When it's complete, Thanet Earth will be the UK's largest single production site growing salad crops under glass. By 'salads' we mean tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers (not leafy greens such as lettuce).
We have planning permission for 7 commercial greenhouses, and anticipate that each will be 'monocrop' planted Ð so growing just one product, but possibly growing a number of different varieties of that product. For example, the pepper greenhouse currently grows a mixture of red, yellow, orange and green bell peppers, with potential to add mini peppers and the supersweet varieties if they wish.
The tomato greenhouse currently grows nine different varieties Ð from large vine tomatoes down to baby plum, Sunstream and the deliciously sweet little Piccolo variety.
No definite decision has yet been reached on timetable for construction of the remaining greenhouses, or on the crops they will grow.
