Brill View Farm goes potty!

This month the farm has been a hive of activity as we pot up our plants and move them into the poly tunnels. There’s been growing media arriving by the truck load (more on that later) and we continue to propagate herbs by the thousand! We’re growing a variety of crops this season; tomatoes, various chillies and aubergines. However, the main section of the growing area will be herbs, including; Thai basil (sweet and spicy varieties) and Vietnamese coriander. This will be a commercial scale operation and we’ll be selling the produce via Thai Herbs UK.

We’ve been propagating and raising young plants on a large scale using our easy2GO Kit. We take a regular garden tray and fill it with around and 4cm of Seramis (granulated clay media), the easy2GO is placed in the corner of the tray and attached to a reservoir filled with nutrient enriched water. Seed trays and small pots filled with compost are placed onto the Seramis. The easy2GO fills the tray to 2cm of water and the Seramis then gently wicks the moisture up into the compost and keeps the seedlings watered. At last count we had around 20 garden trays filled with young plants! As you can see, it works a treat.

Throughout the growing season we’ll be trialling growing media from various manufacturers who have kindly donated their mixes for our head to head trial. Special mentions to; Atami, Canna, FytoCell, LS Systems, Plagron and Plant Magic. Here’s a few snaps of the trial at the planting out stage.

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