People & Places visit

We were invited by the Eden Project’s People & Places Project to have a look around their nurseries near Pentewan.

One of their team was making a show display for the Spring Flower Show at Boconnoc on Saturday. They were making a ‘ Living Room’

Watering Lane Nurseries

Giant Greenhouses – makes Boot Up! look a bit small! They were originally built to grow the tall tropical rain forest now in the Tropical Biome at Eden.

Some of the clients pricking out the valuable lettuce crop for the Eden canteen

The lettuce growing

ahhhh

Lettuce is the main cash crop

A living air plant that will make the curtains for the living room display

The Fields
Spring onion crop in a huge polytunnel

Dodging the sprinklers
and of course we finished the day with a working lunch at Charelstown Harbour. Its a hard life!