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Tomatoes - taking care
I am so careful when potting on to three inch pots and then the ten inch pots - handling with kid-gloves. There was a programme on TV last week about mechanisation/automation of horticulture - absolutely fascinating. It was interesting to see the tomatoes being planted in the Channel Islands - in rows in the fields - as per old days. Two people - one with a spade made a "slot" - second dropped/threw in a plant from the bunch in his hand - first person "heeled" in. Job done!! - next plant !! |
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Tomatoes - taking care
On 2009-04-30 23:26:14 +0100, Judith Smith said:
I am so careful when potting on to three inch pots and then the ten inch pots - handling with kid-gloves. There was a programme on TV last week about mechanisation/automation of horticulture - absolutely fascinating. It was interesting to see the tomatoes being planted in the Channel Islands - in rows in the fields - as per old days. Two people - one with a spade made a "slot" - second dropped/threw in a plant from the bunch in his hand - first person "heeled" in. Job done!! - next plant !! I remember seeing those fields when I was a child. There were rows of crosses the growers tied the tomatoes into as the vines grew and because I was born just after the war, I somehow associated them with dead soldiers and the churchyard my Rector grandfather presided over, just down the hill! I don't think anyone in that parish grows tomatoes that way any more. The last fields were still there up to about 3 years ago but last time I drove that way they'd been cleared. Can you, by any chance, remember which channel that programme was on? I'd love to see if I can watch it on my computer. Thinking of mechanisation in horticulture, it was and is, quite something to watch a plough being pulled up a côtil (very steep piece of land) by a winch on a tractor parked at the top. The workers, following behind planting potatoes, look like ants swarming over the soil. -- -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials South Devon |
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Tomatoes - taking care
On Fri, 1 May 2009 07:22:19 +0100, Sacha wrote:
snip Can you, by any chance, remember which channel that programme was on? I'd love to see if I can watch it on my computer. BBC4 There is another episode tonight - Wednesday - 9:00 pm Mud Sweat and Tractors. |
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Tomatoes - taking care
On 2009-05-06 13:13:23 +0100, Judith Smith said:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 07:22:19 +0100, Sacha wrote: snip Can you, by any chance, remember which channel that programme was on? I'd love to see if I can watch it on my computer. BBC4 There is another episode tonight - Wednesday - 9:00 pm Mud Sweat and Tractors. Thanks, Judith. I'll see if I can find the Jersey bit and will point our remote control at that tonight. I think my husband would enjoy it a lot more than most of what's on offer just now! -- -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials South Devon |
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