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Old 26-01-2014, 10:33 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Sad day for Guernsey
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All year round tomatoes are gonna have to be GM'd...are they not?

No, when climate conditions are right,staggered planting can provide
that (even under artificial heat and light). Year-round tomatoes were in
UK supermarkets decades before genetic modifications.

They are perennial plants in their country of origin.

Interesting...... do you know of any very large producers in Scotland.....?
North Wales....?
North of England....?
If not...why not?

Latitude is not a limitation to growing tomatoes; only the economics
of production costs.

Clyde Valley in Scotland was a major commercial producer of hothouse
tomatoes, a few decades ago when oil/power to heat them was cheap.

Janet.
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