General Ben in The Greenhouse Theatre

Ben has sent a runner with word that his Greenhouse and Chilli blogs have been updated on the Plantasia website. Strategically speaking General Ben is busy devising and implementing grow plans for the year to come. His eye is also on the tactical minutiae of pest countermeasures. To this effect the blog includes Ben’s preferred methods in steeling his plants for battles to come. It seems that natural plant protection products and recruiting the locals (spiders etc) as allies are order of the day.

Away from the frontline Ben’s surgeon alter-ego has been splicing and dusting away to create some intriguing hybrid chilli varieties by hand pollination. By all accounts there’s a riot of colours, intensities and sweetnesseses going on down there.

As the Summer Festival approaches the greenhouse looks frankly stunning! The place currently abounds with industry big hitters whose products form this year’s displays and crop production. Some innovative combinations of plant varieties, mediums, feeds and additives should yield fascinating results.

Read the blog updates in full here