Sunday 22 May 2016

Living opposite a commercial flower growing field


You may think living opposite a commercial flower field would look like this:Image result for flower field


And we do see some fields like this in Norfolk where they are growing on bulbs. But for cut flowers what you get is a lot of green, a great deal of spraying and then early in the mornings before much colour can be seen you get -
A gaggle of cars, about 20 people and a LOO! No idea of nationality, I guess Eastern European but who ever they are, they work really hard at this. 7 am till 3 pm at least, in fog, damp or sun. Eventually a tractor and trailer comes down from the main buildings about a mile away and takes the crop away.


The wire cages are designed to protect the bunches and over 3 days we have counted about 30 cages have gone.

 So if you see red Sweet Williams in the supermarkets this next week - they probably came from here!

4 comments:

  1. It's interesting to see how such large flower farms operate. The flowers are beautiful, but that farm is not exactly a country dream.

    (Hoping that the spraying is not dangerous to your own health!)

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    1. All the fields (cereal and potatoes mostly) get sprayed regularly - we always look for the wind direction and get out of the way. It is more industrial than you would think.

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    2. I loved my grandads sweet Williams but hated the earwigs that they always contained. I've seen the workers in the fields of Lincolnshire and its backbreaking work.

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    3. We often wonder what can be so bad that people come across Europe to do this work? I admire them for their stamina.

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