Vegetables in a changing climate
Devon has a very mild climate with summer heat and winter chill moderated by the sea but even here we see the climate changing. This June it was so hot that my clay soil dried out to dust after a wet winter, temperatures in the polytunnel went over 50C.…
Robot Hayes allotments
I am renting out 100 sq m allotments on a gentle south facing slope of Pebblebeds soil on the west edge of Aylesbeare, Devon. The field has been a sheep run and hayfield for many years and not treated with chemicals. I bought it last year as place to…
Can robots save UK horticulture ?
Growing food was for thousands of years, and in much of the world still is, a set of backbreaking monotonous but skilled tasks. It was done by humans in all weathers from scorching to freezing from burning dry to continuously coal and soaked. It was…
Robots on the Strawberry Highway
It was very good to wake up on Sunday to hear a programme about tests of robots to track up and down rows of hydroponic strawberries killing off powdery mildew with UV light, no pesticides needed. Click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ydnb I…