Great progress at Todmorden High School

At the end of April we visited Steve and Danny at Todmorden and were amazed at the size of the plants in their greenhouse! They’re currently growing cucumbers, tomatoes and chillies in their custom-built facility which was funded with National Lottery money. Not only does the greenhouse provide a fantastic ‘hands on’ classroom for their BTEC Horticulture students, it is also a commercial venture as any produce that isn’t used in the school kitchens is sold to local restaurants.

Amongst the plants potted in regular compost and coir are some grown in experimental substrates like cut up denim and plant reed. As you can see, they’re doing extremely well. It just goes to show that by providing plants with water and food whenever they require it, you can grow in near enough anything!

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