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I got to have another look around the #UniversityofExeter's #hydroponic greenhouse today - these are the herb plants (basil, coriander and parsley mostly). They focus on high value crops for fancy graduation dinners and the like, like herbs, edible flowers, salads and heritage tomatoes because it wouldn't be cost efficient (in terms of staff time rather than materials) to do bulk crops like potatoes. Link in earlier post
Plastic tubes stacked like shelves on racks in the greenhouse, with an individual herb plant growing in evenly spaced cutouts in each. Curved pipes connect the tubes, clearly handmade because they're wrapped in Duck tape to maintain the shape. Behind the racks of shelving, not particularly clearly visible, is the reservoir tank and the pump that pumps nutrient-enriched water to the top tube from which it cascades down
A close up of one of the racks of basil plants
#universityofexeter #hydroponic

I got a chance to have a nosy round the #UniversityofExeter's #hydroponic greenhouse yesterday, that grows some food served on campus. Very cool!

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/campusservices/eatandshop/oureffect/kitchengarden/
The interior of the greenhouse showing cucumbers growing in the foreground (intercropped with nasturtiums to intercept blackfly) and tomatoes in the background. Each plant is growing our of its own aperture in an enclosed plastic tunnel supported on a wooden frame, and twining up strings to the glass roof
#universityofexeter #hydroponic

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