Out with the old, in with the new..................

Although our first crops weren't planted until mid October, we are now preparing to pull these out in preparation for replanting in July. The crops were always going to be something of a trial - and try us they did! - but we are now looking to replant in July to fit in with a more traditional industry based planting time. This will also mean that the crops will more closely align with the student timetables in terms of the structured full time training courses that we offer. So what are we replanting with? We will be replanting Compartment 2 with Truss and Cocktail Tomatoes, and Compartment 1 with Capsicums and a small trial of Aubergines. Our plants are currently being propagated by specialist growers Trandos, and we are using seed from our industry partner Rijk Zwaan. In the next few weeks we will be updating the blog with details of all the varieties that we will be using. Our green waste will be taken to a green waste facility, whilst our Groslabs are going to be used as  trial in conjunction with Grodan which will be looking at the composting of the growing medium. This project is also being driven by one of our Outbound Mobility project students, and details can be found on the link on the right of this site.