience growing pineapples in the uk? In the garden
centre it said that although they are the commercial variety, it does
not get hot enough to ripen them here and they should be grown for
ornament only. Would a greenhouse not get hot enough? What temperature
do they need.

Thanks.

I think the ones that were grown in the gardens of great houses years
ago,
were grown in frames which I seem to remember learning were heated by the
use of copious amounts of rotting manure.

The were heated by vast boilers that minions stoked day and night for
sod all.


Of course, those were the days
when everyone kept horses, so.....

and minions lived in a shoe box in the gutter.