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[GarethM]

As the saying goes farmers buy retail and sell wholesale.

 

Was that selling to the big boys or Aldi & Lidl, they seem to be a bit better at buying UK from what I see and hear ?.

[Peasgood]

Generally refused to deal with any supermarkets as they are nothing but twisters.

Was supplying wholesale markets but as they supplied the greengrocers that the supermarkets put out of business even the wholesale market disappeared. 

I still grow and produce on a small scale because I enjoy it. I have top uality stuff and people want it so no trouble selling and no advertising needed.

[openspaceman]

13 hours ago, daveatdave said:

yes, nothing left to heat them if they shut Drax the greenhouses may shut as well as it will be too expensive to heat them. 

A long time ago much was made of tomato growing using waste heat from Tolimore (spelling?) distillery.

 

My guess is cheap air transport put paid to growing vegetables under glass.

 

Back in the 70s New Scientist proposed converting redundant supertankers to grow tomatoes with a constantly rotating rack system, planting up here then cruising to the equator till ripening started and returning home.

[GarethM]

Those pirates would have a heat attack if they managed to snag a tomato tanker.

 

We be rich captain, not Saudi rich but Heinz.

[Peasgood]

28 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

My guess is cheap air transport put paid to growing vegetables under glass.

I'd say it was the EU subsidising road network improvements, particularly the ones between Spain and here. Once that was improved the floodgates were open to produce that was so much easier to grow in Spain than here. We always had to compete with them but their produce was ruined by time it got here on the old road network.

We can and do still produce plenty of salad crops in this country and you could have them at this time of year too. The energy prices rocketed and supermarkets refused to up their prices so the growers simply didn't plant the crop, why would they.

On the continent the supermarkets adjust their prices according to supply and demand as most normal workplaces do, UK supermarkets are so inflexible any shortages be it salad crops or fresh eggs are entirely their fault.

[trigger_andy]

6 hours ago, GarethM said:

Time and decay left it harmless.

Tell that to the Romans.  

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Tell that to the Romans.  

What did the Romans ever do for us…

 

 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

What did the Romans ever do for us…

 

 

Classic! Weird how life imitates art though. 

 

 

[Stere]

Prefer swedes to turnips & they seem easier to grow as less bolt prone.

 

Fuskahsima water being released out the sea is supposedly safe now as  being filtered apart from the tritium which can't be removed but which they say they are gonna dilute  down to safe lvls (its occurs naturally)

 

Thats the offical version anyway.

 

ALPS Treated Water Q&A / METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

WWW.METI.GO.JP

 

I reckon  they are probably doing a better job than sellafield has/does.

[GarethM]

Tell that to the nice people opposite Le Hague. Strange how it points towards ze English.

Edited February 25, 2023 by GarethM