Seamus Bradley

It has been severely dry here up until now.

You can see they're flowering.

They shouldn't be flowering because they're only about half the size or even a third of the size they should be.

It's nearly stress response.

I'd say it'll be okay though now with this rain.

Yeah, if it comes properly.

But as you can see, it's not really...

letting it down much yeah that's just a mixed bit of chard and celery a bit of sweet corn and that's more of a novelty crop than a high value crop because it isn't very productive here just doesn't produce much

The plot in its entirety is two acres, but what I'm using here, that's 25 meters, so what would that be across?

40?

Yeah.

25 by 40, thousand square meters, like so a quarter of an acre.

And then the tunnel, a bit of space in the tunnel as well.

And a few apple trees down behind and a few fruit trees here.

But that's the total area.

And then I'm producing boxes off this and the tunnels for about 10, 12 boxes from June to February or so.

That long?

Yeah, well, it was nine months, but... That's pretty impressive now, Seamus.

I mean... Well, they'll be getting fed up with beetroot by the end of it, but... LAUGHTER

No, there's a value in it.