I love it when a plan sort of comes together even if it is all a bit synchronistic. The allotments are getting a delivery of horse poo this morning, straight from her maj Liz. All good stuff, but it does need to rot down for a year or so. That's a long time but I've had a bit of a brain wave; I'll use some of it to make a hot bed like the Victorian gardeners used to do to bring on veg and fruit early.
I had a dig around on the internet and turned up some interesting pages such as @ and also a very informative site @.
These cover all the basics. And then another layer of synchronicity was added when I looked through the recent blog postings on my blog roll and found this at Our Happy Acres where the latest post was about cold frames.
Which all fits rather nicely into building the lights to go on top of the hot beds to keep the heat in.
And what plants to force on? Well, I think I'll try strawberries and checking out how to force strawbs I found this book on google books .
This book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening might be worthwhile checking out for other nuggets of info.
But for the moment, I think I'll try strawberries, and then use the reduced heap to grow on melons, probably under the lights, as suggested here, depending on how hot the summer might be. A nice one might be Petit Gris de Rennes @, and Thompson & Morgan seem to have some nice melons. I must be maturing not a fnaaar in sight, doh!
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