Good grief Geordie, have a sit down and rest for a bit!!!!

Seriously though, I agree with most of what you have said. However, from my point of view, the choice is simple and I am not willing to take on the expense (both financially and environmentally) of providing expensive lighting / heating to bring crops in at un-naturally early times. I do have a heater in the greenhouse to use in espeically cold periods (as at present) to keep certain plants going but I limit the amount of time this is going (less than a week of nights during last winter). I try to avoid buying food that is out of season or grown using artificial stimulants as I simply don't see the point, what's wrong with eating what is available and looking forward to the next crop at the right time. I'm not knocking anybody starting things off a bit early and risking tender plants against the last frost, that's all part of the game. Indeed a heated propogator just to get things moving doesn't seem unreasonable. However, if you need to provide additional and heat throughout the major part of a plant's life then surely you're growing the wrong crop for that time of year / geographic location, I'll never understand the need to crop tomatoes in May in the UK.

PS - apologies to anybody who does this, just it's certainly not for me.

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