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Sounds like a good bloke to know, what variety of seed potatoes is he giving you? I thought I heard about the hotbed thing and sure enough, Charles dowding has done it before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhPh4sYCW5Q
Also seem to remember a video he did where he built a hod bed and grew carrots outside in the middle of winter.
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Popped into see the farmer where I works personal polytunnel and ‘allotment’ today. It’s a commercial poly about 20 x 8m, about half of which is for his fruit n veg, along with a further 8 x 8m cage outside made of steel mesh to keep the birds out(it’s on the edge of a corn field).
It was a balmy 35° in there today, he’s already had 2 crops of large lettuces and his toms and beans are already miles ahead of anything I’ve seen. It has some passive venting and watering all made with bits lying around the farm, all gravity/bimetallic powered. I’ve been in before but never noticed that under his work/seedling benches are troughs of rotting compost/manure which are sealed so they heat the seedbeds above. Genius.
I would take pics but he’s slightly mad and pretty advanced in years so wouldn’t want to offend.
Got a bunch of lettuce and bean seedlings in return for a bit of forklifting this morning and he’s put aside a dozen or so tomatoes for me once the rain eases up along with a bunch of cucumbers. He also provided all our seed potatoes this year.
I gave him a bunch of chilli seedlings but apparently they’re ‘a bit foreign but I think the grandchildren might eat them’
Pays to keep yer workshop landlord on side.